{Podcast Month} Destiny’s Universe with Destiny DiMattei: Fat Liberation and Mental Health
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ One of…
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{Listen} Lindley on the Entrepreneurial Outlaws Podcast with Melanie Knights: Representing yourself as a marginalized business owner
The experience of being a business owner in a marginalized body is very different from the mainstream, and it’s one I spend a lot of…
{Podcast Month} Body Liberation for All with Dalia Kinsey: How Being Yourself Can Change the World
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ If you’ve…
{Listen} Lindley on the Nourished Circle Podcast: Weight stigma in healthcare and what providers can change today
I love talking about ending weight stigma in the real world, and how we get there on a practical level. What does that look like?…
Lindley & Body Liberation Photos
I used to think that I was too fat to be a professional photographer. I thought that no one would hire a fat photographer, that…
{Podcast Month} Food Psych with Christy Harrison: How to Make Peace with Photos of Yourself
✨ December is Podcast Month! I’m spending this month slowing down, taking deep breaths, digging into my own inner world, resting and planning my work…
Listen: Lindley on the Recovery Bites Podcast with Karin Lewis
In this episode, Karin Lewis is joined by Lindley Ashline, photographer, author, cat mom, entrepreneur, musician and activist. Lindley creates photographs that celebrate the unique…
Your guide to Body Liberation Podcast Month 2021
For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year.
Listen: Lindley on Radiant Woman with Tarisha Tourok: Getting off the hook, fatphobia and choosing the right partner for your body type
Tarisha & Lindley discuss the myth that “loving your body is fine, but that can’t be healthy“. Women are afraid that if they love their body, they’ll let…
40+ resources for holiday boundary setting and self care
Holidays are when cultural and social norms are instilled and heavily reinforced. That means those of us who live in fat bodies, or are LGBT+,…
Is body positivity a gateway to fat acceptance?
The other day Laura Burns and I combined two separate analogies we’d come up with to form the theory of the two lakes: Donut Lake…
Creator Month: Body Liberation Artist & Activist Kathryn Hack
“My work began as my attempt to increase representation of fat bodies in art and media. After making hundreds of fat art pieces in the…
Listen: Lindley on the All Fired Up! Podcast on Confidence Magic, Taking on Whole30 and Body Liberation Through Photos
Louise Adams may call her wonderful podcast All Fired Up!, but I think of my episode as a phrase a little closer to my Southern…
Introduction to Discord Workshop – November 28
Learn how to use a powerful place for community! In this friendly and free basic workshop, learn how to use Discord, a popular Facebook alternative.…
Listen: Eating Support & Health at Every Size® Chat with Chelsea Levy Nutrition
I went way out of my comfort zone with Chelsea of Chelsea Levy Nutrition and ate on camera for a special Instagram live eating support…
Listen: Lindley with Amy Rapone on the RadLove Radio Podcast
New podcast drop! I had the chance to talk with Health at Every Size®-aligned and fat-positive nutritionist Amy Rapone on her podcast RadLove Radio. In…
⛺ The Body Liberation Blanket Fort: Boundaries
In which I talk about the boundaries I set with thought and intention to make the Body Liberation Blanket Fort a safer and happier space…
📷 Photography is both prescriptive and descriptive
In which I talk about how photography both describes the world as it is and shapes what the world becomes.
Listen: How Activist Writing Creates Growth with Cat Pausé on the Friend of Marilyn Podcast
In this episode of Friend of Marilyn, Cat Pausé and I talk about the to-be-revived Body Love Box, the Body Liberation Guide and how what you focus on moves you forward.
Creator Month: Sculptor and Illustrator Saya Collins
“The pieces I create are not perfect. They take a bit of me. I’m odd and I’m memorable, I love myself, and I love my…
🥳 🎨 November is Creator Month! 🎨 🥳
I’m so excited to introduce you to an array of fat and marginalized creators (plus an ally or two). We’ll be talking to models, writers,…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I said what I said
Stop asking fat people to hold the discomfort of learning that you have thin privilege.
Listen: Lindley on the Destiny’s Universe Podcast
One of the reasons I talk about vulnerability in business so much is that giving ourselves the grace and space to be vulnerable allows us…
🎤 Help a reporter, change the media narrative and save the world
In which I describe how Health at Every Size®, fat liberation, fat acceptance, and body positivity advocates can use the Help a Reporter Out (HARO)…
Instant replay: Instagram Live – Kids, Body Image and Health at Every Size®
Today I’m asking body-positive and Health at Every Size®-aligned nanny and parent consultant Sarah @bodypositiveparenting all about her job, including: 🚸 What does a body-positive nanny do?…
“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…
📖 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…
📖 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…
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…
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.
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…
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,…
🚪 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…
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…
➡️ 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:…
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…
⛓️ 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…
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.…
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…
😢 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…
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…
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?
🚽 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…
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…
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…
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…
What’s up with #normalizenormalbodies?
In which I talk about the hashtag #normalizenormalbodies and whether it’s a good thing.
“Guilt can be replaced with a clarifying anger”
“You would be surprised how seldom it occurs to people that their problems are not their fault. By focusing on fairness and justice, a patient…
Why are fat people so mean?
In which I discuss why you might not get the reaction you want or expect when you interact with fat folks in the fat acceptance,…
“Does it get any easier? Or does it just get harder the more vocal you get?”
Reader M. asks, “Does it get any easier? Or does it just get harder the more vocal you get? I had a situation in which…