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Installed a pill reminder widget on my computer. It is totally worth the $2 I spent on it. I haven't missed anything since setting up the alerts.

Links

cereta: Fat and Angry: Now a trilogy (discusses various fat-shaming techniques used by loved ones, in order to debunk them)

Fat and Angry Part III: To Those Who Love Us

I know I am never going to reach the people who are genuinely cruel and are just using concern as an excuse to exercise that cruelty. This is for the friends, family members, and loved ones who genuinely want to be kind, want to help us, want to find the right tactic to make us understand why we must lose weight and how to do so.

In a word: don’t.

firecat: Oversimplification of other people's sexuality is the anti-viagra (a nice comprehensive set of quotes about Ogas and Gaddam's further adventures in Fail)

Body Beautiful

How the Fat Acceptance Movement Taught Me to Love My Body, Even Though I'm Probably Not Quite the Target Audience

( Various body and weight talk including actual numbers, near-strangers armchair-diagnosing people with eating disorders. Also some mentions of sexual violence. Also, I ramble and digress. )

In conclusion: people who love their bodies, people who are working to love their bodies, and people who are working against the kinds of crap that make people hate their bodies: ♥

I was originally planning to type this up for Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, but today seemed like the right day. I do hope to get some other thinky thoughts out there during 3WFDw.