it's times like these.

Everybody, Every Body: the Media’s Erasure of Fat Girls 

this is a really articulate way of describing why despite being a cisgendered woman with 100% cisgender privilege, I still have extreme issues with seeing myself as a woman.

(via ladiebear)

kaye wrote this and kaye is really amazing and everyone should follow kaye  

(via ericclappy)

HOLY SHIT THE NOTES ON THIS….

(via khaleesi)

For years, I would not eat in public. I even had a problem eating in front of some members of my family; the more judgmental ones. 

(via boysinperil)

You are not alone in that. I used to not be able to eat at family dinners or during school lunches. There were long periods of time where the only time I ate were after school snacks. I still have trouble eating at all sometimes. I have to remember and sometimes force myself to eat. 

(via ifmusicisthevictim)

Yep. I’m still incredibly conscious of what and how I eat in public, because if you’re fat, what you’re eating and how you’re eating it is everyone’s business. This particularly sucked for the few years where breakfast and lunch at school were pretty much the only thing I got to eat, because while I wanted to load up on the carbs and the filling stuff, people mooing at me and dumping their spare food on my plate just wasn’t worth it, so I ate fruit, and veggies, and carefully modulated how I ate the actual entree depending on what it was.

I still have some really fucked up food issues because of it.

(via stackedcrooked)

I’m better about it than I used to be, but if it’s a buffet or potluck situation (and I’m a lesbian, for fuck’s sake, everything is a potluck) then I’m tremendously self-conscious about what I’m taking and how much. 

(via stackedcrooked)