Lindley, a fat white woman with shoulder-length hair and glasses, stands in a garden wearing a dress and holding a pair of garden clippers. She's smiling mischievously.
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On the choice of “fatphobia”

ByLindley Ashline

Sometimes a stray comment or post on social media will spark something in my mind, and suddenly I have an opinion on it. This time it was a comment on a fat activist’s Instagram post informing the activist that they shouldn’t be using the term “fatphobia” because “people aren’t afraid of fat people, so it’s…

A fat white person's stomach rolls, tattooed arm and part of their bra-covered chest. They're at a body-positive portrait and boudoir session in Seattle.
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“Fat people who love themselves scare the shit out of people who don’t love themselves.”

ByLindley Ashline

“Fat people who love themselves scare the shit out of people who don’t love themselves. Even fat people trying to love themselves scare the shit out of people who can’t do the same. We force people to have to look at why they hate their bodies because we are “supposed” to hate ours and we…