Health at Every Size Stock Photo: Fat Body Close-up
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.
The contours of a fat woman’s body are shown in this close-up image, including stretch marks, skin texture, rolls and cellulite.
I had a nightmare last night that I needed an abortion and couldn’t find the clinic. Lots of people are living that nightmare today. I made a post of all the resources I’ve been sharing on Twitter and in my newsletter. Many of them are for everyone, though some are specifically for plus-size and fat…
It’s my birthday month! In celebration, I’m giving away a free hand-knotted bracelet by artist Mackensie Layne Sheldon with every order from the Body Love Shop’s In-House Collection placed in July. Images: Views of a bunch of colorful handmade friendship-style bracelets gathered on a wood and macrame shelf, and on a dark teal blanket.
I said I would never do a podcast, but it turns out that I needed just the right partner. Laura Burns and I had been having these really fantastic fat liberation discussions, and finally Laura noted how cool it would be to let other people be a fly on the wall for it. (She also…
“ This is Bad Fatty with Laura Burns and Lindley Ashline. We’re two rad fatties chatting about the world we live in and how to change it. In this episode, we’re talking about the difference between a good fatty and a bad fatty, body positivity versus body liberation, and Donut Lake and Liberation Lake. Listen…
Went out to Vashon for a client photo session today! I’d forgotten how lush and gorgeous Vashon is, and the state ferries are always fun to ride. Found a nice little cafe and bakery for lunch, too! No photo because I was driving, but just after I got off the ferry on the island, there…
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This Thursday, May 19, I’ll be at Third Place Books (masked) with Summer Michaud-Skog in Lake Forest Park, just north of Seattle, WA. I’m excited to be stepping in for this free event to ask Summer some questions about her brand-new book Fat Girls Hiking: An Inclusive Guide to Getting Outdoors at Any Size or…
I’m still over a month behind on all my work due to waves hand at the HAES events of 2022, and I’m still a high-risk person trying to survive a pandemic, so I have nothing intelligent to say about the Supreme Court trashing Roe v. Wade except: Abortion is a human right Abortion cannot be…
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If you live in a fat body, does your body reflect any of the shapes in this photograph? Any of these textures?
Being fat is having your very existence considered to be dangerous. Any sort of visibility whatsoever — from walking down the street to posting a selfie online — is considered dangerous because we might encourage others to look like us. (See: “glorifying o*”) Our bodies are considered, against all actual evidence, to be inherently diseased,…
For fat folks, the invisibility that comes with aging can be a blessing. If we’re invisible, at least no one is openly staring or sneering at us.
Fat folks deserve to be protagonists, in the media, in fiction and in our own lives.
The question “What about fat animals?” comes up pretty regularly in body liberation spaces.
An ongoing series about the privileges of thinness in a world filled with diet culture.
One of the things I consistently hear from folks in larger bodies is that they can make a certain amount of progress on their body acceptance journeys, but then get tripped up by infrastructure.
Here are 18 products tested and recommended by fat folks for showering, skin care, medical needs and more
When someone criticizes our favorite works — whether it’s a book, movie, workshop, song, blog or painting — it can feel really bad. And that’s putting it mildly.