{Upcoming Events} in the Body Liberation Blanket Fort

{Upcoming Events} in the Body Liberation Blanket Fort

Here’s what’s coming up over in the Blanket Fort in the next couple of weeks: Thursday, Aug 10 Sensory-Friendly Body Doubling – 10 am PST Craft Night & Hangout – 5 pm PST Monday, Aug 14 Body Doubling – 10 am PST Body Liberation Guide released (free) Wednesday, Aug 16 Body Liberation Guide+ released (Patreon…

{The Body Liberation Guide} A celebration, a request, a frustrated grump and a note for supporters
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{The Body Liberation Guide} A celebration, a request, a frustrated grump and a note for supporters

A mother and daughter I photographed in Salt Lake City in 2019. This is a bits-and-pieces week: a celebration, a request, a frustrated grump and a note for supporters.  Let’s start with the celebration! Last week, the Body Liberation Guide went out to 5,317 of you. The rate at which y’all open these emails is spectacular, too – almost…

{The Body Liberation Guide} Doing the math
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{The Body Liberation Guide} Doing the math

A sneak peek of my shots from my dear friend K.’s wedding. I’m currently booking portrait and boudoir sessions» This week, I want to build a bit on what I told you in last week’s letter about how getting into media articles works. I talked a bit about the calculation that goes into responding to…

{The Body Liberation Guide} Do plus-size passengers deserve a bigger seat on a plane?
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{The Body Liberation Guide} Do plus-size passengers deserve a bigger seat on a plane?

An image I created at the 2019 NAAFA convention in Las Vegas, NV. Browse stock photos of fat people» The subject line of this email – Do plus-size passengers deserve a bigger seat on a plane? – is the title of an article in the Dallas Morning News in which I was quoted this week.  The article itself is pretty…

A dark blue background with this text faintly overlaid: "having privileges is not your fault - it does not make you a bad person - it is your responsibility to extend those privileges to everyone who lacks them." Layered on this is the title of the post plus Lindley's logo
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100+ Examples of Thin Privilege

“Privilege is a set of unearned benefits given to people who fit into a specific social group. Thin privilege is backed and promoted by a multi-billion dollar diet/wellness industry.” » Cori Rosenthal The longest-running series over on the Body Liberation Photos Instagram and Facebook pages is my thin privilege series. A common objection to the…

I guess we need to talk about NEDA | The Body Liberation Guide
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I guess we need to talk about NEDA | The Body Liberation Guide

A leafy summer botanical boudoir session with R. Learn more about my boudoir sessions » Hi friend, A quick note before we get started: I’m now on the new social platform Threads as @bodyliberationwithlindley. I guess we need to talk about NEDA – the (American) National Eating Disorders Association – today. Honestly, I was reluctant, because they’ve been…

A group photo of the crew at One Connection Healthcare, a Health at Every Size®-aligned primary care office in Ballard, WA
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The images we see—or don’t see—matter | The Body Liberation Guide

A group photo of the crew at One Connection Healthcare, a Health at Every Size®-aligned primary care office in Ballard, WA. Learn more about my small business photo sessions » Last week, I had the joy of attending this year’s Weight Stigma Conference. I tuned in remotely – the conference itself was in Denver this year, but for the…

A plus-size Black woman closes her eyes and smiles in the sunshine while holding a wing-pattern scarf behind her head in front of water and a cloudy sky.
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Black Voices on Juneteenth 2024

What is Juneteenth? Why do we celebrate it? And how can white people help Black people on this day without taking over? Juneteenth is on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Since as of 2021, Juneteenth is now a U.S. federal holiday, more white people are aware of its existence, and thus more white people need to…

Next week's schedule for the Body Liberation Blanket Fort, a body-positive safer space

Upcoming events in the Body Liberation Blanket Fort

Here’s what’s coming up over in the Blanket Fort in the next couple of weeks. The Body Liberation Blanket Fort is my closed, diet-talk-free community for Patreon supporters on Discord. People of all sizes are welcome, and we center fat folks and other marginalized groups. What the Fort is: 🌲 A community space open to…

8 Books and Resources on Weight, Faith and Spirituality
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8 Books and Resources on Weight, Faith and Spirituality

“There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional, and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are…

Then what am I supposed to talk about? | The Body Liberation Guide
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Then what am I supposed to talk about? | The Body Liberation Guide

I first wrote this piece in November 2020, but it unfortunately hasn’t lost any of its relevance, as Donald Trump continues to be in the news. (For folks outside the U.S., feel free to swap in any larger-bodied politician of relevance.) A perennial problem is cropping up yet again: the fatphobia of the American left….

The one with the broken-heart bullets | The Body Liberation Guide
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The one with the broken-heart bullets | The Body Liberation Guide

Once a friend of mine observed that in their daily life, they just felt like they didn’t see many fat people at all. And it’s true: fat people are often missing from public life, especially very fat people. Why might that be? BMI is bull, but let’s use the master’s tool for a moment to…

10 Tips for Making Your Weight Management Practice More Weight Inclusive | The Body Liberation Guide
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10 Tips for Making Your Weight Management Practice More Weight Inclusive | The Body Liberation Guide

One of the most important issues facing weight management, bariatric, dietetic, endocrinology, special interest groups, and other provider groups and practices today is weight stigma. It’s important to update your resources, handouts, training, certifications and other materials to remove stigmatizing language in order to improve patient compliance and positively impact clients.  Here are ten ways…