Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith

6 days ago | virginiasolesmith.substack.com | Virginia Sole-Smith |Corinne Fay

Subscriber-only safe space to talk about how we're dismantling diet culture, divesting ourselves and our parenting of fatphobia, and generally coping in the world as people with bodies. Also, we love snacks. Subscriber-only safe space to talk about how we're dismantling diet culture, divesting ourselves and our parenting of fatphobia, and generally coping in the world as people with bodies. Also, we love snacks.

1 week ago | virginiasolesmith.substack.com | Virginia Sole-Smith

Hi Burnt Toasties,One of the chores on my garden to do list is to pull out several large lavender plants. They’ve been limping along for several years, getting increasingly brittle, woody and grumpy. So it’s time to accept that these sun-loving beauties aren’t made for my shady woodland garden.

1 week ago | virginiasolesmith.substack.com | Virginia Sole-Smith

I was going to write a Lizzo think piece for you this week. But truly, I don’t have it in me. Lizzo is fine. I mean, she’s messy, sure. No, I don’t love the phrase “weight releasing.” Yes, there is some co-opting of body liberation rhetoric to endorse intentional weight loss. But she’s an internationally famous fat Black woman in a culture that hates fat Black women. Of course it’s messy. Of course the rhetoric is problematic. And me writing a Lizzo piece doesn’t make that less messy.

2 weeks ago | virginiasolesmith.substack.com | Corinne Fay |Virginia Sole-Smith |Brianna Campos

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2 weeks ago | virginiasolesmith.substack.com | Virginia Sole-Smith

When the Senate voted to confirm an actual Huberman husband controlled by brain worm as Secretary of Health and Human Services, we knew things were gonna get dark. This is the man who dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park because he was…running late for a steak dinner. The same man who only eats between noon and 7pm (so obvs he couldn’t be late for that dinner!) but also promised to protect our God-given right as Americans to eat Twinkies.