body image
Rebecca Alexander Wants to Make It Easier to Be Fat in Public
It’s profound to live in a body that’s so normal, and yet no one designs for.
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Unshakeable Shame: No One Can Escape the Wedding Industry’s Fatphobia
There’s power to be found when brides refuse the industry its thinness obsession and shape the day on their own terms.
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Deadly Dieting Tools: Who Loses When Weight Watchers Sets Its Eyes on Children?
Apps like Kurbo only make the transformation from healthy eating to disordered eating to eating disorder more efficient.
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5 Fat-Positive Podcasts Feminists Should to Listen To
I am particularly fond of personality-driven podcasts hosted by fat people that center around our myriad experiences.
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Model Sawyer Devuyst Kicks Sand on Myths About Beach Season
There’s nothing wrong with my body being a trans body.
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Popaganda: Body Positive Beach Times
The beach is supposed to be a place of relaxation. But, as we all know far too well, it’s also a place of high anxiety. Nothin’ puts body positive feelings to the test quite like slipping into what’s essentially colorful underwear and parading around in the midday sun in front of a bunch... Read more »
Thor’s “Endgame” Weight Gain Should Have Been More Than a Punch Line
There’s a longstanding assumption that fat people feel less pain or sadness than non-fat people, and that they both deserve and can handle less-than-human treatment.
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Body Freedom: Shemekka Epps Should Get to Have It Too
She’s Gotta Have It buys into the idea that self-love and body modification can’t coexist.
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No Fluffy Self-Love: Sonalee Rashatwar Is Returning Body Positivity to Its Political Roots
What are we rejecting within us by rejecting fat people?
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6 Fat Writers, Activists and Athletes Who Defy Traditional Femininity
Lots of people needed what I was looking for: people as fierce, fun, and fat-positive as the ones I already loved—just less femme.
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