The must-have guide for all artists who draw the human figure! In Morpho: Fat and Skin Folds, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella presents a unique approach to learning to draw the human body. The typical approach to teaching anatomy and the sketching of the human form most often focuses on the skeleton and musculature. What…
In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done. Sugar was transformed into the common enemy in a revived ‘war on obesity’ levelled at ‘unhealthy’ foods and the people who enjoy them. Are the evils of sugar…
Hi friend, An ongoing pandemic, skyrocketing cost of living and ongoing cultural and political upheaval all over the world have sent relationships that were previously “grin, grit your teeth and get through it” territory over into chaos and active conflict. At the same time, we humans seek closeness and community. We want and need celebration and…
By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is bad. By middle school, more than a quarter of them have gone on a diet. What are parents supposed to do? Kids learn, as we’ve all learned, that thinness is a survival strategy in a world that equates body size and value. Parents…
Movement/fitness/exercise by any definition is never an obligation or barometer of worthiness. But for fat people who want to move our bodies within a fat positive, Health at Every Size framework – whether it’s because we enjoy it, or because of the benefit(s) we get from it (even if we don’t enjoy it,) whatever our reasons, a fatphobic culture can create barriers, misinformation, and other difficulties for us. In this workshop we’ll explore tips, tricks, and information to help us move our bodies for our own reasons, within a fat positive framework. (This workshop can also be helpful to fitness pros who want to create a fat-positive practice!)
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With family gatherings, work parties, New Years bashes, New Years Resolutions, and a ton of diet ads… the holiday season can be a perfect storm of diet culture, weight stigma, and other nonsense. You’ll leave this workshop with perspectives, reframes, tips, tricks, and practical techniques to help you deal with everything from holiday diet ads to workplace weight loss talk to the family and friends food police so that you can have a happy holiday season on our own terms – whether you celebrate any holidays or not.
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In the Dealing with Fatphobia at Work Workshop, we’ll talk about how fatphobia can create all kinds of challenges and difficulties in the workplace that fat people are left to navigate in order to simply make a living. These things aren’t our fault, but do become our problem so we’ll discuss options for navigating fatphobia at work.
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In this workshop Nicola and Ragen will discuss all aspects of reproductive care for fat patients, including dealing with weight stigma at the ob/gyn, debunking myths about fat pregnancy, the basics of getting pregnant in a fat body, and information about IUI and IVF, and birth control including emergency contraception and abortion care. This talk will be both weight and gender inclusive.
In the Dealing With Fatphobia At The Doctor’s Office workshop, we discuss tips, tricks, and techniques for getting competent, evidence-based, weight-neutral (and sometimes even fat-positive!) care from doctors and other healthcare practitioners, even in a fatphobic healthcare system
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In the Overcoming Internalized Fatphobia workshop we’ll learn how to uncover the fatphobic beliefs that we’ve internalized from our fatphobic society, understand how they are affecting us, apply practical options for dealing with them and, finally, learn how to make sure we don’t internalize new fatphobia in the future. We’ll learn how to stop fighting our bodies on behalf of weight stigma, and start fighting weight stigma on behalf of our bodies.
In the Talking Back To Faphobia workshop, we discuss options for dealing with the fatphobia we face as we navigate the world – from responses that encourage dialog, to responses that encourage people to leave us TF alone.
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The Good Fat Fight Workshop. We are never obligated to debate our right to exist. Still, we can find ourselves in the position of wanting, or needing, to make a case/debate/argue for size acceptance or the weight-neutral health paradigm with family, friends, teachers, healthcare providers, people on the internet, and more. In this workshop, you’ll learn response options for common arguments against size acceptance and weight-neutral health, as well as techniques for crafting, framing, and delivering arguments, and for protecting yourself from the weight stigma that these conversations can generate..
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It’s been a dream of mine to create this card deck. Jess helped me realize this dream and make it beautiful. This 50-Card deck invites you to step into a practice of Fat Self-Care every day.
The fat self-care deck was created to remind you that your body is not actually the problem, and to help widen the lens. Theses cards work in helping you realign with your true nature. To return you back to a place where your body is a vessel for your most precious being and the smallest part of who you are. We wish you body peace, and an endless flow of fat self-care.
Here is a bit about our designer:
Jess (aka Fat Designer) is an illustrator, graphic designer, teacher, and fat human. She loves to make things using bright colors, whimsical characters, and depictions of fat joy. Jess can often be found singing off-key to her cats, listening to vinyl records, and eating chicken nuggets.
These prints are handmade with a literal old-school letterpress in partnership with Layla Cameron from Stay Fat Design Co., where the prints are also on sale! I have signed all of these on the back side to keep the print clean, though if you’d like yours signed on the front, please just let me know in the “notes” section when you check out.
Limited edition handmade letterpress print on thick cotton paper.
Size: 5.125 x 7 in
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Mary, why would you hope to be “fat forever”?
The short answer is because I really do love being fat. I used to think that people that looked like me were lying, saying things like “I’m happy in my body” to make themselves feel better because no one *actually* would choose to be fat, right? The amount of space that trying to be thin took up in my brain and in my life was enormous. The shapewear, the scales, the dieting, the exercising compulsively, the secret eating, the shame, the destructive behaviors. When I was at my thinnest, I was smoking a pack a day and getting blackout drunk every night. I was starving myself during the day and bingeing at night. But to everyone else, I had done a great job: I was thinner! I got so many compliments about my weight loss and the praise was intoxicating, which made the inevitable rebounding of weight gain feel that much more shameful. The feelings of failure were at times, debilitating. Then I’d start a new diet, and go through the whole cycle again! It was literally madness.
I am grateful for being queer because it gave me a template to understand that some people might see my queerness as something akin to failure (as in, I failed at being straight), and at one point in my journey, I am sad to say that I would have done anything to take a magic pill to be straight or thin. But I’m not either of those things, and whether or not I was “born this way” doesn’t really matter. This is my body, and I am no longer ashamed of the space that it takes up. Truthfully, I have no attachment to what my body looks like, but I really love the way being fat feels. Not that it’s anyone’s business, but I quit smoking in a fat body, I quit drinking in a fat body, I stopped binge eating in a fat body, I ran a 5K in a fat body, I have done herculean trauma work in a fat body, and composed a film score in a fat body. For me, being fat has been transformative and so joyful.
The argument people use against fat people regarding “health” is demoralizing, inaccurate, and ableist. Health is subjective. There are a lot of places you can learn about anti-diet work and fat liberation, and if this print or this idea makes you uncomfortable, I urge you to seek out work from fat activists. I have a workshop that centers around fat liberation called Everybody is a Babe, but there are so many brilliant folks that educate and speak on this subject: Caleb Luna, Ragen Chastain, Asher Larmie, Da’Shaun L. Harrison, Aubrey Gordon, Sonya Renee Taylor, Sabrina Strings, and of course, my collaborator in this project, Layla Cameron.
A maternity session sneak peek for R., who made those adorable vintage clothes, and some representation for all the pregnant fat folks who feel like they don’t look “pregnant enough.” 💜
A fat woman relaxes in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A plus-size white woman with tattoos on her arms and purple hair to match her lipstick and eyeshadow smiles confidently while she poses on an ottoman with her hands over her stomach while wearing black lingerie
A fat woman floats in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman floats in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman floats in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
The contours of a fat woman’s body are shown in this close-up image, including stretch marks, skin texture, rolls and cellulite.
The contours of a fat woman’s body are shown in this close-up image, including stretch marks, skin texture, rolls and cellulite.
The contours of a fat woman’s body are shown in this close-up image, including stretch marks, skin texture, rolls and cellulite.
A plus-size woman’s arm rolls and belly rolls in soft focus and gentle lighting
A plus-size woman wearing a lace bra with her rolls showing; tattooed arms in the background.
A plus-size white woman with tattoos on her arms and purple hair to match her lipstick and eyeshadow smiles confidently while she poses on an ottoman with her hands over her stomach while wearing black lingerie
A plus size woman in a blue floral swimsuit mirrored sunglasses and red lipstick sits in on the stony beach on a red suitcase, giving the camera an alluring look
A fat woman floats in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman floats in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman floats in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman relaxes in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman relaxes in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman relaxes in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman relaxes in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman floats in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman floats in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman floats in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman floats in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman floats in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman floats in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman floats in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman floats in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman floats in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman floats in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman relaxes in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman relaxes in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
A fat woman relaxes in a blue hot tub in a backyard garden.
