The Fight For Inclusion In The Body Positivity Movement. Corbis There appears to be a movement of sorts happening within the mainstream culture to declare that there is beauty at any size. Lane Bryant has an ad about beauty at any size. So does Curvy Kate Lingerie in the UK, and the Dove beauty brand. Recently, MiLK Management made history by signing size 22 model Tess Munster (aka, Tess Holliday). Yet in spite of what appears to be a changing tide in how the mainstream defines and markets beauty, one thing remains the same: Racially, that standard continues to be pretty homogenous and exclusionary to women of color. Not only are most of the faces featured in the ads for this recent plus-size renaissance white women, but when there are women of color featured in these body positive campaigns, they are usually featured in a sea of white bodies, this even as Black women remain the face of obesity in America.
“I just think that sometimes the media will pick up and embrace a white person over a person of color, each and every time. Why Isn't Gabourey Sidibe The Face Body Positivity? According to Yahoo News, comedic actress Melissa McCarthy had to set a critic straight after he made some unflattering comments about her once in a movie review. The revelation came during an appearance on “The Ellen Show,” where in the midst of the interview, McCarthy began to talk about an unnamed film critic who wrote in his review of her 2014 film Tammy that she was a good actress, but only when she looks attractive.
Furthermore, this scoundrel of a human being called her “heinous.” And as reported by Yahoo News: “When McCarthy, learned in the midst of their conversation, that the critic had a daughter, she told him, ‘When I said, If she comes home and someone says you can’t have a job because you’re unattractive,’ are you gonna say, ‘That’s right?’” And he took that in his heart and he was like, ‘No, I would never want that to happen. I would never in a million years want that to happen.’
Basically: Ultimate Fat Phobic Guide | Oakland | Wear Your Voice. The following definitions were originally sourced from a final project co-created and presented with my cohort Psalm Lewis (whom you may know better as vegan chef extraordinaire Collard Gal), at the California Institute of Integral Studies for our Trauma course. The goal of this final paper and project is to explore the connection between Fat Phobia and Complex Trauma through the lens of current societal norms.
We found it extremely important not only to start making way for these explorations within the Psychological community, but to validate them concretely through the writing of academic literature, and through the creation of operational definitions for each of the terms utilized. This will allow a baseline of understanding in general, as well as being specifically applied to Psalm and my academic work together in the future – research and literature and workshops, oh my!
Image credit Flickr user Adam S via Creative Commons Intertwining bell hooks Teachings Further Defined: Comments. 5 Reasons Why We Need to Stop Thinking of Skinny-Shaming as 'Reverse Discrimination' Author’s Note: This piece is not in defense of skinny-shaming. Body-shaming in all forms is inexcusable. Rather, this piece aims to point out the ways in which fat-shaming entails an extra layer of oppression – fatphobia – that skinny-shaming lacks. I have a very complicated relationship with the concept of skinny-shaming. I’m a body image activist who attempts to work in solidarity with the fat acceptance movement, an eating disorder survivor who still harbors body and food issues, and a person of average size who talks openly about thin privilege. Of course I have a complicated relationship with skinny-shaming. But something that I see coming up a lot is the idea that skinny-shaming (making rude or snide remarks about thin bodies) is “reverse discrimination.”
Some say that if we want to curb body-hate, we can’t participate in body-hate. That, I’m into. But then there are the people who say that “skinny-shaming is the same as fat-shaming” – which simply isn’t true. 1. It isn’t. 2. Ouch. 3. 4. » Film Friday: Of Chickens and Eggs The Fat Personal Trainer. Perhaps the biggest lie that the medical establishment continues to tell fat folks is that our body size is solely (or at least primarily) our own fault; and further, that we could all permanently change our body size to a “healthy” one, if only we would make better lifestyle choices. The second big lie is that even if we’re fat and healthy today, we will definitely be dropping dead as a direct result of our fat someday soon, just you wait! It’s a familiar story for many of us, being judged as inherently diseased based only on a cursory glance, and being prescribed the old “treatment” of “eat less, move more” by doctors regardless of the purpose of the visit.
All this in spite of ample research indicating that not only is weight loss an incredibly ineffective “treatment,” it actually does more harm than good; and that thinner is not necessarily healthier. So I clicked, and initially was taken in. This is the part where I get angry. We’ve heard this song before though, haven’t we? Dr. Dr. Just For Fun: The Secret to a Perfect Body… How Obesity Became a Disease — The Atlantic. Health And, as a consequence, how weight loss became an industry Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe Now > Weight loss is a big business, and, since it’s rarely successful in the long term, it comes with a built-in supply of repeat customers.
And doctors have been involved in the business one way or another for a long time. Some 2,000 years ago, the Greek physician and philosopher Galen diagnosed “bad humors” as the cause of obesity, and prescribed massage, baths, and “slimming foods” like greens, garlic, and wild game for his overweight patients. The national obsession with weight got a big boost in 1942, when a life-insurance company created a set of tables that became the most widely referenced standard for weight in North America. And compare they did, using increasingly clinical-sounding terms like adipose, overweight, and obese. For one thing, the committee said, obesity doesn’t fit the definition of a medical disease. Weighting to Be Seen: Being Fat, Black, and Invisible in Body Positivity. Originally published on The Body Is Not an Apology and cross-posted here with their permission. My best friend, Denise Jolly, stood on a subway train and disrobed, revealing all 311 pounds of her formerly hidden body in a black bra and panties.
This was the culmination of a 30-day journey, in which she took photos of herself in various states of partial nudity at home and in her community. She called it the Be Beautiful project. Her nakedness in the photos was no more than what we might see on a Victoria’s Secret commercial or beer ad, and yet it was revolutionary. In a society filled with weight stigma, that tells us that anyone with a body like hers is not worthy of love let alone visibility, her work was a reminder to herself and others that “[t]he active practice of loving myself exactly as I am, is radical self-love.”
The day after the blog went live, the story went viral. Nine White women’s faces scrolled across my computer screen with the final woman on the slideshow being Asian. Who is the Body Positivity Movement Leaving Behind? Over the past few weeks, Ashley Graham and Tess Holliday have been featured in many headlines. Ashley Graham is the first plus-sized model to be featured in an ad in Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Edition.
Tess Holliday, who is known for her viral #effyourbeautystandards campaign, is the first plus-sized model of her size to be signed to a major modeling agency. While both Ashley and Tess both deserve all of the recognition they are receiving, why is it that, in 2015, the mainstream media recognizes only two plus-sized models? And what does it mean to have apparently able-bodied, cisgender, white women as the face of plus-sized modeling and body positivity? As body positivity gains momentum as a movement, many folks are beginning to speak out about the ways in which this movement is further marginalizing the same communities that larger societal beauty standards marginalize.
If you Google body positive, most of the images show white folks — even the cartoons. We can’t leave folks behind. ASDAH: HAES® Curriculum. The Health At Every Size ® Curriculum, specifically developed to provide a peer reviewed, weight neutral approach towards health, fills a void in health curricula at colleges, universities, and professional training programs. The curriculum contains: ASDAH is proud to be one of three organizations that partnered to support the development of these materials. Our partners were NAAFA and the Weight Realities and Higher Education Divisions of the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB).
The HAES curriculum project was led by ASDAH member Dawn Clifford, PhD, RD, Associate Professor & Didactic Programs in Dietetics Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, California State University in Chico, California and her student intern Crystal Vasquez. Diets_do_not_work_the_thin_evidence_that_losing_weight_makes_you_healthier.single. Illustration by Robert Neubecker If you’re one of the 45 million Americans who plan to go on a diet this year, I’ve got one word of advice for you: Don’t. You’ll likely lose weight in the short term, but your chance of keeping if off for five years or more is about the same as your chance of surviving metastatic lung cancer: 5 percent. And when you do gain back the weight, everyone will blame you. Including you. This isn’t breaking news; doctors know the holy trinity of obesity treatments—diet, exercise, and medication—don’t work. They know yo-yo dieting is linked to heart disease, insulin resistance, higher blood pressure, inflammation, and, ironically, long-term weight gain.
Still, they push the same ineffective treatments, insisting they’ll make you not just thinner but healthier. In reality, 97 percent of dieters regain everything they lost and then some within three years. Weight inched its way into the American consciousness around the turn of the 20th century. Weight Loss Doesn't Always Lead to Happiness — The Atlantic. Research has shown that dropping pounds doesn't mean higher well-being. To lose weight is to become happier. At least, this is the narrative voiced by countless health gurus, ubiquitous advertisements, and, sometimes, overly blunt friends and relatives.
Americans buy in to the weight-loss game with billions of dollars a year—money funneled into diet programs, gym subscriptions, and unscrupulously marketed miracle pills. On network TV, the long-enduring reality show The Biggest Loser, in which overweight men and women compete to lose the highest percentage of their total weight, is now on its 16th season. The media tends to rally around these success stories, not only those who manage to lose weight, but also those who keep their pounds off. The presumption is that congratulations are due when people slim down—their weight loss has surely made them happier, right? It appears that over the years, though, these obesity-treatment programs adopted a more balanced approach to weight loss. Council on Size and Weight Discrimination.
Leonard Nimoy’s photographs of fat, naked women changed my life. I didn’t realise it until after he died – for whatever reason, I’d just never done the mental arithmetic – but Leonard Nimoy is responsible for the single most transformative moment of my life. In a very tangible way, Leonard Nimoy saved me. Of course, I have all the standard emotional attachments to the man as an actor and cultural icon: I grew up on Star Trek reruns and the ensuing films (when you’re done here, please sign my Change.org petition to get my fiance to wear Spock’s Voyage Home wizard bathrobe at our wedding); I used to watch The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins about 7,000 times every weekend, before I had to quit smoking pot because I convinced myself that I could “walk backwards through time”; and, in all seriousness, as a human being who believes in things – in love and humanity and the thrill of consciousness – it’s impossible not to be awestruck at the existence of such a principled, kind, talented, ravenously curious polymath.
I clicked back. I couldn’t stop looking. Word Power | Big Fit Deal® Last week, I asked you to weigh in (see what I did there?) On what word you would prefer me to use to describe myself instead of fat. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a very popular post, and only about 20 people voted. Still, I think it’s a good idea to talk about the results, and to do a quick run-down on why I don’t like any of the choices better as a way of describing my body. In the poll, the most popular choice was Other (I’ll tell you in the comments), but only two people commented. One picked fat, and the other encouraged me to use whatever word I want. A note about that: I should have explained that I did not host that poll because I am looking to replace the word fat in my body-describing vocabulary. To that end, the second most popular choice was curvy, followed by full-figured, fluffy, heavy, large, plus-size, and obese. Here’s why I don’t like any of those choices better: Curvy, to me, implies having a big bosom and a big butt.
Like this: Like Loading... 7 Photoshop-Free Swimsuit Pics That Prove All Bodies Are Beautiful. Photos of airbrushed women abound, but what about the guys? From print ads to tabloids, the media depicts the “ideal” man as having bulging muscles, a hairy chest, and a thick mane—all with the help of Photoshop magic. To be sure, women have been disproportionately objectified in the media (especially in fashion). But the relatively little research available has found that boys and men also suffer from insecurities based on misrepresentations and cultural expectations.
Recently, awfully Photoshopped images of men have been cropping up. Here are eight examples. WHY PEOPLE HATE TESS MUNSTER (AND OTHER HAPPY FAT PEOPLE) Unless you're someone who refuses to use social media, I'm sure you're aware that plus-size model Tess Munster/Holliday has rocked people's worlds by becoming the first model 'of her size' signed to an agency. Her size being: 5'5" and a size 22, which is a far cry from the industry's standard of having traditionally hourglass-y figures that are a size 10. Plus models never wear above a 16/18, and are usually 5'8" or taller. Guys... Tess is super short and super fat and breaking all the motherfucking rules like the superhero she is.But changing the status quo is anything but easy. If I ever want to mourn humanity, all I have to do is scroll through Tess's Instagram comments. For years, this vitriol has left me puzzled and asking: WHY is this happening?
Because: that bitch just broke the rules. "Fat” is just the current catchall word for all the things that we as a culture are afraid of: women’s rights, people refusing to acquiesce to cultural pressures of conformity, fear of mortality. Sex At Every Size! The Visible Knapsack. The Body Is Not An Apology – Radical Self-Love for Everybody and Every Body. How People See You When You're Big and Black... - Plus Size Princess. DeLuca, Katherine. Chapter 3--Blurring Boundaries. The 10 Kinds of Trolls You Will Encounter When Talking About Mike Brown | Olivia Cole. 9 Facts That Shatter Bullsh*t Stereotypes About Fat People. Obesity Pragmatism. Reinventing Plus-Size Style. 'Fat shaming' doesn't motivate obese people to lose weight: Study.
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