#virgie tovar

[shaftking]

I don’t think I’ll ever be over how self obsessed that cake video that Virgie Tovar made was.

#personal #virgie tovar

[writingascript]

#gordita chronicles #Virgie Tovar #fat positive

[thatstormygeek]

#fatphobia #virgie tovar

[rotationalsymmetry]

"We know how to play along, not stand out, and acquiesce to the behavior of the majority. Even if charting our own course might feel better, it is unfamiliar and therefore intimidating."

#more virgie tovar

[imeverywoman420]

I have no evidence for this but i think a lot of buzzfeed adjacent millenial liberal/“leftist” content is paid for by right wing elites to make leftist causes look stupid. People like virgie tovar, who outright deny science and only care about makeup sponsorships and “feeling beautiful”, get put as the face of all the leftist/liberal cringe compilations u see.

[chubbymuffinclub]

"Today I no longer believe that I should be expected to try to lose weight just because I’m fat, and I know that science doesn’t back weight-loss either. I’ve been anti-diet and fat-positive for almost 13 years. My husband-to-be is fat positive, too. Both of our families know all about where we stand on the matter of body size. I love that I get to be a plus-size bride and that my engagement photos and wedding photos will document me as I actually exist — double chin and all."

#anti diet #fat positive #fat liberation #marriage #wedding #plus size #fat #bride

[lifeinsillypictures]

"The takeaway for me was that no matter what the beauty standard is, women will die to achieve it in a culture where they are taught that their worth and their access to love and humanity is based on that beauty"

- Virgie Tovar, a San Francisco-based author and public speaker whose work centers on ending weight-based discrimination.

#check the article from the source if you're interesting in such a topic #it's very informative! #girl beauty #self love #self improvement #beauty standarts #feminism #eating disoder recovery #eating disoder thoughts #eating disorder

[os1to]

~about this blog~

!!dni if: IN RECOVER (most important, please get better and get off of this site!), anti thinspo/anything of the sort, part of the haes movement (or basically if you believe in anything that tess holida, virgie tovar, marissa mathews or anyone else in that community says), maps, zoophiles, xenogender users, dreamsexual/dreamgender, mspec sexuality or anything that completely mocks the lgbtq+ community and trans people.

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..i'm not pro ana or anything of the sort, i'm just here because i've lost any sense of concern or care for my mental and physical health and i need a place to belong to

..i'm a minor and i'd prefer ppl under 18 but idrc

.. this is literally just my log and basically a diary to keep my fatass in line. i'll post tips and how i've been doing, subliminals i use and things like that

..eng/ελλ

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height: 5'1

sw: 116 lbs

cw: 109 lbs

gw: 100 lbs

ugw: 65-70 lbs

#anamia #anam1a #th1nspo #thinspo #ed #an0rexic #notprojustusingthetags #notpro4n4 #not pr0 mia #not pr0 4na #tw ana thoughts #ana diary #bullimik #bullimix #tw 3d #cw #tw ana diary

[fierceawakening]

Yeah, Tumblr gets very hung up on bad.

Where I personally, like. A big part of my work in therapy is my therapist going “you can say not just that that isn’t right for you but that you straight up think it’s bad! You’re allowed not to qualify your opinions by thinking of every exception! It’s okay! You’re allowed to think some things just suck!”

Then I go on here again, and ring around the Rosie about what bad means. It means my ass don’t like it. Go from there.

So I think for me there’s two questions:

Are PEOPLE who eat junk food bad?

No. That’s everybody.

Is junk food bad?

Well… yeah? Probably?

It’s made by companies under capitalism, and it’s designed principally as a way of transmitting flavors and textures rather than nutrients (though it does, as someone is sure to shout in a reply if I fail to mention this, have some.)

It’s to the benefit of the people making it, who want money, to encourage you to consume a lot of it, because the more of it you buy and the more often you do so the more you line their pockets.

THEY may well not even be fat! THEY may be skinny men in suits who think of you as a stupid pig with all the fatphobia you hate, but they make bank off you, and that’s all they need you for.

This is in contrast to… like… a piece of broccoli. Which is just… kind of… There?

I mean, it’s also grown by agribusiness, so there’s not the same kind of shady shit but surely there’s some. Mostly it’s just being a living dude and growing and getting harvested though.

Farmers will like it if you eat more, but there’s no chemical analysis going on to make sure you take another bite, not in the same way.

Similarly:

Are cutters bad?

No. They’re in pain.

Is cutting bad?

Yeah, probably. Lots of people who do it feel ashamed and not helped by it, and this is especially rough if you end up with visible scars.

Is it possible for someone to do either or both of these things in ways that acknowledge and accept risk? Would that make those instances clearly not bad?

Yes and probably.

Is it highly likely everyone does?

No, or at least, society isn’t very good at treating the decision as autonomous and giving everybody judgment free information. When society is bad at those sorts of things, people tend to be similarly bad at doing things with heavy potential downsides in informed and fully considered ways.

And you might find said judgment free information in a support group for cutters (though you can also find copycatting and feeding each other’s bad shit ummmm less productive?habits, depending) but it at least seems to me you’re not likely to find said judgment free information about junk food in a community of people who celebrate eating it.

At least here on tumblr, what you find seems to be “all foods are here to nourish you, even the ones that are only a step up from cardboard with spices on it because they have to technically be edible, and pleasure is good. Eat, my lovelies, EEEEEAT!”

Which just… again, since if I’m at risk of anything it would be binging without purging, I look at those posts and just bewilderedly wonder why they don’t at least specify their target audience.

That could well be harm reduction for some people (and I’m probably pissing off the ones for whom it is), but it’s actually not for others.

Especially especially when “indulgence is good” is ITSELF an advertising slogan, used to sell particularly rich junk food as ~naughty sinful~.

Like, when I watch Virgie Tovar I don’t get the feeling I’m not hearing that food is a moral issue. I get the feeling the moral judgments are all still there but just flipped.

I’m not hearing “cake is morally neutral” at ALL. I’m hearing “if you don’t want a big piece of cake you’re a no fun Puritan and probably even a handmaiden of the patriarchy.”

#weight loss #personal #I’m straight up afraid to post here #that my therapist thinks it’s ok for me to say I think things are bad

[13thgenfilm]

* JUST SIX SLEEPS AWAY! * On Wednesday, October 19th, please join us at the GLBT Historical Society’s annual Gala - REUNION - in-person from 6-9 pm! 13th Gen’s Marc Smolowitz & his husband Yves Averous are proud to sponsor this highlight of the year. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

TICKETS: 👉 https://glbthistory.org/reunion

Reunion will be hosted by two fantastic performers:  Kylie Minono, a dedicated community organizer, and  MADD-DOGG 20/20, a two-time San Francisco Drag King winner. 

This year’s History Makers Award Honorees are: 

Olga Talamante -  former executive director and current board member of the Chicana Latina Foundation.

Donna Personna -  a transgender rights activist and fine artist who works in painting, photography and mixed media.

Drag Queen Story Hour -  represented at the Gala by Per Sia and Julián Delgado Lopera, was founded in San Francisco in 2015 by Michelle Tea and RADAR Productions, under the leadership of Julián Delgado Lopera and Virgie Tovar.

And this year’s Willie Walker Founders Award Honorees are:

Zane Blaney & John Caldwell - in 2020 John and Zane made a foundational gift to help the GLBT Historical Society install a new Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) to ensure long-term preservation and accessibility of digital files.

#San Francisco #LGBTQ History #LGBTQ History Month #queer history #GLBT Historical Society #LGBTQ #Kylie Minono #MADD-DOGG 20/20 #Olga Talamante #Donna Personna #Drag Queen Story Hour #DQSH #Zane Blaney #John Caldwell #digital archives #LGBTQ archives

[anniekoh]

What a delightful podcast. I’ve started to go deep on podcasts but sometimes struggle to find podcast hosts who remember to make enough space for the topic or the guest! Virgie Tovar does both in Rebel Eaters Club!

The Rebel Eaters Club starter pack includes the suggested snacks to eat together with the host/guest at the start of the episode! There’s also a playlist!

From the episode with Francis Lam @Francis_Lam

[00:10:21] Virgie Tovar: I know exactly what Francis is talking about. Food felt like a passport to me when I moved out of my parents' house. I remember being 18 and finally getting to choose what I ate. I was so curious about anything I didn't eat at home, or wasn't served at the mall. Anything unfamiliar. One of my discoveries was wait for it. Balsamic vinegar. I know I wanted that story to be more glamorous too. But the moment I tasted it was nothing short of thrilling. The sweet acidity brought me fully into my body in a way that felt good. I loved that feeling and I wanted more of it. At the time I was still dieting and that impacted what I thought I could eat, but even that couldn't stop my pursuit of that. That feeling. [00:11:16] There was a lot of emotional instability at home, and I was a fat pariah at school. That humble little teaspoon of vinegar meant that there was something entirely outside the orbit of the life I had known for 18 years.

From the episode with Summer Michaud-Skog, author of Fat Girls Hiking: An Inclusive Guide to Getting Outdoors at Any Size Or Ability. "Trails Not Scales"!

Summer: [24:03] I have learned so much about myself and my own insecurities as a leader. When I first started leading group hikes, I wanted to be on the top of a mountain with a group of fat people. And I thought, “God, that would be so epic.” You know?

And so I led a hike where we were climbing this pretty challenging trail near Portland and you know what? Most of us were miserable, and it wasn't like the most fun experience. And most of us made it to the top. And, you know, it was like not as exciting, not as great as I thought it would be to be honest.

And so, like, what I've learned is we don't need to stand on top of a mountain together to be epic and empowered and inspired. We can, we can just be wherever we are like in nature together.

And really my focus more now is having accessible spaces, really, like having spaces where wheelchair users will be able to access the trail or, you know, people who can't go up in elevation, whatever people's needs are. Like, I want to make sure that, that anyone who wants to come on a hike has a space where we can be, um, seen and celebrated. And everyone should have that space, you know?

Bonus! Trailer for the short documentary Fat Girls Hiking below.

#food #podcast #immigrant experience #hiking #accessibility

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Queer and Trans Artists of Color by Nia King

goodreads

A collection of sixteen unique and honest conversations you won't read anywhere else... Mixed-race queer art activist Nia King left a full-time job in an effort to center her life around making art. Grappling with questions of purpose, survival, and compromise, she started a podcast called We Want the Airwaves in order to pick the brains of fellow queer and trans artists of color about their work, their lives, and "making it" - both in terms of success and in terms of survival. In this collection of interviews, Nia discusses fat burlesque with Magnoliah Black, queer fashion with Kiam Marcelo Junio, interning at Playboy with Janet Mock, dating gay Latino Republicans with Julio Salgado, intellectual hazing with Kortney Ryan Ziegler, gay gentrification with Van Binfa, getting a book deal with Virgie Tovar, the politics of black drag with Micia Mosely, evading deportation with Yosimar Reyes, weird science with Ryka Aoki, gay public sex in Africa with Nick Mwaluko, thin privilege with Fabian Romero, the tyranny of "self-care" with Lovemme Corazon, "selling out" with Miss Persia and Daddie$ Pla$tik, the self-employed art activist hustle with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha, and much, much more. Welcome to the future of QPOC art activism.

Mod opinion: I haven't heard of this book before, but I know some of the artists in here whose work I enjoyed, so I'm excited to check it out sometime.

#queer and trans artists of color #nia king #polls #trans books #trans lit #trans literature #lgbt books #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #own voices #nonfiction #memoir #qpoc #to read

[furiagorda]

«Las personas gordas no estamos mal.

Nuestro propósito no es convertirnos en personas delgadas.

Somos personas enteras. Somos personas completas. Estamos bien».

Virgie Tovar (paráfrasis).

#furia gorda #activismo gordo #fat activism #activismo gorde #gordofobia #fat liberation #fat acceptance #fat positive #body positive #cultura de las dietas #diet culture #fatpol #fatlib #fat politics #cita

[rotationalsymmetry]

I want there to be a former gifted kid/academic abuse survivor movement, I need it in the same way that people who have been dieting their whole lives need an anti-dieting community and anti-psych people need an anti-psych community. It’s not about bragging. It’s about recovery.

Because this stuff fucked me up, actually.

I have bits and pieces. Carl Roger’s On Becoming A Person. Paolo Friere’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. The Teenage Liberation Handbook (which has some flaws, but I mean.) What I don’t have is community. What I don’t have is people I can talk to and go “this was my experience” and have them go “yeah I get it, me too.”

Some theory on what the nature of the harm is and what recovery looks like would be nice too. I need the equivalent of fat fashion photos, but for “here’s me doing something I haven’t done since I was ten and it has no productivity or social status value but I sure enjoyed doing it.”

Because what Virgie Tovar said about dieting being a way to be good? For me that’s productivity, I feel like I have to be checking things off a list to be good, to be turning in assignments or being told I did a good job, and I am aware it is bad for me and I also have been struggling for decades to break away from it and it’s fucking hard.

I keep trying to sort of translate or transpose fat liberation and intuitive eating ideas (beauty = grades/smarts/career success, dieting = pressure to perform, fat = “stupid”/“lazy”/“unsuccessful”, hunger/fullness = recognizing when I want to get something done and when I need a break, recognizing when I want to do a leisure thing and when it’s not actually bringing me joy any more) but not everything maps perfectly and it would be really nice to have material that I didn’t have to translate.

[jhapalitimes]

New Travel Experiences Embrace Plus-Size Travelers, Eradicating FOMO

Embracing Body Acceptance and Community, Niche Tour Operators Bring Reassurance and Fun at Par with Standard Group Trips Vacation is meant to be a time of relaxation and exhilaration, but for plus-size travelers, it often comes with stress and disappointment. Fat bias and societal structures have historically led to the fear of missing out, as many activities and amenities are not designed with larger bodies in mind. However, a small but growing market is now catering to size-inclusive travel, offering joy, community, and reassurance to people in bigger bodies at price points comparable to standard group trips. These size-inclusive trips provide numerous benefits for participants, emotionally and logistically. Travelers know they have chosen a trip designed around body acceptance, surrounded by peers who are versed in their experiences and language. The focus on accessibility ensures that everything is planned with comfort and convenience in mind. Zoe Shapiro, founder of Stellavision Travel, which offers size-inclusive trips to southern Italy, acknowledges that she cannot prevent judgmental looks, but she promises to shield her travelers from such discomfort. Many adventure-based excursions, like zip-lining and white-water rafting, have exclusionary weight limits, but advocates argue that with an innovative mindset, these activities can be made inclusive. Annette Richmond, the founder of Fat Girls Traveling, refuses to let sizeist conventions hinder her experiences. She hosts trips and retreats exclusively for fat femmes and nonbinary people, providing a safe space for them to travel unapologetically. Other operators like Swipe Fat, Fat Girls Travel, Too!, and Virgie Tovar offer size-inclusive trips to destinations like Greece, Spain, Indonesia, and Cuba. Their trips empower travelers to celebrate their identities without fear of judgment. The travel industry has been slow to accommodate plus-size travelers, despite one-third of the world's population being classified as fat. These size-inclusive tour operators are stepping up to fill the void, creating transformative experiences for participants. As Virgie Tovar emphasizes, travel is a human right, and everyone should have the opportunity to explore the world without feeling excluded. With these niche travel companies leading the way, the hope is that the travel industry will become more inclusive, catering to the diverse needs and desires of all travelers. - Source:- nytimes.com Read the full article

[loomworld]

controversial opinion but its hard to promote body positivity when people like virgie tovar exists, im very happy that people are finally coming to conclusions that fat bodies ARE OKAY.. but people like virgie tovar are actively promoting "u dont needa lose weight ur perfect the way you are u dont needa diet no matter what js eat happily ur gna b healthy even tho ur fat" but this mentality of "im healthy no matter what" is SUPER FUCKING DANGEROUS.. if people stand by this to their core this can actually be neglecting ur health which can potentially lead to heart attacks nd strokes AND MUCH MORE TOO, lets promote body inclusivity + positivity without that shit