You’ve heard it around. It makes it onto the various fat feeds from time-to-time. It even regularly pops up on Progressive blogs that are otherwise less judgmental of people of size. That is, some version of: “Poor people are fatter on average because they have less access to the ‘right’ foods and less ability/time to [...]
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The Conflation of Poor and Fat
Posted by bigliberty on July 21, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/07/21/the-conflation-of-poor-and-fat/
Living Our Fat Lives of Active Isolation
This isn’t going to be the most coherent post. I’m angry, sad, and exhausted. I’m tired of being marginalized, and see no end in sight. I’m afraid of the opportunities that will be denied to me; I’m afraid of both hyper-visibility and invisibility — all due to the number on the scale. My day job [...]
Posted by bigliberty on July 21, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/07/21/living-our-fat-lives-of-active-isolation/
No Empathy for the Fat in Healthcare
I saw this Scientific American article in my Google Reader this morning, and it struck me right away that this — THIS — is what’s missing from the average fat person’s healthcare, compared to the average thinner person. Empathy. Missing But Crucial to Successful Healthcare: Empathy Sure, empathy is in short supply in many doctor’s [...]
Posted by bigliberty on April 26, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/04/26/no-empathy-for-the-fat-in-healthcare/
The Fat Balancing Act
This is a post initiated by Raznay’s “Some Studies Show Fat Is Bad… Mmmkay?” on the never-ending oodles of studies trying in every which way to investigate just why “fat people are so disgusting.” It discusses the implications of the mindset which is generated by assumptions made in these studies — that is, how fat [...]
Posted by bigliberty on April 18, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/04/18/the-fat-balancing-act/
What They Actually Mean
Ever find yourself reading an article that brings up weight and size in even the most oblique way? Does the article allow comments? Then you’re in for a roller-coaster of fat-hate fun, courtesy of Armchair Fatphobics! The typical warm-hearted, concerned commentary runs: “Do you see all that jiggling flesh and rolls and bumps and spilling [...]
Posted by bigliberty on January 14, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/01/14/what-they-actually-mean/
Photoshop Used to Make People Skinnier
This should be required watching for all size activists. This is what we’re up against — it’s so, so easy to do this, it’s considered as standard in photo editing as removing blemishes or an unwanted seagull from the picture. Blargh. TRIGGER WARNING: It’s not as extremely fat-hating as I’ve heard, but it’s not fat-friendly. [...]
Posted by bigliberty on August 10, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/08/10/photoshop-used-to-make-people-skinnier/
Lane Bryant Debacle Response, and Fatshion Suggestions
So recently there has been quite a deserved hullabaloo over a very crude comment made by Lane Bryant’s twitterer about a shirt by the fat positive indie designer definatalie. Some original posts, before the apology was issued by Definatalie, The Rotund, Lesley at Fatshionista, Fat Heffalump, Red3 The apology by Lane Bryant’s VP of Marketing, [...]
Posted by bigliberty on July 30, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/07/30/lane-bryant-debacle-response-and-fatshion-suggestions/
Too Fat for Gloves?!
Just a short one. I recently got a shipment of clothes from Torrid, one of my favorite semi-goth-but-less-than-they-used-to-be-but-hey-I-don’t-have-any-better-options-since-I’m-larger-than-a-24US clothing stores. Included in this shipment were these gloves: Take a look at the text up at the top left of the packaging. Yes, you’re reading it correctly, your fattie eyes do no deceive you!—-there is indeed [...]
Posted by bigliberty on July 26, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/07/26/too-fat-for-gloves/
The Mia Freedman Debacle, or, Why Moral Panics Need Strawmen
Bri King of Fat Lot of Good, fellow Fat Acceptance blogger and general advocate, recently came under fire as she found herself daring to push back against a so-called body image activist allowing virulently anti-fat comments on a recent post about feederism. Bri has since been asked to comment for articles in several Australian news [...]
Posted by bigliberty on May 13, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/05/13/the-mia-freedman-debacle-or-why-moral-panics-need-strawmen/
Ashley Graham on Jay Leno
Ashley Graham, the model whose Lane Bryant ad was banned from ABC and Fox for — being too racy? Showing too much ‘flesh’? No one really knows for sure — was interview on Jay Leno the other evening. The news is that the commercial is back on (I guess being showed by NBC in the [...]
Posted by bigliberty on May 2, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/05/02/ashley-graham-on-jay-leno/
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