It seems like I have always been too fat, too loud, too opinionated – or “judgey,” a word my older daughter, Emily, uses to describe me...

The title of this month’s Two Fat Professors blogpost is a bit of an overstatement, but in many ways everything in my life has changed as...

Recently, my partner had surgery and I ended up hanging out at our local hospital for a few days while he recovered. Although fatphobia...

At the risk of sounding like I'm writing a pumpkin-spice-latte-white-girl-fluff piece on the joys of fall, I’d like to spend some time...

I don’t know if there’s such a thing as an innate feminist, but I could almost swear that I was born with Susan B. Anthony’s name on my...

It’s the end of the semester and this fat professor is feeling reflective. In Wisconsin, it’s finally beginning to look like spring and...

Note: This blogpost is based on a larger work I wrote for Humanity & Society . Studies continue to show that like other marginalized...