I refuse to feel shame after eating – but it saddens me that so many women still do
I thought moralised comments about eating were a thing of the past, but then I went on a girls’ holiday.
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Amelia Tait
Amelia Tait is a freelance journalist, and was previously tech and digital culture writer at the New Statesman.
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