Should healthcare providers be excused for weight stigma in medicine?
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Should healthcare providers be excused for weight stigma in medicine?

ByLindley Ashline

“They don’t know any better.” When I talk about weight stigma/weight bias and fatphobia in healthcare, that’s often the excuse that people make to me on behalf of healthcare providers. “That’s how they were taught.” In 2022, that excuse just isn’t good enough any more. Not only do we have a half-century of evidence that…

12 Stock Photos of People Practicing Intuitive Eating & Food Neutrality

12 Stock Photos of People Practicing Intuitive Eating & Food Neutrality

ByLindley Ashline

As a photographer who produces stock images and is involved in the world of Health at Every Size® and intuitive eating, I do a lot of thinking about people, food, and the relationships between the two. Plenty of my work rebels against diet culture by pairing women in large bodies with “sinful” foods like cupcakes…

New: Plus-Size Hiker Collection at Body Liberation Stock

New: Plus-Size Hiker Collection at Body Liberation Stock

ByLindley Ashline

In these 14 new images, a fat white woman (me!) hikes up a gravel path in the mountains on a sunny autumn afternoon. They were taken in Mount Baker National Forest. Traditional stock photography sites offer images that almost always feature young, thin, white, able-bodied people. Does that really reflect the dizzyingly diverse array of…

A photo of silhouetted people against an orange and blue sunset on a hillside. A fat person with one arm thrust into the air is in the center. Text overlaid on top reads, Health at Every Size® Resource Library from Body Liberation Photos.
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Now available to Patreon supporters: Health at Every Size® Library

ByLindley Ashline

New benefit for supporters! The Body Liberation Photos Health at Every Size® library contains 2,000+ articles, pieces of research and resources for fat activists, HAES healthcare providers and fat allies. This library is just one of the many benefits of supporting Body Liberation Photos, from stock photo credits to exclusive resources to free workbooks.  Supporters also…

{Listen} What Happened in the HAES® Spaces—a conversation with Lindley Ashline and Shelby Gordon
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{Listen} What Happened in the HAES® Spaces—a conversation with Lindley Ashline and Shelby Gordon

ByLindley Ashline

I recently went on the RD Real Talk podcast with Heather Caplan and Shelby Gordon to talk about what’s been going on in Health at Every Size® this year, and where we go from here. Here’s the episode description from Heather: A LOT has happened in the Health at Every Size® and weight-inclusive communities since Marquisele…

16 ways to carry Health at Every Size forward
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16 ways to carry Health at Every Size forward

ByLindley Ashline

One of the transgressions of which Mikey Mercedes, ASDAH leadership and I have been accused is of “capitalizing” on the events of the last month for publicity and profit.  (Those events, in case you’re coming to this late, can be found here.) Not only should Mikey and I, as professionals and experts, have the opportunities…

A close-up of a fat woman's side and belly rolls in black and white, with a bit of a bra and arm showing.
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Health at Every Size®, Stories and Silence

ByLindley Ashline

It’s been an interesting week or so since Mikey Mercedes and I went public. In the time since, there’s been a lot of excellent discussion in marginalized communities.  In the Health at Every Size®-aligned healthcare provider groups to which I have access or connections, there’s been a silence that echoes almost as loudly as the…

{Podcast Month} Real Health Radio with Lu Uhrich
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{Podcast Month} Real Health Radio with Lu Uhrich

ByLindley Ashline

✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ “I guess that’s what’s hard for me to understand. What harm does it to do to a concern troll to start trolling the systems that are doing this? Troll the airline industry….

{Podcast Month} Sarah Thunell on Kids, Body Image and Health at Every Size
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{Podcast Month} Sarah Thunell on Kids, Body Image and Health at Every Size

ByLindley Ashline

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? What does #HAES have to do with it? 🚸 What should parents look for in a nanny who will help their kids grow up with a positive body image? 🚸 What Sarah…

Health at Every Size (HAES) Consulting & Content Marketing

Health at Every Size (HAES) Consulting & Content Marketing

ByLindley Ashline

People who are incorporating Health at Every Size® into their businesses are using a powerful framework to help mitigate weight stigma and fat oppression. Using or advertising HAES as part of your work, though, requires a commitment to rooting out internalized weight bias and stigma in both your own beliefs and practices, and in the…

Lindley & Body Liberation Photos
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Lindley & Body Liberation Photos

ByLindley Ashline

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 they’d laugh at the very thought. From the safety of my corporate job, I watched people in thin bodies make other thin people’s dream images come true. In 2014, my…