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Are Summer Reading Lists...Diet-Adjacent?
It's a lot of tracking, is all I'm saying. (Plus thoughts on scheduling exercise, making meadows, and the childless cat ladies in all of our hearts.)
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Fatphobic Roller Coasters and Fatphobic Socks
Also: Do you have a scent strategy for your house? It's July Indulgence Gospel!
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Corinne Fay
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48:13
The Food Writers Are Not Okay
But it’s not because they’re fat.
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What Was Your Most Useless Beauty Purchase?
Plus great tank tops, the value of not missing your kids, and RIP Richard Simmons.
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That Time I Spent $200 On My Chin.
Investigating Big Beauty's not so pretty origin stories, with Anita Bhagwandas, author of UGLY.
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Anita Bhagwandas
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39:06
Every Relationship is a Mixed Weight Relationship
Stop making straight men the heroes here.
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What Is Your Actually Useful Baby Advice?
I have one mountain I'll die on, everything else is you do you.
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"Like Hand Soap In Your Fruit Juice"
Listen now | Taste testing and exploring when sobriety meets diet culture. It’s Extra Butter: Mocktail Edition.
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Corinne Fay
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42:54
Who Am I if I Can't Organize a Closet?
On hustle culture, home organization as diet culture and the glory and tyranny of being forced to rest.
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"If Trump Wins, State Legislatures Are A Best Defense"
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can save the world. (Yes, even now.)
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14:50
How Do You Fix A Bad Body Day?
Plus shameless Instagram misogynists and storage containers.
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June 2024

5 Things Filling My Summer Childcare Gaps
Some lil' treats since we can't have systemic change.
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