Results for: no fucks to give
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When I Stopped Apologizing for My Fatness, I Started to Heal
I had to figure out what it meant to reconnect with a body I’d always been afraid of.
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Fat Femmes On How They Show Their Queerness Through Fashion
10 years ago I looked in the mirror and was scared I looked straight. Now I can’t see anything besides a very slutty dyke.
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New Guidelines on Childhood “Obesity” Represent Latest Big Pharma Attacks on Fat Kids
The weight loss industry — not necessarily the act of weight loss in and of itself — is extremely fatphobic and anti-fat.
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Positions for Fat Sex in All of Its Holiness
In short, if you know, you know: fat sex is church. Here are some of the positions that have taken me there when I knew I needed to be lifted in prayer.
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Rethinking the Power of Movement, One Barbell at a Time
Up until a few months ago, I never felt very strong. I was a fat kid who grew into a fat teenager, and now I’m a fat adult.
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Fast Fashion Diaries — Fat Femmes On the Difficulties of Curating an Ethical Wardrobe
“Fat and poor people don’t have the easiest access to clothing that makes us feel fly AND is affordable.”
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Puberty, Gym Class & Aeropostale — Fat Femmes On Their Childhood Style
“It sounds like we were all told by others that we were too big as children — rather than actually feeling that way ourselves?”
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The Drop: Lizzo’s “Watch Out for the Big Grrrls” has Depth, Drama — and So Much Ass
Dani Janae and Shelli Nicole chat through their thoughts on Lizzo’s new reality series that’s for the big girls!!
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When Thin is a Trans Requirement
Body fat is central to how we perceive gender. So what does that mean if you’re a trans person?
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Anatomy Of A Mango: Skin
There is a different level of intimacy and affirmation that I have found when having sex with other fat people. Thin people approach the fat body like a series of insecurities. They see the swell of a stomach or rolls of fat on the back and assume that you hate those parts of your body. When another fat person touches me, it is to be made whole.
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Wild, Fat, Queer and Black: How I Became Free In The Mountains And Never Left
If you have ever met a mountain, you know that can’t nobody really own a mountain because they are too majestic, too strong, too beautiful to be tamed or owned. So I guess mountains are kinda like Black folk.
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Anatomy of a Mango: Flesh
It seems contradictory to say I learned how to view my body as my own by sharing it with strangers and friends, but it is a truth that I revel in. What I love and learn about these encounters are the parameters of my body, its strengths, and boundaries, what pleases it.
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Anatomy of a Mango: Pit
Even one-night-stands have a spirit to them, but I wasn’t willing to confront that until I stopped drinking. When I did, I was finally able to place my mind right within my body, to touch and be touched without fear. Having sober sex was a way for me to unravel the contempt I felt around my body and my sexuality.
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Insta Crush: Jamie Thrower, the Fat Femme Behind Studio XIII Photography, Creates Visual Love Letters to Our Community
“I believe that stepping in front of a camera is one of the most vulnerable things you can do, and so I want everyone who allows me the honor of photographing them to feel celebrated and seen and loved.”
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Like a Little Act of Vengeance: F*cking While Fat
Fuck. While fat. Don’t wait.
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How We Feel About Being Fat
A reader requested a roundtable where Autostraddle’s fat staff talk about how fatness, diet culture, and body positivity, relate to our queerness, identity, and gender. We aim to please, so here we are!
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La Boda Jota #3: What’s a Fat Tomboy Femme to Wear on Her Wedding Day?
The first question people asked me when I got engaged was what I was going to wear to the wedding. My impulse reaction was to blurt out, “how the fuck should I know?”
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PHOTOESSAY: Shoog & Zaire on Proving the Divinity Of Fat Folks
“I came to you in a state of exhaustion with all these things that have been weighing on me for so long and I wanted to find a way to celebrate myself.”
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Find Your Fit: The Femme Boi Tired of Translating Masculine Looks for Fat Bodies
“My gender, in a few words: femme boi, domestic witch, cry baby, plant mom.”
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An Ode to Fat Tomboy Femmes: Effortlessly Cool Plus-Size Outfits
I’m still defining “tomboy femme” style for myself but it gets exponentially harder to find inspiration when all I see is fashion for white, thin bodies. I’m a fat tomboy femme of color and I deserve cute outfits!