What if the #fat and #chubby tags weren’t full of people making fun of others or shaming themselves for ‘feeling’ fat or chubby
what if
dreams
For a Fat Positive DC
BFD is a new, open collective to
create a space safe in DC for fatties and fat-positive people. Email: bfdcollective@googlegroups.com
My zine is done and listed on etsy!
I want to spend all of my money on other people’s crafty things. D:
(via femmesandfamily)
(via bigbootiedtattooedcuties)
Fat women are expected to dress in ways that are ostensibly minimizing but that, in reality, are really about us occupying less visual real estate. No bold colors, no stripes, nothing that would ever make us look bigger. It’s not that some of those rules are genuinely about looking slimmer – it’s that we draw less attention to ourselves when we comply with fashion rules. We occupy less space, metaphorically if not physically. We minimize ourselves for the comfort of other people.
(via bigbootiedtattooedcuties)
sometimes doodles get away from me and become cheeky self-esteem posters
Perfect
(via femmesandfamily)
Of course, this is one of the profound ways in which oppression works—to mire us in body hatred. Homophobia is all about defining queer bodies as wrong, perverse, immoral. Transphobia, about defining trans bodies as unnatural, monstrous, or the product of delusion. Ableism, about defining disabled bodies as broken and tragic. Class warfare, about defining the bodies of workers as expendable. Racism, about defining the bodies of people of color as primitive, exotic, or worthless. Sexism, about defining female bodies as pliable objects. These messages sink beneath our skin.
Eli Clare, “Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies” (via croatoan)
(via bism-ishazz)
“WE are angry at mistreatment by commercial and sexist interests. These have exploited our bodies as objects of ridicule, thereby creating an immensely profitable market selling the false promise of avoidance of, or relief from, that ridicule.”
- exerpt from the Fat Liberation Manifesto by Judy Freespirit and Aldebaran, 1973.
(via radicalsocialworker)
