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Amazon Says “Stick a Fork In Him, He’s Fat”
For today’s Say Something Sunday post I want to talk about activism that reader Wendy Dirks recently engaged in (and gave me permission to share with you.) Wendy e-mailed me about an advertisement she...
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#ImFlattered Talks Back To Fashion Bashing
SmartGlamour, an NYC based size-inclusive clothing company, has created a campaign called #ImFlattered. In the campaign women appear wearing clothing that they’ve been told is not “flattering” for...
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Losing It With Jillian Michaels
Not everyone can combine body shaming, inaccurate information about health and fitness, and cultural incompetence – but Jillian Michaels sure can. A while ago some troll signed me up for Jillian...
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When My Body Became My Friend
Photo by Substantia Jones for http://www.adipositivity.com I had an uncomfortable epiphany on my path to body love. I was near the beginning of my journey and I was working on getting to a place of...
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Things “Fat” Doesn’t Mean
Reader Kele sent me this question (and gave me permission to blog about it!) A friend of mine, who is herself fattish, shared a screenshot on Facebook today. I commented that in a way I understood...
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Dillard’s Body-Shames Teen Girl
Over 100 people told me about a Facebook post in which a mom talks about how a salesperson at Dillard’s showed us exactly how not to sell dresses to teenage girls (or really, anybody) Let’s look at it...
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The Worst Reason to Lose Weight
Today I’m not talking about people’s individual reasons to attempt to manipulate their body size. People are allowed to do whatever they want with their bodies including trying to shrink them and it’s...
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Model Fat Bashes, Then Claims To Be The Victim
Alysse Dalessandro, a fashion and beauty writer, and designer for the brand Ready To Stare, posted an excellent article from Everyday Feminism called “11 Reasons Your ‘Concern’ for Fat People’s Health...
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How Fat People Deserve To Be Treated
I talk a lot about how poorly fat people are treated (with shame, stigma, bullying, and oppression) and how that is at odds with how we deserve to be treated. I say things like “we have the right to...
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Study: Fat, Stigma, and Missing the Point
One of the things that helps perpetuate stigma and hold oppression in place is peoples’ tendency, when told about someone else’s experience of stigma and oppression, to immediately engage in an attempt...
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