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3 hot takes on body image, exercise, & eating 🔥
PLUS: A little review of the "naked dating" show that dropped on Max.
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Mikala Jamison
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Research doesn't make being fat any easier
Can we acknowledge the harms of fatphobia without "well, actually"-ing about health?
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Mikala Jamison
Tired/sad/lazy girl* fitness
Here's how to start working out when it's the last thing you can imagine doing.
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Mikala Jamison
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August 2023
Read this if you don't like exercise
Let's discuss mindset, comparison, and Daria Morgendorffer.
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Mikala Jamison
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Target’s vanity sizing reaches new lows
One of the worst offenders of sizing trickery is getting more extreme.
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Mikala Jamison
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On body image work and beauty standards across cultures: A Q&A with Elise Hu
"Think about ritual instead of results."
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Mikala Jamison
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The agony and the ecstasy of weight loss compliments
Three things to consider about the risky business of discussing someone's body.
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Mikala Jamison
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July 2023
This Barbie is fed up with body policing
We've been so harmed by a thinness-obsessed culture that demonizing weight loss seems like a potential corrective. It isn't.
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Mikala Jamison
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Just belt it
On generational silhouettes.
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Mikala Jamison
June 2023
Invite friends to Body Type, get upgraded to paid (plus, a podcast recommendation)
Look out for what's coming in July!
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Mikala Jamison
There's no "right" way to lose weight (says the person who did it "right")
On moralizing how people practice bodily autonomy.
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Mikala Jamison
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May 2023
Pushing is not punishing
The idea that challenging exercise is antithetical to self-care is an overcorrection for the worst of fitness and diet culture.
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