SORRY FOR THE VERY PERSONAL COMIC!!

This is my half of “Unhealthy”, an essay comic double header with the lovely and talented Sarah Winifred Searle. She and I both wrote about our personal experiences as overweight ladies with eating disorders, and her story is breathtaking! You can buy a physical copy of the book here: https://topatoco.com/collections/abby-howard/products/ah-unhealthy

Or buy a digital PDF here: https://abbyhoward.itch.io/unhealthy

A comic by an inspiring woman, whose story mirrors much of my own. -ATL

Time to re-up this one. Virtual hugs to everyone out there who has been told they shouldn’t live unless they are ashamed of being fat. You should. Please, live.

-ATL

Everyone should take the time to read this- but especially thin allies in the body positivity movement to end fatshaming who sympathize but haven't experienced fatphobia directly. Great insight into the mindset of fat people who want to be healthy, but have bad relationships with food that have been pushed on them by society.

Fat people are not required to dress up on Halloween as Ursula, Peter Griffin, Shrek, Paul Blart, Homer Simpson, Eric Cartman, Donald Trump, literal food, or any other fat villain/joke/stereotype. Fat people are allowed to dress up as Cinderella, Wolverine, what have you. We don’t even have to dress up as characters that are canonically fat. We don't have to cover our bodies ten times as much as thin people. And if you feel uncomfortable seeing a fat person not walk around as your fat joke personified and instead allowed to be seen as an actual human being for once, then that problem is your own.

-Mod Worthy

Wow I really needed to hear this today. Just put together a cosplay for a thin anime character and was feeling kinda rough about it.

I. HATE. This. Mentality.

NOT EVERYONE HATES THEIR BODY AS IS.

NOT EVERYONE WANTS TO LOSE WEIGHT.

Can we denormalize congratulating people for loss of weight without even ASKING if the weight loss was intentional? Can we denormalize commenting on others' bodies in general? IM SO SICK OF IT.

Crazy I saw this post... my teacher and I were chatting after class today. She asked mid conversation if she could make a comment about my appearance. I told her that was fine and she proceeded to say "I've noticed this year you've gotten leaner" and then waited for my reaction. I responded "Yeah! I was trying to lose about 30 pounds, I achieved it." THEN my teacher gave her thoughts about it.

If you're going to talk about others' bodies, this is how it should be done. First, be sure they're comfortable hearing the comment or having the conversation in general. Then make a NEUTRAL observation on the loss of weight and see their reaction. Determine whether it's a positive or negative development in their life first. Always.

You never know when you could be fueling the fires of an eating disorder when you were just trying to give a compliment.

little rant

*inhales*

FATPHOBIC PEOPLE ARE SO GROSS LIKE IT DISGUSTS ME GO AWAY JUST GO LET PEOPLE LIVE

FAT PEOPLE ARE GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL AND WORTHY AND THEY DESERVE LOVE AND TO FEEL SEXY CAUSE THEY ARE LOVABLE AND SEXY

PREACH!