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Body Positive New Year’s Resolutions: A Mini Resource Guide
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Body Positive New Year’s Resolutions: A Mini Resource Guide

ByLindley Ashline

Depending on your personality and life commitments, the turning of the year may be a time for deep peace and reflection or a wild whirl of parties and celebrations. But as New Year’s Day approaches, many of us are becoming more aware of the day’s ever-present accompaniment: Resolutions. New Year’s resolutions are by their very…

Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living

Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living

ByLindley Ashline

Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls is a manifesto and call to arms for people of all sizes and ages. With her trademark wit, veteran blogger and advocate Jes Baker calls people everywhere to embrace a body-positive worldview, changing perceptions about weight, and making mental health a priority. Alongside notable guest essayists, Jes shares…

Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass

Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass

ByLindley Ashline

By the author of Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls and a heroine of the body image movement, an intimate, gutsy memoir about being a fat woman Jes Baker burst onto the body positivity scene when she created her own ads mocking Abercrombie & Fitch for discriminating against all body types — a move…

Other F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce

Other F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce

ByLindley Ashline

The definitive collection of art, poetry, and prose, celebrating fat acceptance Chubby. Curvy. Fluffy. Plus-size. Thick. Fat. The time has come for fat people to tell their own stories. The (Other) F Word combines the voices of Renée Watson, Julie Murphy, Jes Baker, Samantha Irby, Bruce Sturgell, and more in a relatable and gift-worthy guide…

9 Foundational 101 Reads for Health at Every Size (HAES)
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9 Foundational 101 Reads for Health at Every Size (HAES)

ByLindley Ashline

In a time of Facebook groups, Instagram threads and blog posts, many of us first encounter Health at Every Size (or HAES for short) and pick up some of its principles in online discussions. But when you’re ready to dig deeper, where should you go first? There are a thousand articles and thousands more blog…

Romance at Every Size: An Interview with Body Positive Romance Author Amity Lassiter
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Romance at Every Size: An Interview with Body Positive Romance Author Amity Lassiter

ByLindley Ashline

“Storytelling is the essence of who we are. And so stories themselves are capsules of who we are—they represent our hopes, our dreams, our fears, and our goals.” – Kate Sullivan Representation in fiction can be a transformative experience. We infuse the stories we find of people like us with lots of additional meaning because…

LISTEN: Lindley on the Fat Face Feelings Podcast (with Transcript)
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LISTEN: Lindley on the Fat Face Feelings Podcast (with Transcript)

ByLindley Ashline

It’s always a delight to talk with one of the Fat Faces, Eron, and this time we did it on the record! (Amanda is also a delight, but was absent that day, alas.) We dig deep into my entrepreneurial journey, why I chose to work with fat folks, and your official permission to take care…

{body positive boudoir} You don’t have to smile to be sexy
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{body positive boudoir} You don’t have to smile to be sexy

ByLindley Ashline

  You don’t have to smile to be sexy. Or be sultry. No, seriously. Your natural expressions are what’s sexy. Some people are serious. Some people are giggly. Some people are both, or neither. And whichever comes naturally to you, without feeling like you’re “performing” sexiness, will be the perfect expression for you. At her…

A teal square with a chat bubble and the words, "Fat bodies are just treated as this horrifying mystery in the photography community. And I got mad! Fat people deserve to have somewhere they can come and feel safe and accepted and attractive and worthy." Lindley's logo is at the bottom.
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LISTEN: Lindley on the Fashion for All podcast with Mallorie Dunn

ByLindley Ashline

Image description: A teal square with a chat bubble and the words, “Fat bodies are just treated as this horrifying mystery in the photography community. And I got mad! Fat people deserve to have somewhere they can come and feel safe and accepted and attractive and worthy.” Lindley’s logo is at the bottom. “Fat people…

LISTEN: Everyday activism, using your power and fat admirers with Sara Stanizai (with transcript)
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LISTEN: Everyday activism, using your power and fat admirers with Sara Stanizai (with transcript)

ByLindley Ashline

Think you can’t support a movement from your corner of the world? Think again! In this Instagram Live, Sara Stanizai, LMFT and I talk about capital-A activism (with hand gestures), using your power to change the world, what counts as activism and simple ways you can help the fat folks in your life. Listen to…

Ask a Fat Creator: Yoga Therapist and Artist Manager Krystal Thompson
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Ask a Fat Creator: Yoga Therapist and Artist Manager Krystal Thompson

ByLindley Ashline

Krystal Thompson of The Luscious Life helps people struggling with their relationship with their body and their relationship with food. Working as a Yoga Therapist over the past 9 years, she has been dedicated to educating, empowering and assisting individuals so that they can take an active role in their healing and wellness. Lately her…

Bodies in the Media and Why Representation Matters on Femtastic
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Bodies in the Media and Why Representation Matters on Femtastic

ByLindley Ashline

Katie Breen interviews Lindley Ashline, founder of stock photography website Representation Matters (now Body Liberation Stock). Lindley explains why it’s so important that we see representations of diverse bodies in the media, and how she uses her platform to create stock imagery featuring people in all types of bodies – large bodies, brown and black…