"I justify nothing beyond my own actions."

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YES. This IS Wendy Freaking Padbury dancing her heart out to Uptown Funk.

is the sheer amount of people I’ve known that just lie & tell people they’re deathly allergic to foods they dislike

because otherwise people will hound them, mock them, coax them, harass them, try to force them to eat it, or even trick them into eating it, and they will never hear the end of it

your coworkers will bake it into a fucking pie, call it something else, and wait til your birthday, gather everyone and their first cousins to sit around in a circle waiting for you to put a forkful into your mouth and then point rhythmically at you in a chanting, glaring, sweating, unholy circle like SWISS CHARD SWISS CHARD YOU JUST ATE SWISS CHARD HA HA HA SWISS CHARD NOW YOU LIKE SWISS CHARD

Because forcing someone into a situation where they don’t feel safe declining putting something into their body they’d rather not be there is totes 100% wholesome American fun

My mom always tries to do things like that, and she’d get really angry when I didn’t fall for it or thwarted her attempts at doing it to other people. Like she’d put alum in the potato salad to prank my step-dad, onions in a casserole after my ex-husband admitted he can’t stand to eat them, mushrooms in a dish she made for Husband who hates mushrooms and when I warned him, she got mad at me. And she’d get mad at me when I would tell her how mean it was to do that.

One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she’ll take 4 ounces of formula at lunch and 8 ounces in the afternoon. Today, I was lucky to get to her take 5 all day.

There was a substitute covering a lunch break in my classroom today. We emphasized to her that we need to keep trying to get the baby to drink her bottle until she finished it. She said, “Why are you guys so worried about taking her bottle?”

My coworker replied, “That’s where all her nutrients are. She needs the nutrients and the water.”

To which the substitute replied, “But she’s so fat. She doesn’t need it.”

By starving her. She insisted that her baby was ‘too fat’ and had an aim to remove any and all ‘chubbyness’ so her baby would be thin. She’d already been warned by her doctor about the baby not getting enough food, but insisted she knew best.

After several months of this her baby passed out cold one day and was rushed into hospital where the doctors found her to have severe malnutrition, a low body temperature and low pulse rate. They asked my cousin what she’d been feeding her daughter and she said “one bottle of skimmed milk a day. I don’t want her growing up fat.”

Even after nearly killing her daughter my cousin maintained her view that fat = bad and ended up with all her kids taken from her because she was starving them and neglecting them.

When your fatphobia leads you to starving your own children then you’ve got serious problems.

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She backed off saying, ‘Well he looks fine!” – proving once again that weight bias is not truly about health – But I know many other parents who are not as informed as I am about weight science and size diversity would react to this interaction by policing their child’s food intake, if not as an infant, then when he was an older child. This is exactly the type of seemingly-inconsequential interaction that starts the ball rolling on a lifetime of dieting, disordered eating, negative body image, and weight-based abuse for too many fat people.

Years later when he was five, another doctor measured his weight and height and commented that he is off the charts on both, but “at least he is in proportion.” And if he was not “in proportion,” I am sure I would have been advised once again to “watch his weight.” 

I no longer allow healthcare providers to weight my children unless it is absolutely medically necessary. They are unable to control their weight talk, which is a known harm for children.

1. The 4 years old daughter of a friend of mine came to our house to spend the weekend. She gave me a letter from her mom that said that the child was in a glutenfree diet because she was getting ‘awfully fat’ when eating cookies or bread (my celiac ass; who gets dhiarrea and loses a scary amount of weight whenever I eat something with gluten was like ’???’).

You can bet that I went to the supermarket with the kid and told her ‘go & take whatever you feel like eating’ and the poor child came back smiling with her arms full of biscuits and cupcakes.

She didn’t got sick (as a celiac would get) and told me later that she hated the diet her mother made her follow; because her cousins didn’t had to pass through that.

And what’s the scariest thing about this story? Her mother was a NURSE. A fucking nurse who didn’t have a clue of the harm that she was doing to her daughter’s body!

2. My little sister started to feel fatigued and dizzy at 9 years old. She felt nauseated at the sight of food and had abdominal pain that increased with physical activity.

Mom got her to the ER and the doctor dismissed it saying: ‘she’s fat and probably is feeling ill after eating too much burgers, get her to make some exercise and she will be better in no time’.My mom didn’t felt ok with the diagnosis and took my sister with a second doctor who also told her that ‘the child was just fat’.

My sister’s skin was starting to get yellow as the days passed and the abdominal pain was getting awful so my mom (heaven bless her!) got her to the ER for the third time:

SHE HAD STAGE 4 HEPATITIS AND WAS ABOUT TO DIE.

She survived after a long and painful recovery who involved being in bed for a whole year (remember that we’re speaking of a 9 years old child). Luckily they saved her liver and she didn’t went through a transplant… but let this sink:

If it weren’t for my mother, fatphobia would have killed her. Fatphobia kills kids and teenagers, fatphobia kills inocent people everyday. It treats human beings as lesser than others and hurts them in their most vulnerable times.

FUCKING TAKE NOTE OF THIS!

This one saves me on the regular. When you’re done with your writing session, make a note to yourself in your document about what you were working on and what you intend to do the next time you open your WIP. It helps if you make this note right at the spot you were working on, and another reminder at the top of the document. I like to change the font color and increase the size so I see it right away the next time I open my document.

You might not always go back to what you were working on before. But this trick can save you a lot of time reading through your WIP and trying to remember where you were going. Plus it can keep your WIP from becoming a giant mess of half-started ideas and editing tweaks.

Some examples of recent notes I’ve made to myself in my WIP:

“…working on adding more detail to the dormitory scene. Two more paragraphs to go… left off HERE.”

“…got confused about the layout of the house and stopped to make a map. Refer to map and finish editing this scene.”

“…changing scene from past to present tense… left off HERE”

“…finish writing the breakfast scene”

Apparently 30 or lower is indicative of possibly being on the autism spectrum.

This makes my blood boil..They really do not gaf about poor people..

Rest in peace Yeweinisht Mesfin. You won’t be forgotten.

Building in the courts and halls of Canadian government for years, conflict over the mammoth Trans Mountain tar- sands oil-pipeline expansion is expected to spill into the streets of British Columbia Saturday with massive civil disobedience demonstrations.

Indigenous leaders from along the pipeline route and the U.S. are expected to join a march and rally beginning Saturday in metro Vancouver. Nearly 7,000 Coast Salish Water Protectors — as the pipeline opponents call themselves — have signed up to participate, said Will George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, spokesman for the Protect the Inlet movement.

“We cannot stand by anymore,” George said. “It is going to be like Standing Rock,” where thousands of so-called water protectors stood against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota in 2016.

“The similarity is we are standing up to protect our water. And we are going to do this in a peaceful way,” George said. “ It is going to mark a day in history; it will be a massive mobilization.”

Info here:

More info here:

https://protecttheinlet.ca/

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A LOT of Canadians shared just about every post about #NODAPL. This is Canada’s #NODAPL and thousands of people are going to be descending tomorrow in Vancouver in a massive Indigenous lead protest against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion which was forced through by Justin Trudeau’s government.

Also, Americans this project will effect you. Washington state shares the same water with British Columbia, and this project is going to drastically increase Super oil tanker traffic in the Haro Strait and Strait of Juan de Fuca.

If you don’t know much about this pipeline and how it will infringe on Indigenous Peoples in Canada, contribute to Climate Change and put Vancouver at a risk of a massive oil spill, I’ve included some reading below:

‘It is our Standing Rock:’ First Nations announce legal actions against feds, Kinder Morgan

Squamish Nation challenging B.C.’s approval of Kinder Morgan project in court

Justin Trudeau Clearly Doesn’t Believe In Indigenous Consent

City of Vancouver continues fight against Kinder Morgan

Standing Rock–type standoff looms in Metro Vancouver with approval of Kinder Morgan pipeline

Tsleil-Waututh blasts Kinder Morgan expansion as colonial land appropriation

Tsleil-Waututh Nation vows to stop Trans Mountain pipeline despite Trudeau government approval

PIPELINE APPROVALS MAKE CANADA’S CLIMATE TARGETS A HERCULEAN CHALLENGE

Kinder Morgan pipeline spill could cost Vancouver $1.2 billion Could increased tanker traffic tank Vancouver’s tourism industry?

Eco-tourism worth billions trumps value of Kinder Morgan project, new report argues And lots more under the #Kinder Morgan hashtag on this blog:

Washington state officials ‘very concerned’ Canada’s oil pipeline spill plan lacking

Washington governor admires cap and trade, but concerned about Kinder Morgan

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