Shy Belly

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Love seeing you and your partner on my feed. Y’all are such a treasure of our community!

Read from Black authors this Black History Month and every month!

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Belly of The Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun L. Harrison

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

Fat Girls In Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own by Joy Arlene Renee Cox, PhD

Fattily Ever After: The Fat, Black Girls' Guide to Living Life Unapologetically by Stephanie Yeboah

Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies by Andrea Elizabeth Shaw

Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes From a Trap Feminist by Sesali Bowen

Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation by Dalia Kinsey, RD, LD

Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

Fat. Black. Femme. Revealing The Power of Visibly Queer Voices in Media and Learning to Love Yourself by Jonathan P. Higgins, Ed.D.

Reclaiming The Black Body: Nourishing the Home Within by Alishia McCullough, LCMHC

The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom by Chrissy King

#VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE: The Fat Girl's Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini by Nicole Byer

It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting The Story of Black Women’s Bodies by Jessica Wilson, MS, RD

Fat On, Fat Off: A Big Bitch Manifesto by Clarkisha Kent

Romance With Voluptuousness: Caribbean Women and Thick Bodies In The United States by Kamille Gentles-Peart

Happy Juneteenth everyone, make sure to spoil your favorite fat black creators today!

I am moving out in 2 weeks! Yay!

I'm really happy and relieved, but it's exhausting.... I really need to be careful with my diet if I don't want to lose weight in the process 😱

Looking at these side-by-sides and seeing the evolution is honestly so motivating. She is living proof that if you stick with your goals, you can achieve big things.

*SLAMS MY HANDS DOWN ON BOTH SO FUCKING HARD* OH MY GOD SOMEONE DO BOTH TO ME.

Not all feedees are created equal. Some are eating until they fall asleep to avoid looking too closely at what they are becoming. Some other are not. Who are the ones who are awake for their own ruin?

The Directive: For your next binge, you will not zone out. You will not watch TV. You will perform a deep inspection on your own surrender.

The Mechanic: Eat until you reach the threshold. You know the exact point. It is the moment when your stomach wall is drum-tight, your breathing becomes a shallow gasp, and the physical pain of fullness sets in. The point where normal people stop.

Stop chewing. Hold the next bite of heavy, dense food in your hand. Look at it.

You know perfectly well that your body does not need this bite. You know that forcing it down will cross the line from 'full' to 'incapacitated'.

Now, close your eyes. Put the food in your mouth. Chew and swallow.

While that unnecessary, painful mass slides down your throat, pushing your overstretched organs to their breaking point, I want you to isolate the exact thought in your head.

The Inquiry:

What was the exact trigger that made you swallow it anyway? When you felt the pain increase, what was the specific feeling you were exploring? Was it panic? Arousal? Or just the desperate need to prove you have no limits?

Break down that surrender. Tell me exactly why you chose to destroy your comfort just to add another fraction of an inch to your more and more obese waistline.

Do not lie and say "it tastes good." Find the real reason you are dragging yourself down. Document it. Post it.