Posts by Liz Boltz Ranfeld
8 Reasons Why I Took a First Grader to the Women’s March
Can you guess why this author felt it was so important for her daughter to be at the Women’s March? These reasons are giving us some hope for the future!
Read More9 Helpful Tips for the Feminist First-Year College Student
If you identify as a feminist during your first year on campus, you can be surrounded by anti-feminist beliefs and misconceptions. Here’s how to cope while you hope for your peers get on board.
Read MoreWhat Happens If We Let Fat People Be Happy?
We all love a good, body-positive message, right? That is, if the woman behind the message is relatively thin. If she’s fat, or writes positively about bodies of all sizes, abilities, and more, she gets a tidal wave of criticism. Why? There’s a massive, toxic industry behind it. Here’s how and why we should reject the absurd notion that only weight loss means happiness.
Read More5 Reasons Why I Won’t Fat-Shame My Daughter and Don’t Care If She Gets Fat
In a world filled with misogyny, children are taught to diet at terrifyingly early ages and women are perpetually assessed by oppressive, fatphobic, Eurocentric, patriarchal standards of beauty (as opposed to character or skill). Liz Boltz Ranfeld vows to break the cycle of fat-shaming by loving and celebrating her daughter regardless of weight or size.
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