Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong - The Huffington Post. A NOTE ABOUT OUR PHOTOGRAPHSSo many images you see in articles about obesity strip fat people of their strength and personality.
According to a recent study, only 11 percent of large people depicted in news reports were wearing professional clothing. Nearly 60 percent were headless torsos. So, we asked our interview subjects to take full creative control of the photos in this piece. This is how they want to present themselves to the world. Body-Positive Activists Shut Down Instagram Haters on Vacation. When you're busy fighting body shaming on the Internet all day, having some like-minded allies can be super helpful.
For three body positive activists, the connection they forged online simply wasn't enough — they decided to take their friendship to the next level and meet up IRL in Miami and spend some quality time together under the sun. Instagram, enough with the fat shaming! - HeadSpaceHeadSpace. This morning I woke up to the news that a picture (the one you see above), which is part of a series of nude and semi-nude photographs that Montreal photographer Julie Artacho had published on the This is Better than Porn Tumblr account had been promptly censored and removed by Instagram.
Instagram had already gotten on my nerves when it decided to (twice) remove Rupi Kaur’s blood-stained period picture from its account because the sight of ONE DROP OF BLOOD might somehow be too much to handle for people living in a world where videos of ISIS decapitations are shared on social media and where game hunters get to post their smiling smug faces next to the carcases of dead animals they just killed for shits and giggles. After all, we need to draw the line somewhere, right? Fat shaming and the thin epidemic: Jill Andrew at TEDxYorkU 2014. Witch Bitch (Harpooning) Grossophobie, same shit, different day. Je me réveille, en retard.
Je monte sur mon scooter. A chaque fois, une pensée pour cette image utilisée contre moi quand j’ai eu le malheur de demander à mes proches un coup de pouce financier pour l’acheter, cette femme en obésité monstrueuse sur un scooter médical, je n’arrive pas à l’oublier, est ce donc cette image que je renvoie aux autres ? Au premier feu, un mec en moto me parle, je dois soulever mon casque pour l’entendre m’insulter « tu feras mieux de prendre tes pieds », il se marre avant de démarrer. J’arrive au boulot, passage à la cafétéria, tous les jours le même allongé, « tu devrais passer à l’aspartame, c’est quand même meilleur pour ce que tu as’, merci collègue, j’avais failli oublier mon obésité, merci pour tes conseils, je garde mon demi sucre, merci.
Killer Kurves » Canadian Plus Size Fashion – Plus Size Clothing Canada, The Canadian Plus Size Authority » Canadian Plus Size Fashion – Plus Size Clothing Canada. Today I want to take a moment to talk about something that drives me crazy, which is fashion rules!
Especially when they are rules that apply to size. Pictures of people who mock me. I was traveling with students in Barcelona in the summer of 2011, walking through La Rambla, when I noticed two guys making fun of me.
I could see them in the reflection of a mirrored building, making gestures with their hands to suggest how much bigger I was than the thin girl standing next to me, her small waist accentuated by her crop top and cut-off shorts. They painted her figure in the air like an hourglass. Then they painted my shape like the convex curves of a ball. The guys were saying something, too, but there was only one word I could make out: Gorda. Fat woman. Fat-Shaming All Around Us. Share The sign outside a cafe in West Village that sparked debate over fat-shaming.
(Courtesy of Chloe Angyal.) Earlier this week I blogged here about the thinspiration community—which encourages anorexic and bulimic behaviors and insists that eating disorders are not mental illnesses but admirable “lifestyle choices”—and its use of Twitter to share tips on how to be “better” at your eating disorder. In that post I posited that, disturbing though it is, the thinspiration community is simply an exaggeration of the culture in which it exists. What’s Wrong With Fat-Shaming? Originally published on XOJane and cross-posted here with their permission.
In September 2011, a Georgia organization called Strong4Life launched a multimedia ad campaign aimed at drawing attention to childhood obesity. Setting aside for a moment whether childhood obesity is legitimately a crisis worthy of dramatic action, their approach was controversial. Strong4Life decided to use actual fat children as cautionary tales in their campaign, which consisted of billboards and print media — examples of which are shown above — and truly soul-wrenching YouTube videos. The campaign ran quietly for a few months before drawing some nationwide attention earlier this month. Fat Hate Is Not The Same As Homophobia. In response to a recent Salon article that compared anti-obesity to homophobia, Jenn Leyva argues that her fatness and her sexuality can not be separated so easily.
Last week, Paul Campos wrote an article for Salon claiming “anti-obesity” is the new homophobia.