Glenn Gers and Garbage Pail Kids.

As I sifted through the comments left on my blog during my absence, three people standout. "Emily"- The person who hopes I choke because they don't like what I had to say about Emilie Autumn's book. They didn't go into detail about the critique. They just called me names and said I don't get to…

Producers of My 600 Pound Life Now Casting Docuseries about the “#Underweight”

One of the first instagram accounts to follow me when I changed my profile to public was a casting agent for Megalomedia. I had no idea she worked on the show "My 600 Pound Life". And this is how I found out: I don’t have the words to describe how furious this makes me. These…

ARFID in the News

This is slightly old news. But there has been a story circulating about a teenage boy who lost his vision as a result of a restrictive diet. News outlets wrote hadlines like, “British Boy Goes Blind After Eating Only French Fries.” When I heard this on the news on my break at work, I instantly…

America the Beautiful (2007)

I used to organize National Eating Disorder Awareness week on my college campus. At the time, this documentary was streaming on Netflix. For copyright reasons, this was one of the few films my school would allow me to screen. I recently found it on YouTube and watched it for the first time maybe four or…

NEDA and White Fragility

Your perception of eating disorders has been shaped by white supremacy, colonization, capitalism, fat stigma, and more. The National Eating Disorder Association posted this imagine on July 23rd, 2019 on their facebook page. The quote come from a social media account I cannot locate (@fyeahmbello). The image was created by Alyse Ruriani. NEDA removed this post…

Identical by Ellen Hopkins

Identical was written by Ellen Hopkin’s for her series of YA novels written in verse. Hopkins first wrote Crank (2004) and Glass (2007) from the perspective of a teenage girl, in order to better understand her daughter’s addiction to crystal meth. Later, she wrote Fallout (2010), about the children of the protagonist she had based…

Perfect by Natasha Friend

Spoilers for Perfect Natasha Friend. Content Warning: This book (and parts of this post), discuss eating disorders, eating disorder behaviors, blood, grief, loss, suicide, and body shaming. Summary Perfect is a relatively simple story about a 13-year old girl named Isabelle Lee, who struggles with Bulimia. The book begins when April, Isabelle's younger sister, catches…

In ED’s Path by Denise Folcik

Content warning for eating disorder behaviors and body shaming. I include a number to prove a point.  Denise Folcik struggled with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder since childhood, and an eating disorder that she hid for decades. She wrote and self-published a book about these experiences called In ED's Path. Over the course of her memoir, Folcik…

Disfigured (2008): Unpacking The Racist Subplot

I've given a synopsis of the 2008 Independent film, Disfigured, which centers around the friendship between a fat woman and a woman with Anorexia who meet in a Fat Acceptance Group. I discussed how the film depicts both Fat Acceptance and Eating Disorders.  I also talked about the romantic subplot between the protagonist, Lydia, and…

Disfigured (2008): Depiction Of Eating Disorders

To recap: Disfigured (2008) is an independent film about a fat woman and a woman with Anorexia who meet in a Fat Acceptance group. Lydia (Diedra Edwards) belongs to the group, but is ambivalent about her weight and size. Darcy (Staci Lawrence) is ambivalent about recovering from her eating disorder. She tries to join the…