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How not to be a dick to your friend/loved one/relative with eating disorders
Content warning: disordered eating, fatphobia, misogynistic language, description of child abuse Note: this is written based on my own personal experience with relatives, friends, loved ones, and my eating disorders. Other people may have different eating disorders and different experiences, and my post is in now way trying to speak for them. It’s just me…
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Sept 12: Shadow. #fmsphotoaday
Sept 12: Shadow. #fmsphotoaday, a photo by Katje van Loon on Flickr.
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Studying Stones
Today’s prompt for the FMS Photo a Day was “Sweet.” My lunch was sweet. Today has a hint of bitter to it. Three years ago in August, my Oma died, just shy of her 93rd birthday. Today she would have been 96. And for some reason today it’s hitting me hard. The first year was…
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The last few days in pictures
Every time I try to work on my computer My entire Monday What made things better
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Our relationship, in a nutshell
Just in case you were worried this blog had gone all serious business and long posts, all the time. I don’t actually remember when this conversation took place or even if I’ve shared it before; I found the screenshot of it when I was browsing through pictures on my phone. Pretty sure it happened when…
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I didn’t use to think I was pretty; or, In defense of the selfie
If you spend any time on the internet you know that the word selfie often takes on connotations that are disparaging. Only self-centred hipsters do that, people might say, or Selfies are for women/girls who are attention-whores. (And yes, women are always “attention-whores”; they are never simply self-centred. Hooray sexist gendered language!) And perhaps the…