✔️ Clearing up a misconception
In which I clear up a misconception that’s come up a few times lately about my photographic work and its relation to Allgo (canweallgo.com).
15 Plus-Size & Size-Diverse Winter & Holiday Stock Photos
Use these beautiful plus-size pregnancy stock photos from Body Liberation Stock to increase the diversity of your marketing materials, website and social media feeds.
“But being fat is unhealthy”
Every repetition of “But being fat is unhealthy” is a reinforcement of a false, oppressive, racist, unjust set of lies that are perpetuated in the face of all evidence in the service of massive profits and increased power. You heard me. Privilege is unearned, but it’s not something you need to feel bad or guilty…
📖 Unpacking Weight Stigma: New Educator Copies
In which I talk about the Unpacking Weight Stigma workbook series, which helps fat folks and their allies untangle internalized weight stigma and apply their newfound knowledge to the real world. Find all the workbooks:
📖 Unpacking Weight Stigma: New Educator Copies
In which I talk about the Unpacking Weight Stigma workbook series, which helps fat folks and their allies untangle internalized weight stigma and apply their newfound knowledge to the real world. Find all the workbooks here.
The Body Liberation Blanket Fort: Why Discord?
In which I talk about how and why I chose Discord for my body-positive, fat-positive community space. To get access, support my Patreon at any level. It starts at $1 USD per month (and if that’s a hardship for you, please let me know and I’ll be happy to give you free access). Once you…
Body-Positive Journaling Prompt #2: How have your parents affected your body image over time?
Here is this week’s body-positive journaling prompt from Body Liberation Photos.
Ask a Fat Model: Actress & Plus-Size Model Lilith Fury
In this month’s Ask a Fat Creator interview, we’re talking to Kristine Zaftig, a fat and fat-positive artist who showcases women of color in her paintings.
Love this photo? You could be using it in your marketing!
“The images we see—or don’t see—matter. They tell us what’s possible.” » Emily Nagoski The more we see unrealistic, idealized people in advertising and the media, the more it makes us doubt the worth of our own bodies, skin colors, looks and orientations. Thankfully, the world is changing. Customers are demanding better from the companies…
{wandering} Low tide at Deception Pass, WA
A soothing few minutes at one of the beaches of Deception Pass, Washington state.
💘 Is love enough to create a healthy relationship?
In which I talk about whether love is enough to salvage a relationship, whether people can change the direction of their relationships and whether you should keep giving people second chances.
Thin privilege is not having to learn both sewing and pattern making to have clothing that’s fun, stylish, creative, fits well…or just fits, period.
Thin privilege is not having to learn both sewing and pattern making to have clothing that’s fun, stylish, creative, fits well…or just fits, period. One of the most common dismissals that gets thrown at fat folks when we talk about how apparel companies would rather lose money than make clothing for us is, “You can…
Plant chat: Updating my tropical terrarium
I’m taking some time off this week, so I had a chance to revisit my terrarium. I took all the plants out and set them on an unfolded trash bag, then wiped down the lid, inside and outside of the aquarium. I didn’t bother cleaning the bottom, since it’ll just get dirty again. Raymond lifted…
Body-Positive Journaling Prompt #2: How have your parents affected your body image over time?
Here is this week’s body-positive journaling prompt from Body Liberation Photos.
Plant Chat: Tradescantia Day (Houseplants)
In which I demonstrate a) repotting tradescantias and b) why I’m not a plantfluencer. No apologies for the terrible video.
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“The images we see—or don’t see—matter. They tell us what’s possible.” » Emily Nagoski The more we see unrealistic, idealized people in advertising and the media, the more it makes us doubt the worth of our own bodies, skin colors, looks and orientations. Thankfully, the world is changing. Customers are demanding better from the companies…
Listen: Lindley on Love, Food with Julie Duffy Dillon
If you’d like a shorter podcast listen, Love, Food is for you. In each episode, Julie answers a letter from a reader. As a podcast guest, I love this format because I feel like I’m speaking directly to someone out there! This episode is for all who were once theatre kids, or anybody who’s ever…
Listen: Lindley on how businesses can welcome larger bodies on Massage Business Blueprint
I love digging in and talking about the practical aspects of body liberation, especially when it comes to running a business. On Massage Business Blueprint, Allissa, Michael and I discuss how all types of brick-and-mortar businesses can attract and welcome fat folks as customers and clients, including: How to talk about fat bodies (fat? larger…
🚪 Why I set boundaries on my social media posts
In which I talk about why I set no-advice boundaries on some of my posts on Facebook and Instagram, and how you can support people you care about without giving unsolicited advice. Support this work by signing up for my free, beautiful and useful Body Liberation Guide newsletter at bit.ly/bodyliberationguide, and drop a dollar or…
Thin privilege doesn’t make you a bad person or one with super special benefits.
Thin privilege doesn’t make you a bad person or one with super special benefits. The super special benefit is not facing the obstacles placed in the way of fat folks. Your body size is mostly or always included, and you don’t have to constantly think about it. Privilege is unearned, but it’s not something you…
➡️ Thin privilege is a spectrum
In which I talk about how thin privilege — like any other privilege you might have — isn’t just something you have, or don’t have: it’s a spectrum. As you follow the spectrum of human body sizes toward the smaller end, thin privilege increases. As you go towards the larger end of the spectrum, thin…
11 Witchy and Mystical Body-Positive Gifts for Halloween
Find the perfect gift for your partner, lover, friend, or family member for Valentine’s Day in our curated list of body-positive and health at every size-aligned Valentine’s Day gifts.
Listen: Lindley on the Hell Yeah Techcast with Jenn Hume
Every single time I’m asked to be on a podcast, it’s an honor, but it’s an especially big deal to be the very first guest on an existing podcast! Jenn Hume, owner of Hell Yeah Tech, and I talked on her Hell Yeah Techcast about websites, marketing and inclusive stock photography. Jenn is exactly my…
Love this photo? You could be using it in your marketing!
“The images we see—or don’t see—matter. They tell us what’s possible.” » Emily Nagoski The more we see unrealistic, idealized people in advertising and the media, the more it makes us doubt the worth of our own bodies, skin colors, looks and orientations. Thankfully, the world is changing. Customers are demanding better from the companies…
Let’s talk about research.
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)…
⛓️ Breaking the cycle of intergenerational diet culture
In which I talk about how parents pass diet culture to their children across generations, breaking that cycle, and the limits on what parents can do for their kids’ body image.
Body-Positive Journaling Prompt #7: Do you feel attractive?
Here is this week’s body-positive journaling prompt from Body Liberation Photos.
In the Body Love Shop: The mini-book My Body Positive Journey from artist and illustrator Tatiana Gill!
In the Body Love Shop: The mini-book My Body Positive Journey from artist and illustrator Tatiana Gill! This little book is a quarter-size look at one woman’s journey towards body acceptance. Gill’s work is unflinchingly honest and vulnerable. 🔑 Intimate🔑 Honest🔑 Raw🔑 Lived experience
Thin privilege is not having your body used as a shorthand for a long list of negative qualities, characteristics and traits.
Thin privilege is not having your body used as a shorthand for a long list of negative qualities, characteristics and traits. Dolores Umbridge. Ursula. Kingpin. Jabba the Hut. The Dursleys. Fat lawyers and politicians in 150 years of political cartoons. It’s no coincidence that so many villains in books and movies are fat. Their weight…
Origins of Weight Stigma #11: The just-world fallacy
Why do people hate and fear fat bodies? Weight stigma — also known as fatphobia, fatmisia, anti-fatness and fat hatred — ties into threads of power and profit going back centuries. Let’s look at one of the factors: The just world fallacy. Our culture wants us to believe that bodies are simple machines with simple…
{wandering} Mowich Lake, WA
Mowich Lake is one of my favorite semi-hidden Washington day trip destinations. It’s located in Mount Rainier National Park, but getting there requires you to take a separate route from the main park roads, over some (public access) unpaved logging roads that are more or less adventurous depending on how recently they’ve been maintained. The…
🌱 Now for something different: Plant chat
I’ve had a few requests to see my high-humidity plant setup. I am constitutionally incapable of making a short video, but here you go!
😢 Body grief and privilege
In which I discuss the concept of body grief, grieving the loss of body privileges and how to talk about that without reinforcing oppressive beauty ideals. See @bodyimagewithbri for more on body grieving! Find a version with subtitles here. If you’d like to represent actual fat people in your marketing, check out my inclusive stock…
Love this photo? You could be using it in your marketing!
“The images we see—or don’t see—matter. They tell us what’s possible.” » Emily Nagoski The more we see unrealistic, idealized people in advertising and the media, the more it makes us doubt the worth of our own bodies, skin colors, looks and orientations. Thankfully, the world is changing. Customers are demanding better from the companies…
Body-Positive Journaling Prompt #6: What makes a person beautiful to you?
Here is this week’s body-positive journaling prompt from Body Liberation Photos.
Thin privilege is buying clothes off the rack at a brick-and-mortar store.
Thin privilege is buying clothes off the rack at a brick-and-mortar store. This is one of the areas where the spectrum of privilege is really easy to see. The larger your body, the more limits there are on where you can buy clothing, and the options diminish really rapidly. Folks who wear a size 24…
Ask Lindley: “Should I use the word ‘fat?'”
Many fat folks have reclaimed the word and are using it as a neutral descriptor, but to the world at large, “fat” is an insult. So should you be using it?
Sunny Seattle fall plus-size portraits: Dr. Shereen Spriggs
I’m still not officially open for client photography sessions due to the delta COVID variant, but I recently made an exception for a(n outdoor, distanced, vaccinated) group session that’s been in the works since pre-pandemic and will be revealed soon. Dr. Spriggs (she/her) was part of that group, and she stayed for a few minutes…
{wandering} Mount Baker, Table Mountain and fat self-care
I’ve only been to Mount Baker, Washington in the fall, and that’s the way I like it. The time of year of that first visit was coincidental — it was on my trip list and we wanted to get in before the highway closed for the winter — but I don’t know that any other…
{daily life} A chatty gentleman
I had the pleasure of meeting this chatty gent last week and couldn’t resist capturing him enjoying some late afternoon sun! Sarah at @bodypositiveparenting is his chief servant. I love how dubious he looks on that chair; guess he wasn’t expecting the paparazzi to show.
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Body-Positive Journaling Prompt #5: When do you feel most proud of who you are?
Here is this week’s body-positive journaling prompt from Body Liberation Photos.
State of the sleep, September 26
My CPAP machine, which I’ve named Whistler, and I have reached a truce, more or less. My sleep and energy levels are mostly back to normal, and I’m so grateful. That doesn’t mean I sleep perfectly every night, but it’s so, so improved from the sleep deprivation hell I went through last winter. I settled…
🚽 Everyone breaks toilet seats
In which I talk about fat shame around toilet seats. If you’d like to represent actual fat people in your marketing, check out my inclusive stock photo site by clicking Stock Photos at the top of the page, and get three free stock photos every month by signing up for my newsletter:
Business, authenticity and marginalization
In which I talk about how well the standard marketing advice of “be yourself and be authentic” works for marginalized business owners, and balancing safety + authenticity. Get three free high-resolution, body-positive stock photos for your business every month with my newsletter:
🍂 In the Body Love Shop: Cards by @miaohkiillustrations 🍂
In this graceful illustration from artist Mia Ohki, a partially nude woman with long hair and large thighs leans back on one hand. A leaf or leaf tattoo rests between her breasts, and a butterfly perches on one lifted arm. Purchase cards to share or frame:
Thin privilege is not having your body used as a societal scapegoat.
Fat people suffer worse health outcomes due to weight stigma? Blame fat people and call them inherently diseased. Fat people are more at risk from COVID due to biased healthcare? Blame fat people and tell them they deserve it. Fat people can’t buy attractive, well-fitting clothing? Blame fat people and call them frumpy and unfashionable….
#TBT to pre-pandemic boudoir sessions 💜
My photography studio is also my home, and I’m so grateful to have such lovely spaces to work in. It’s also a super comfy and homey environment for my clients. Can’t wait for it to be safe enough to start offering boudoir again…. Sign up below to be the first to know when my calendar…
40 kind words for your body
When you think about bodies — your own or other people’s — what words do you use? Our thoughts and feelings about bodies are shaped by the words we use to describe them. Here are 40 kind, loving descriptive words to replace the negative ones we’ve been taught. Find the written post at https://www.prospecttherapy.com/blog/2018/8/13/guest-blog-post-40-kind-and-positive-words-for-your-body, and…
What’s up with #normalizenormalbodies?
In which I talk about the hashtag #normalizenormalbodies and whether it’s a good thing.