My Culture is Not Your Toy: A Gay Japanese Man’s Perspective on Queer Eye Japan
How Queer Eye damages the very people and culture they were trying to save. This article was originally published on Medium can be found here. By Steven Wakabayashi For the newest season of Queer Eye, the Fab 5 head to Japan to transform
Is Veganism Body-Negative? Ask A Fat Vegan.
“Just to be clear -- I want real meat and real cheese on mine.” An eyebrow raised emphatically, gaze pointed in my general direction -- just vague enough to keep the dinner from becoming hostile, but sharp enough to convey that my order had
Devaluing Political Beauty When You’re Ugly AF
In discussing body positivity or fat positivity, there is always the overarching concept that beauty standards and the power of beauty are something we need to devalue instead of marketing “everyone is beautiful.” We are trained to believe that being
A Boudoir Session And Body-Pos Conversation With Trans Activist Emby Bourne
When Bethany Tate, a Portland-based makeup artist and frequent collaborator, asked if we could team up to provide a boudoir session for her friend and local trans activist Emby Bourne, of course I said yes. What is a boudoir session? It's a photo
The Body Positivity Movement Still Looks Too Much Like White Feminism
A couple of months ago, I wrote an article entitled The Body Positivity Movement Looks A Lot Like White Feminism. The feedback I received ranged from, “Why should white women be blamed for the lack of representation in the body positivity