Really Big Love
Marianne Kirby writes the popular fat acceptance blog The Rotund and is the co-author of Lessons From the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body. She writes, makes art, and lives fat and happy in Orlando, Fl.
More to Love, a plus-size version of The Bachelor, premieres Tuesday night on Fox. But what does showing curvy women in the pursuit of love add to the American obesity debate?
TV's New Super-Sized Heroine
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
Lifetime's new hit Drop Dead Diva celebrates the life of an adorable plus-size woman. But does it promote positive body images in an obesity-obsessed culture?
The Fat Wars
Marisa Meltzer is coauthor of How Sassy Changed My Life. Her next book Girl Power will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in February.
Anna Wintour's remarks about Oprah's weight sent fat-acceptance activists into overdrive this week. Marisa Meltzer writes about the fat-shionista backlash, including a bestselling new book-Lessons From the Fat-O-Sphere-that argues that the best diet is no diet at all.
You'd Be So Pretty If...
Dara Chadwick is the author of You’d Be So Pretty If…Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies—Even When We Don’t Love Our Own, which grew out of her experience as Shape magazine’s 2007 Weight-Loss Diary columnist. A former magazine staff editor, she’s a New England-based freelance journalist specializing in health, wellness and lifestyle topics.
No Mother's Day would be complete without one key emotion: guilt. Dara Chadwick, author of You'd Be So Pretty If...: Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies-Even When We Don't Love Our Own explores how moms' subtle behaviors shape their daughters feelings about weight and body image.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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