This week marks ten years that I’ve been in the Seattle area! Here’s a shot from one of the very first boudoir sessions I photographed here. Want to book your own session? Click the button below. {Image: A fat Hawaiian woman gazes up at the camera in a close-up shot that shows her serious face,…
Every human body is worthy of being seen, no matter whether it is “healthy.” {Image: A fat white person with shirt drawn up to show their belly. Their belly has red sores on it.}
Imagine taking a photo doesn’t scare the living sh*t out of you.. but actually excites you? Imagine looking at a photo + appreciating the experience [instead of mentally photoshopping your body] Imagine seeing your body as art + pictures as a form of self expression? What if we told you this is possible? We know…
Hi friend, We’re trying something new this week. I’m adding writings like these to a new collection in the Body Liberation Blanket Fort Patreon, and buying access to the collection will give you access to this and every other piece that’s added to that collection in the future. (Or, subscribe to the Patreon and get…
Hi friend, I am freaking delighted to share this new Body Liberation Stock collection with you: a set of original, exclusive images from artist Kat Max. Kat (who you may have known in the past as Kathryn Hack) is one of the fat-positive artists whose work I admire most, and it’s such an honor to collaborate with her….
Hi friend, Project Heal asked me to weigh in (pun intended) for Weight Stigma Awareness Week on a topic I’d been meaning to revisit: body positivity versus body liberation. What’s the difference, and why does it matter? Here’s a short excerpt: After centuries of racism-driven weight stigma, 75 years of diet culture telling us that…
It’s time to be seen. As a fat photographer + body image coach – we know the complexity of emotions that come up behind the lens. And we are ready to show you HOW to move through this picture grief Is this you: This is what we call picture grief. And healing it is NOT…
A plus size Black woman is shown nude with rolls and breasts visible in a relaxed pose, laying on her hip with one leg flat and the other bent, one arm supporting her and the other laying casually across her knee. She’s paint4ed in shades of green, teal, and black with white highlights against a…
A green fat body figure lies on their stomach above the words Shelter in Place. Trees with green leaves grow from their back, shoulders and legs.
A superfat woman is shown with her wrists crossed over her head, a pose of surrender, in a dark cream, black, white, blue and purple against a paper background with text overlaying saying “I am love” repeated across the image.
A plus size Black trans person stands confidently, shirtless with top surgery scars, one hand on their hip and the other delicately laying against their chest. Their skin is green and blue with pink outlines, including their hair and glasses, and a pair of leggings on their lower half. The background is pink with orange…
A plus size woman is shown nude in a stretching pose, her legs bent beneath her and one arm bent over her head while she stretches to one side. Her skin is painted in blues and teals with white sketched outlines. Matching script above her head reads “Fat Magic”
A plus size woman is shown nude with rolls and breasts visible in a relaxed pose, laying on her hip with one leg flat and the other bent, one arm supporting her and the other laying casually across her knee. Her skin is transparent, allowing us to see a rainbow overlay underneath with text reading…
A plus size Black woman is shown sitting nude with her legs apart, knees bent, and her arms raised over her head in a celebratory pose. Her outlines are sketched in green, and her body is shaded with green, teal, white, purple, and red. Text overlaying the center of the image reads “FAT Awakening”
A plus size woman is illustrated looking over her shoulder at the viewer, shown from the side in a meditative pose. Her skin is a gradient of pink, purple, teal, blue, and black and her outlines are white. To her left is green and yellow text reading “fat & Free”
A plus size woman wearing a blue ponytail with bangs is illustrated in purple leggings, a sports bra, and blue tennis shoes. She’s standing with her legs apart and her arms stretched behind her, a joyful pose. There is a purple heart in the center of the image and handwritten text reading “my fat body…
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Hi friend, There’s a new supporter reward in the Blanket Fort this week – Resources & Recs: Healthcare Providers! This is an ongoing reference of existing weight-neutral and Health at Every Size®-aligned healthcare provider directories, as well as specific recommendations for doctors and other healthcare pros. It’s very US-heavy right now, but I’d love to see…
One of the more joyful parts of my job is getting to be the photographer who gets it — who doesn’t push, who doesn’t rush, who has the accommodations and modifications ready so that capturing branding photos is a good experience for disabled and ill clients, not just something to be endured.
Merfolk Mini Sessions Burien, WA 🐚 September 1, 2024 Bring your fins. Bring your friends. Use a clear and attention-grabbing short paragraph to engage your audience and draw them into reading the rest of your content. Add a Short Title Here Use this space to add a short description. It gives enough info to earn…
Hi friend, A quick note on the BLP website: The work that I thought would take me a week has dragged on, and on, and on. Insert someone who was supposed to be fixing the WordPress theme erasing chunks of the site entirely, days of the site being down altogether, and endless screaming. I hope…
Here are seven quick resources to start learning about body kindness and putting it into practice.
Here’s what’s coming up in the Body Liberation Blanket Fort, a body-positive and diet-talk-free community for people of all sizes.
My first podcast guest appearance was on Christy Harrison’s podcast Food Psych, back in 2018. And I was terrified.
I also love, love, love working with neurodivergent folks. Y’all are my people. (Neurodivergence is an umbrella term that includes autism, ADHD, dyslexia and more, and depending on who you ask also includes mentally ill and mad folks.) At Kyra’s session, we cheerfully got distracted together by a hawk flying by and a rainbow, and laughed ourselves silly while getting Kyra covered in grass rolling down a hill.
Hi friend, I know we’re slightly out of Mermay now, but mythical creatures are forever, so I want to talk some more about fat merfolk. Through the kind service of Mermaid Chè Monique and the Society of Fat Mermaids, I was able to add the voices of lots of fat merfolk to An Ocean of Fat Merfolk. I also…
In July 2017 the South African Equality Court dismissed charges of Hate Speech against Goldendean’s exhibition of a poster using the words “Fuck White People” in the Iziko National Gallery.The Chief Magistrate found that the work’s context, as art, brought attention to structural racism and white supremacy, and drew South Africans to a “critical moment…
Victoria Young is dating in her thirties and increasingly uncomfortable with the experiences available to her despite what the movies of her youth had promised. This is the life of a fat woman navigating the world of sex and dating as a feminist inescapably living in a patriarchy. If her debut collection Love Poems For…
» Fat-Shaming Is the Norm in Our Kids’ Favorite Shows & It’s Making Them Hate Their Bodies After the kids went to bed, I put the episode back on and was horrified by what I saw. In addition to negative fat and diet talk, the episode features a fantasy sequence in which a circus performer invites people…
I’ll be giving an art tour at the Seattle Erotic Art Festival this Friday, April 26 at 8:30 pm! Come hang out with me for an hour for: Aspirational Erotic: Body Size, Shame and Aesthetics Join photographer and body liberation activist Lindley Ashline to explore the origins and history of body image and weight stigma,…
» Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach When it was first published, Intuitive Eating was revolutionary in its anti-dieting approach. The authors, both prominent health professionals in the field of nutrition and eating disorders, urge readers to embrace the goal of developing body positivity and reconnecting with one’s internal wisdom about eating―to unlearn everything they were taught…
» For Plus-Size Creators, Tiktok Presents a New Wave of Challenges TikTok also kept a separate list of “special users” who were considered to be “particularly vulnerable.” Many of the creators on this list, Netzpolitik discovered, made videos with the hashtags #fatwoman or #disabled, or had rainbow flags and other LGBTQ+ markers in their profile….
Hi friend, Today I’m thinking about the expression “take a load off.” It’s generally used to mean taking the metaphorical weight, the load, of daily burdens and cares off your shoulders and relax. Not all burdens can be set aside like that, though. The cognitive load of existing as a fat person is one of…
Hi friend, I was featured in Authority Magazine recently! It was pretty cool to get to talk at length about something vital to fat and other marginalized folks – community building. In a world where larger-bodied people are openly discriminated against, paid less, promoted less often, stereotyped, and shamed, activism and community building have also become an important…
This is news I am so freaking excited to share — the launch of the project I’ve been working on behind the scenes for the last six months. It’s called SEEN., and there are limited spots, so I want to make sure you have time to grab one before this goes out to my big…
Hi friend, SEEN. is now open to the public! Please share it with anyone who you think might find it useful. Now, to this week’s letter: I’ve got a podcast for you this week! I had a blast appearing on Abbey Roberts’ podcast Hangry Thoughts. We discuss how my photography and work challenge societal norms, conventional…
Hi friend, I now have a ko-fi page! This is where anyone who’d like to make a one-time payment in support of my work, without committing to a monthly patreon donation, can do so. Please feel free to share it. View my ko-fi page » Also: It’s been 140 days of genocide in Palestine. Fatties for Palestine is making…
Hi friend, I have to admit it: I’m tired. Not mentally or metaphorically, as I often moan about it in my grappling with anti-fatness and prejudice, but physically. My spouse has been having a health issue that’s not my story to share, and in trying to ease it, we’ve put our bed down flat for the…
Hi friend, I spent last week on partial strike in support of a ceasefire in Palestine, and in mourning for the 20,000+ Gazans dead and thousands more starving to death. I saw news of the strike just after I’d sent out last week’s newsletter, so I didn’t have a chance to mention it there, but I knew…
Hi friend, If we’re lucky, aging will happen to every one of us, but we talk about it so little, and we all deserve to understand aging and be treated better in our aging bodies. Some of it is that social media is a young person’s game. It burns out people, especially activists, as we…
If we’re lucky, aging will happen to every one of us, but we talk about it so little, and we all deserve to understand aging and be treated better in our aging bodies. Some of it is that social media is a young person’s game. It burns out people, especially activists, as we age. And…
An African-American woman who wears plus size clothing sits in front of a white backdrop. In this close-up shot, only her chest, shoulders, arms, hands, neck and face are shown. She’s wearing a casual black top, silver necklace with a heart pendant, and bright pink lipstick. Her short, curly hair is dyed a vivid pink-purple…
Hi friend, As I write this, it’s 19° F, unusually cold for Seattle. The little brown birds are pecking at seeds out on the deck, and I need to bring the hummingbird feeder inside and thaw it. I always think about fat joy more in the winter, which is a season that’s – well, not…
Hi friend, One of the things that’s important to me for the year we’ve just begun is holding more events and workshops. I’ll be announcing the new Blanket Fort schedule next week, and right now I’m excited to announce my first workshop in over a year! On Saturday, January 20 at 4 pm Pacific time…
Has this ever been you? If you’ve ever hidden behind other people, bushes, convenient tables or the camera to keep someone from taking a picture of your belly, I get it. You’re not alone. For a very long time, I hated having photos taken. I’d avoid it, be conveniently out of the room, stand in…
Perspectives from QTBIPOC, fat, and disabled trainers, bodyworkers, and coaches on reimagining fitness for all bodies. For readers of Belly of the Beast, Care Work, and The Body is Not an Apology Fit is subjective. Who our society designates as fit–and who gets to be fit in our society–is predefined by the coaches, gyms, and systems at large that uphold and…
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My body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding against all odds. It is a body that others map their expectations on, but it has never let me down. In this insightful, funny, and whip-smart book, acclaimed writer Evette Dionne explores the minefields fat Black women are forced to navigate in the course of…
Hi friend, First, a couple of announcements: I’m excited to support the SeekHer Foundation as a mentor for their new program ‘Our Bodies Belong’. Check out their site to learn more and apply for their Winter 2024 Cohort. Also, I’ll be more or less unavailable from now through mid-January as I do a little hibernation, spend time…
I’ve been thinking so much about the cost of things lately, and how they interact with cost of living and marginalization and capitalism and labor and psychology. Last week, I had the privilege of a behind-the-scenes chat with the organizer of Seattle Fat Con (affiliate link), an event happening in January here in town. I’d…
