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Yesterday I was contacted by a journalist from Stuff for my thoughts on the closure of Jenny Craig and you can read the resulting article here. Ever since I contracted Long COVID last year and got brain fog, I find it much easier to provide written responses where I can articulate myself properly, rather than a rushed phone conversation, so I answered her questions via email. I had rather a lot to say, so here's my full response to the questions:   How do you feel about the possible end of Jenny Craig? My first response was absolute glee. It's always...

In February I was contacted by an editor at Stuff to ask if she could speak to me about the movie The Whale. Because my brain is still a little Long COVID-y, and I wanted to make sure I got my words right, I said I'd rather answer her questions via email than phone, and she actually ended up commissioning me to write the whole piece, woo.  "Fat suits treat the fat body as a prison, perpetuating the myth that there’s a thin person inside every fat person, just waiting to come out. They lie to us saying, “You don’t deserve...

I had a great chat to Julie Jacobson from New Zealand Woman's Weekly about all things Boom. There were a few weird sub editing things in the piece - like that they put "fat" in quotation marks, and that I was called Joanne in one place, and I felt it odd that they didn't mention that the youth charity I work with is for queer youth (although there is nothing subtle about all the rainbows I'm wearing) and I wish I hadn't let the photographer put me in pony tails with ribbon bows cos that's not me, but, y'know, learning...

Today House of Boom has its very own Spinoff piece The 'fatshion' label making ethical clothes for fat people