Archive for tag: eating disorders

03.092018September 10, 2019

Taking Up Space

Taking Up Space

By Marcelle HeathIn FeaturedTags anorexia, body dysmorphia, bulimia, eating disorders, OCD, Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Taking Up Space is an excerpt from Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir It wasn’t difficult to be silent. My undergraduate college campus was dark when...

29.092017September 10, 2019

The Authored Self

The Authored Self

By Sarah ClarkIn FeaturedTags authority, censorship, classism, domestic violence, eating disorders, education, exoticism, femininity, Feminism, gender studies, gendered violence, healing, male gaze, memoir, persona, purity culture, racism, rape culture, recovery, Reema Zaman, sexism, shame, theatre, trauma, victim-blaming, writing

Writing, for me, means freedom. Which is to say, everything prior to discovering writing was entrapment. You cannot desire freedom, you cannot be gripped by...

22.062016November 12, 2019

Notes Toward a New Language: On Women Poets and Nourishment

Notes Toward a New Language: On Women Poets and Nourishment

By VIDAIn FeaturedTags anorexia, bulimia, Cynthia Cruz, eating disorders, mental illness, misogyny, racism, Sylvia Plath

In 2010 I began to construct an anthology of poetry written by women who had and/or continue to struggle with an eating disorder. The initial...