![]() I totally get that discussion threads just are not everyone’s bag-but they are a hit with enough of you that we’re going to keep doing them. Which is why we revisited that format recently, and I’ve sharpened the layout based on your feedback. But we’re out of high book promotion-as-newsletter-content season, which will mean more time for both personal and reported essays and the other stuff you really love.Īlmost tied for least popular was Friday Threads -21.4 percent of you picked that as a least favorite and it came up a lot in the comments. And I firmly believe writers should never apologize for promoting our work-or getting paid for it. Hey me too! Except not, because I’m an author and promoting books is in my job description (finalizing a Seattle event for late fall as I type this, stay tuned!). What you love least: Understandably, 21.6 percent of you are done with book promotion. Though I realize I didn’t distinguish personal essays from reported pieces clearly in this question and let’s be real: The most popular piece on the newsletter right now is What I Wore On Book Tour. The most popular reported essay so far this year is Michelle Obama is Not Coming To Save Us. Mine too! And I have so many big questions and topics I want to explore this way stay tuned for a lot more of this come fall. What you love best: The reported essays continue to be your favorite. (Thank you, I love you.) But it’s always fascinating to hear what you’re most connecting with (or not). Obvious caveat that anyone taking the time to do a 50 question survey is probably already biased in favor of this project. And/or maybe you’re just here for the clothing recs and plant talk? It’s all good. I see you and this newsletter is for you too! Because we’ve all got some re-parenting to do around body stuff. But they also need to learn about thin privilege and how to avoid weaponizing it.Ī bunch of you are anticipating becoming parents, but a good 17 percent of you are child-free and staying that way. Parents of fat kids are facing a different kind of hell in terms of judgment and stigma and need extra support keeping their kids safe. So I love seeing how clearly that is not the case-but again, this also means we’re holding a lot of different needs together in this space. Some folks at my publisher even worried that calling the book FAT TALK would mean parents of thin kids wouldn’t buy it. A common misconception of my work is that it’s only for the parents of fat kids. (So yes, more teen-focused content is on my to do list!) One interesting twist: 71 percent of you said your kids are straight-sized. Over 65 percent of you are parents, step-parents, grandparents, or another form of caregiver, and the ages of the kids you’re raising run the full gamut. Your body is your business but my business is keeping this space safe for all bodies. This is also why I don’t allow numbers, dieting, and other pro-intentional weight loss conversations in the comments. If you’re here as a straight-sized person, I hope and trust that means you are working to unlearn your anti-fatness and willing to center and learn from the fat folks who do a ton of valuable labor in our comment sections. And I consider platforming marginalized folks to be a primary mission of the podcast. How do you identify in terms of body size?Ĭorinne puts so much thought and care into choosing diverse images (as best we can given the volume of images needed, and the depressing limitations of stock photography). We are not a closed community just for fat folks-those exist and are vital but as a small fat, I’m not the right person to run one-but we are emphatically not a watered down body positive space where thin white ladies with one visible stomach roll are all you’ll ever see. My favorite: “I have a body.” Good news! This is the newsletter for you! I don’t take lightly though, that this level of size diversity makes Burnt Toast somewhat unusual. There were a ton of write-ins for this one, which makes sense. Not surprisingly, we once again do best on body diversity-we are almost evenly divided between straight-sized (51.4 percent) and some flavor of fat (48 percent). But I’m delighted we have people ranging from 18 to 75 reading this-and dismantling our ageism will continue to be an ongoing conversation here. 78 percent of you are between the ages of 25 and 45, which makes sense since we have such a strong parenting focus. 94.2 percent of you are cis women, which also doesn’t surprise me-but trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming folks, I’m so glad you’re here! (The 0.8 percent of you who are cis men are also fine.) A little over 30 percent of you are queer. You are 88.7 percent white, which is a SMIDGE of an improvement over last year’s 91 percent, but we clearly still have more work to do here. ![]()
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