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I need to get a wrap dress in my life.
[Image Description: A drawing of a fat woman of color with glasses and eyes closed, one hand in her hair and the other behind her. Her hair is long, brown, and curly. She is wearing a maroon wrap dress that is coming undone showing a good amount of cleavage. The background is tan with a gradient feathering away from the woman in the center. ]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln0jthdVTm1qfz9uho1_500.png)
I need to get a wrap dress in my life.
[Image Description: A drawing of a fat woman of color with glasses and eyes closed, one hand in her hair and the other behind her. Her hair is long, brown, and curly. She is wearing a maroon wrap dress that is coming undone showing a good amount of cleavage. The background is tan with a gradient feathering away from the woman in the center. ]
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If fat acceptance is a safe haven for racism in the name of solidarity and keeping the movement together, then I gotta tell you the truth: we’re doing it wrong. And not just a little wrong. If we are building a fat acceptance that supports racism then we are doing social justice fundamentally wrong on so many levels I cannot even.— Dear Fat White People: http://www.therotund.com/?p=1242 (via therotund)
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Uh IDK my thoughts on HAES and stuff
Like I think HAES does important shit because so much of fat discrimination is based in the idea that fat = unhealthy and it’s definitely really important to break down that myth. But at the same time I wish there was an equally powerful fat-posi force that focused on how health doesn’t define worth, how unhealthy people aren’t bad people and how no one owes their health to any-fucking-body. I just think both of these things are equally important and focusing so so so much on how fat people can be healthy too (which like I said is awesome and important) is basically playing into the ableism that’s the basis for much of the discrimination of fat folks in the first place.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
My fat liberation is reclaiming fat stereotypes and exaggerating my unhealthy habits for the joy of pissing off concern trolls. My health is as private as I choose to make it.
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!!!
Co-signing. I think the fat positivity movement and HAES both need to address a lot of the ableism and health shaming that are part of how they’re operating. Because yes, some fat people are not in perfect health, and whether or not their weight has anything to do with that, their imperfect health doesn’t change anything. It doesn’t make them less or mean that somehow they deserve shaming.
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Virgie says: I’m seeking personal essays of 1500-3000 words for a fat positive anthology to be released in 2012. I’m seeking essays that either (1) focus on a specific event/experience that was truly flabulous or (2) tell the story of how you became a fierce fatty. I encourage contributors to hone in on a particular theme—like romance, parenting, family, fatshion, dating, performance—to use as a lens through which to tell your story. Fierce, sassy, thoughtful, authentic, non-fiction, previously unpublished, autobiographical stories from fatties who identify as women are welcome. The vision for this anthology is one of fun, unapologetic fat celebration and love!
Signal boosting because this sounds like an awesome project. Can’t wait to see it when it comes out!