{across the fatosphere} October 8

Here’s what’s interesting me this week in body liberation and more:

» Allyship opportunity: Help keep this fat-positive care collective open (see)

» my thighs are the size that they are. my knees do not GO all the way together without extreme discomfort. (read)

» Our First Year: A zine by Fat Club Brighton (see)

» How anti-fatness harms us: and how to protect ourselves according to science! (read)

» New podcast: The Body Trust Podcast (listen)

» Is everyone on Ozempic? (read)

» Shops that stock and specialize in plus size vintage (see)

» Pediatricians’ o* guidelines rest on shaky evidence about eating disorder risks (read)

» Can we just stop measuring people’s bodies, please? (read)

» Cloudflare now allows you to block all generative AI crawler bots. (read)

» LinkedIn is training AI on you — unless you opt out with this setting (read)

» PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November. Here’s how to opt out. (read)