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As a thin person, your privilege allows your voice to be heard much, much louder than the multitude of fat people that came before you. And when you use the platform that you’ve been allotted to speak solely for the hurt feelings of thin people, you ignore the experiences of fat people – and you concertize the oppression they face.

And that’s not a movement to be proud of.

So the next time you find yourself wondering why you feel left out of body acceptance, ask yourself why you need it in the first place. More than likely, it’s because you, like the rest of us, were taught to hate the way you look and to be fearful of having or actually being fat.

Body positivity and body acceptance are absolutely crucial to social justice activism and our work towards a more inclusive society. However, it is the rampant and systemic loathing of fat bodies that necessitate these as vital and radical concepts.

So if it’s fat that we hate so much as a society, then it’s fat bodies that need the most attention in movements working to fix that.

On the approach of Hurricane Matthew – currently a category 4 storm threatening a country still recovering from a 2010 earthquake – National Hurricane Center meteorologist DENNIS FELTGEN

(via inothernews)

If you’re in Haiti, if anyone you love is in Haiti, our hearts are with you tonight.

And no matter where you are in the world, here’s how you can help:

Support UNICEF’s relief efforts. 

Help World Vision provide relief supplies

Assist affected families through Save The Children

harry compiles a mixtape of his all time top ten for another magazine: 

breathe - pink floyd / can’t help falling in love - elvis presley / heart of the country - paul mccartney / helplessly hoping - crosby, stills & nash / drown in my own tears - ray charles / ooh love - blaze foley / bridge over troubled water - simon & garfunkel / tupelo honey - van morrison / flowers in the window - travis / she’s got you - pasty cline