I'm going to post a couple links to sources for the next couple days to hopefully start a conversation in this space! These will fall in the area of Fat Studies and there's some norms you should be aware of:

  • "fat" is taken as a neutral descriptor, think of it as reclaiming the word.
  • "obese" arbitrarily medicalises fatness and Others fat people

I'm a cis man and I have (had) body image issues (in the past)

https://humanparts.medium.com/my-journey-toward-radical-body-positivity-3412796df8ff

I'm queer and fat

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yeefpijtl4s7orv/Flaunting%20Fat%20%E2%80%93%C2%A0Sex%20with%20the%20Lights%20On.pdf?dl=0

I'm queer and not fat

https://www.bitchmedia.org/post/fat-liberation-is-totally-queer

The others don't apply to me and/or I only have the energy/time to read one source

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/

:sankara-salute:

👉 Part 2 is up

👉 Part 3 is up

  • carlin [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I really love the body neutrality movement! I think body pos alienates a lot of people and ends up making them feel worse.

    For anyone who isn't familiar, here are a couple tumblr posts which explain a bit more:

    • https://strawberry-ethereal.tumblr.com/post/638662051025354752/in-my-recovery-from-my-eating-disorder-im-reject
    • https://panandproud123.tumblr.com/post/639270844206645248/hi-yes-lets-normalize-something-called-body
    • https://body-neutrality.tumblr.com/