{Podcast Month} Eff Sh*t Up Friday with Dr. Melissa Bird

ByLindley Ashline December 14, 2021November 29, 2021

✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨

What do boudoir photography, subscription boxes and stock photos have in common? What even is a stock photo? How does body liberation play into all this? In this video, I chat with the wonderful Dr. Melissa Bird @birdgirl1001 about all this and more.

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Eff Sh*t Up Friday with Dr. Melissa Bird (with Transcript)

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Lindley Ashline

Hi there! I'm Lindley. I create artwork that celebrates the unique beauty of bodies that fall outside conventional "beauty" standards at Body Liberation Photography. I'm also the creator of Body Liberation Stock and the Body Love Shop, a curated central resource for body-friendly artwork and products. Find all my work here at bodyliberationphotos.com.

A fat woman's back is shown in black and white, with rolls, stretch marks and other skin texture.

Changing the World

Let’s talk about research.

ByLindley Ashline October 8, 2021October 8, 2021

Let’s talk about research. When it comes to weight and health, everyone’s a scientist. People who haven’t picked up a textbook in twenty years are suddenly confident that they know more about fat people’s bodies than the fat people themselves do. What’s more, they know just what fat people should be doing (or not doing)…

Body Liberation Guide | End Weight Stigma | Resource Guides

Your fat activism guide to The Whale | The Body Liberation Guide

ByLindley Ashline September 14, 2022September 14, 2022

Hi friend, The big news in the fat-related world this week is Brendan Fraser’s hideously fatphobic new movie called The Whale. Since there’s been so much commentary, rather than including it in The Conversation section, I’ve given it its own list down in the Quick Resources.

Body Liberation Guide | End Weight Stigma | Resource Guides

{The Body Liberation Guide} Should you use the word fat?

ByLindley Ashline September 26, 2023September 26, 2023

Client J. at her Confidence session this week. I’m currently booking boudoir & portrait photo sessions» It’s been a few weeks since you’ve heard from me, and it was because I was out having a lovely time wandering around California on an epic road trip. I’m coming to understand that, just as much as any…

Changing the World | End Weight Stigma | Thin Privilege

{Thin privilege} is the ability to forget that fat people exist.

ByLindley Ashline November 14, 2024November 14, 2024

Thin privilege is the ability to forget that fat people exist. Despite there being more fat people in the United States than thin people, thin folks like to act like — and occasionally seem to believe that — we simply don’t exist. Living in a thin body is to exist in a bubble where everyone…

A fat white woman stands facing away from the camera, wearing black panties, with her hands spread over her butt.

Changing the World | Thin Privilege

{body liberation} Should you be the judge?

ByLindley Ashline February 25, 2022February 19, 2022

Something I often see happen when fat folks talk about something or someone fatphobic is thin folks treating this as optional knowledge. Something they can choose whether to believe. Most recently it was in yet another discussion about Brene Brown, who’s been openly fatphobic her whole career and has blithely ignored the multiple fat folks…

Body Liberation Guide | End Weight Stigma | Resource Guides

I dug deep in my personal folders for this one | The Body Liberation Guide

ByLindley Ashline February 14, 2023February 14, 2023

Something I think we need to be very cautious about as we fight fatphobia and weight stigma is that it’s very easy for us to deplore those things primarily when they happen to people in bodies we find worthy.

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