HeyJaredfat hell
A newsletter about self-mythology as an idea, feeling, and force. Fatness is a persistent theme.
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in the deadlights, we’re all family (opens the original)
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Tim Curry died this week and my sister sent a Pennywise the Clown GIF to our family group chat, which in my family is a pretty standard bereavement protocol. In this particular GIF, Pennywise is waving hello (or, I suppose in this context, goodbye). He raises his white-gloved hand and wiggles his fingers flirtatiously like he just saw you from across the bar and really digs your vibe and is not, in fact, an ancient sadistic shapeshifting entity who hibernates for decades to emerge with an insati
four things that are actually worth it: no like actually edition (opens the original)
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I am plagued — nay, besieged — by two truths that encircle me like the two raptors in Jurassic Park. Just when I think I’m free and clear to make my way forward, these truths come at me from either side and boom, there I am, sitting in a pool of bloody truths again. One truth is the fact that I feel like I can only write here when I have Something to Say About Being Fat, and the other is that I am currently over-indexing on two fascinating categories of TikTok content, dished up to me so many ti
I am attempting to preserve fatness in amber (opens the original)
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I’ve mentioned this before, but I’m trying to write a book. Classic me, just fucking around trying to write a book for...15 years? This so-called book has taken many different forms; plus-size fashion discourse and analysis, a memoir about working in media in the body-positive era, a novel about a lesbian who came out later in life and had a full-blown menty b after her first real girlfriend unceremoniously dumped her and so she went to Maine to heal and walked the same three mile loop around a
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