In this intimate and moving essay, Gabrielle Bellot decides she needs to stop allowing others to define her.
Body Image
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Our Bodies, Our Selves
Roxane Gay tapped 24 writers to address what it’s like to live in an “unruly” body today.
Posted inEditor's Pick
You Are What You Hear
A personal essay in which Pauline Campos writes about trying to forget the harsh words she heard about her body as a child, and to avoid passing along her body shame to her young daughter.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
You Are What You Hear
Pauline Campos tries to forget the harsh words that shaped her understanding of her body growing up — for her daughter’s sake, and her own.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
You Are What You Hear
Pauline Campos tries to forget the harsh words that shaped her understanding of her body growing up — for her daughter’s sake, and her own.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
A Fat Body and a Fat Mind: On Taking Up Space, Unapologetically
Carmen Maria Machado’s stunning essay in Guernica on the power of women who take up space is an important read for people of any size.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, read stories by Mark MacKinnon, Rachel Cusk, Carmen Maria Machado, Suketu Mehta, and an excerpt from Bill Hayes.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
Eating In Public Is a Spectator Sport When You’re Fat
After navigating a lifetime of being fat (and ashamed) in the US, Jonatha Kottler moved to the Netherlands and found a whole new universe of exclusion.