#transfats

The Tabasco law, passed on a 22-8 vote on Monday, uses verbal gymnastics to try to avoid including traditional snacks in the ban. The Tabasco law “prohibits the sale, distribution, giving, supply or donation of bottled sugary drinks, carbonated sugary drinks, sweets and snacks prepared with mainly refined carbohydrates and solid vegetable fats that contain transfats.” It may be a long haul to enforce the new law, because many packaged snack foods like Doritos chips have already been firmly integrated into Mexican food culture, with “Dorilocos” now a staple at Mexican parks. Preparing “Dorilocos” involves splitting open a bag and adding as many as a dozen ingredients to the chips, some healthy — like celery or tomato — and some decidedly not so, like salted nuts or gummy bears.

Food packaging: 0 grams Trans Fats

#TransFatTuesdays

As a fat curvy trans person, it was extremely hard to love myself growing up. Having a really large chest made everything worse as I was sexualized at a really young age. I never saw my body represented outside of like, fetish art. Trans people are so often desexualized, and I think I internalized that rhetoric bc I felt extremely guilty and dysphoric about having an "inherently sexual" body. Its lead to really unhealthy habits and even eating disorders so that I could get the "ideal" trans body

Behold, my goon collection

I realize I’m coming up with this idea a little late, but how about we make Tuesdays #TransFatTuesdays?  I want to give fat folks like myself a spotlight, and I don’t want our conversations about fatphobia to die out and get forgotten.