Stop saying that weight loss doesn’t solve anything.
Here’s one concrete action you can take to help end weight stigma: Stop saying that weight loss doesn’t solve anything. And I’m going to need…
Changing the World
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Why fat folks don’t want to help make your organization inclusive
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In Conversation with Lindley Ashline – Why Therapists Should Use More Diverse Stock Photos
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Huzzah! You saved the princess.
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A re-introduction
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Now available: Body Liberation Quote Library
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That time I took on Whole30 headquarters
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8 Ways to Make Your Business More Body Positive
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Instant thin privilege
Bear with me for a moment while I get a bit nerdy. Trust, there are fat politics coming up, as usual. Especially during these pandemic…
It’s time we talked about Brené Brown.
Here’s one simple action you can take to help end discrimination against fat bodies this week: Believe fat people when we say something is fatphobic, specifically the works of Brené Brown, Anita Johnston, Geneen Roth and Bessel van der Kolk.
LISTEN: Lindley on the Fashion for All podcast with Mallorie Dunn
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Where are all the fat people?
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A space just for us
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“Can’t we all just celebrate progress?”
One of the most common pieces of pushback I see against fat acceptance and the need to represent fat and very fat people is, “Why are you so negative? Can’t we all just celebrate all the progress that’s been made? You’re so divisive!” It’s often accompanied by more-enlightened-than-thou comments about wanting to focus on “the good,” as if those of us confronting oppression are somehow more negative than those who want to cover up and ignore it.
Ask a Fat Creator: Kristine Zaftig
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.
The 11 reasons why people hate fat people
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These are the days your body was built for
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One easy way to end weight stigma
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LISTEN: Lindley on Soul Sessions with Jodie Gale (with transcript)
An under-analyzed part of diet culture is where it intersects with class and socioeconomic status. I talked about this a bit on my episode of Food Psych, and had a chance to explore it in more depth in this discussion with Jodie Gale on the Soul Sessions podcast.
If we could opt out of oppression, would we still “deserve” it?
If we could opt out of oppression, would we still “deserve” it?
Ask a Fat Creator: Jaime Patterson
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The difference between helping and Helping
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LISTEN: Lindley on Body Liberation for All with Dalia Kinsey (with transcript)
In this podcast episode, Dalia Kinsey and I discuss the functions of propaganda, intersectionality and fatphobia, emotional labor and the world’s most important subjects, cats and plants.
Based on a True Body: How Running Photos Lie to Us and Why it Matters
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Ask Lindley: How do I deal with fatphobia and diet talk at work?
Reader E. asks, “Dear Lindley, I’m working on accepting my body, but it’s so hard to sit at work and have to listen to diet talk all the time. How can I deal with this?”
Well-done steak and spray tans
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Trauma dumping is oppression in action.
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Ask a Fat Creator: Danielle Gregori
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Erica’s Story: “I am allowed to feel like I have value.”
For people in very large bodies, who are most affected by the physical and infrastructural inequalities built into a world that is designed to exclude…
My body image advice for younger people
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WATCH: Lindley on Fat Product Reviews with Chrystal Bougon (with Transcript)
Because I have my fat fingers in so many pies, this chat with Chrystal Bougon of Curvy Girl Lingerie and All Bodies Electrolysis touches on…
Good fat people, healthcare and the edge
One part of interacting with healthcare providers while living in a fat body is that your value and worth as a patient are always, always…
LISTEN: Lindley on Conjuring Up Courage with Shohreh Davoodi (with Transcript)
What do anger and art have in common? Shohreh Davoodi and I talk about it — and lots more — on episode 53 of her…
Ask Lindley: Thin privilege, rage and the spotlight
My friend P. asks, “It was a total shock to me to be told that I’m small fat. For me it was like being told…
LISTEN: Everyday activism, using your power and fat admirers with Sara Stanizai (with transcript)
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…
Ask a Fat Creator: Lisa Daughters
This is the Body Liberation Photos Ask a Fat Creator (and Allies) series, in which we find out more about the lives, work and breakfasts…
It’s definitely the fat kids’ fault.
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LISTEN: Lindley on the Rising Whole Podcast (with Transcript)
On this episode of the Rising Whole podcast, Prim Ormanovich and I talk about how coherency in your business comes from having an underlying ethical…
LISTEN: Lindley on PowerPivot with Leela Sinha (with Transcript)
So many of the dynamics around bodies, weight and worth are really about power, and it was fascinating to dig into those power dynamics with…
How would you know?
When someone in a marginalized body shares a deep fear with you and your first answer is, “Well, I work in that field and I’ve…
Ask a Fat Creator: Vanessa Ferreira
This is the Body Liberation Photos Ask a Fat Creator (and Allies) series, in which we find out more about the lives, work and breakfasts…
Are you not angry, too?
You can assign points to food and you can talk about calories in calories out and you can talk about willpower and you can talk…
Let’s talk about the Renfrew Center, Harin Feibish and the persistent fear and hatred of fat and fatness in eating disorder treatment.
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For the folks who are losing it
The first two paragraphs of the thought below deserve a content note for violence and fat hatred, though the rest doesn’t. Please protect yourself as…
The mental load of living in a fat body
Today I’m thinking about the mental load of living as a fat person and how it’s affected by one small example: this Renfrew newsletter mess.…
“In The Grip Of Hunger” (probably the most triggering thing I’ll post in 2020)
Content note: Open bigotry; fatphobia in a medical and healthcare treatment setting. Image is Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” “As I sit across from my 5’…
When you speak, who listens?
Imagine a (pre-COVID) concert hall, filled with a cheering, applauding crowd. Imagine a stage full of performers in bright colors and full voice. Imagine a…
Ask a Fat Ally: Dietitian Meghan Cichy
This is the Body Liberation Photos Ask a Fat Creator (and Allies) series, in which we find out more about the lives, work and breakfasts…