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The 10th Circle of Hell is eating in your own home when your mom is on a weight loss kick.

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lastoneout

me @ my entire family

fatmasc

Sometimes ur fat bc u were born that way. Ur parents are fat, ur cousins are fat, u always have been fat.

And sometimes, you become fat. Something happened (puberty, change in diet, change in ability, anything) and someone who was once skinny is now fat. This doesnt make you a failure. It just means ur fat now. Its okay. You didnt do something wrong.

No matter how you are fat, its okay to be fat

chibeast

Your fat body is not a placeholder for a "better" you. It IS you. And you deserve love and respect NOW.

fat-transmasc-experience

I feel like a lot of fat activists use "oh most of us are born fat, we don't binge ridiculous amounts of food!!!" as a way to deflect fatphobia. As a fat person in recovery for binge eating disorder though, this shit really sucks to see from people who are supposed to be supportive of fat liberation. Supporting fat people includes supporting fat people whose eating habits are disordered.

Hard agree. There’s a lot of fat folks who love to put other fat people down. Occasionally they’re like…the transmeds of fat people, I think. Fatmeds?

The “born this way” narrative may be true for many of us! However, I really think it’s sometimes a shield that hides entrenched, internalized bigotry. Wanting to be fat or failing to remain skinny is labelled wrong, because why would someone choose this?

I suffered with binge eating disorder back in high school while also being fat, and the intense shame that came with that is something I never want to come close to ever again. I’m sorry anon. I’m rooting for you.

vylirium

staying fat ♥️

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ID: Reminders from a slightly angry dietician. If you feel out of control around a food, more permission is often a more effective strategy than increased restriction. Feeling satisfied after a meal is not overeating. Most people would benefit more from consistent meals than from a new protein powder. Carbohydrates are not reserved for “active” people. Blood sugar is influenced by many things like stress, sleep, hormones and overall intake, not just the carbohydrates you eat. Celebrities like Mike Tyson are not qualified to give nutrition advice. /End ID

ruseliini

And let's not lose this great tag:

starlightnecromancer

Sometimes I think about how there's a lot of gender expression in the queer community that is just completely and entirely cut off for fat queers.

Like if you're a fat gay man you're a bear and that's the only gender expression you're "allowed". I've never, ever, seen someone refer to an effeminate fat gay man as a femboy. It doesn't matter if he's dressing the exact same way as the twink (who's gender expression is explicitly about thinness), the twink is a femboy twink and the bear is just a girly bear.

I see it over in sapphic spaces too. Butch is a word that yes is open to women of all sizes but Femme really.... isn't? Femme presumes that you're thin. Sure you can be a fat femme, but your fatness will detract from how femme you are and if you do anything less than High Femme Princess Peach ass shit then you'll be shoved into the Butch Zone despite anyone with eyes knowing that you're not butch you're just a fat femme who didn't have the energy to do her full Instagram Cottage Core outfit today

Its been a known both in and out of the trans community that fatness may as well be its own gender experiance. If you're a cis woman, but you're also fat, your gender is now fat. Oh people will still she/her you, but you're gonna be unpersoned because you're not attractive enough to be a woman. If you're a cis man it'll be the same deal, just repeatedly dehumanized because fatness isn't attractive to mainstream society and if people's boners don't activate then you aren't a real man/woman.

In the nonbinary community its extremely painful because the only view of androgyny is "Skinny twink who could pass for either". If you're fat and also some flavor of nonbinary you get to settle for "Mistaken for a trans man/woman" if you're visibly queer.

thatstormygeek

I got really involved in Fat Activism when I was younger and did a lot of fat acceptance work and whatnot. And then I came out as nonbinary and lost the entire community.

It wasn't so much that they were actively pushing me out. But the entire group and all of the conversations were so "woman" coded that it was dysphoria-inducing. Because a lot of the fat acceptance was tied into feminism and not letting the patriarchy define you and, yes...but also not a woman, yano?

Going from having a weight-neutral community to none was a shock. And, just like the rest of the world, a heavy vein of fatphobia runs through the trans community. To be a trans woman is to be curvy (but only in the right places) and feminine. To be a trans man is to be bearded and heavily muscled. And to be nonbinary is to be the ethereal other, a mystical fae entity or some shit.

I've worked my way back to accepting my body. In fact, I'm a lot better off than I was before because my dysphoria has been largely relieved. And I kept the habit of never weighing myself (which is one I highly recommend to everyone - get rid of that fucking scale). But it was a lot of lonely work.

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I think fat representation is important no matter what. Fat people of all sizes are essential and should be welcomed in every space.

And as such, I wish there was more acceptance and positive portrayal of big fat, superfat, and infinifat people, both in the fat liberation community and in studies, books, shows, movies, etc. Yes, even the "gross," "weird," "ugly," and "unhealthy" ones.

We're common enough to be an epidemic, but not so common we can't see ourselves in superheroes, dancers, even background characters? Come on.

Thank you to all big fat, superfat, and infinifat people. You deserve the best and more.

(any fatphobic or healthist comments on this post get you an instant block)

sitronsangbody

It will never not baffle me how hard society tries to insist that fatness is an abnormality. The average western woman wears plus size clothing. One of the smallest garments on the scale is called a medium. Most people with anorexia are in the overweight bmi category, yet somehow that's known as "atypical anorexia". Fatness is often labeled the cause of a number of diseases, but there are literally no diseases exclusive to fat bodies. Looking at movies and television, you'd think the world was 98% thin people. It's not.

My point isn't that if it was pretty rare to be fat, fatphobia would be okay. Of course not.

My point is that we're surrounded by all these artificial indicators that fatness is unnatural and uncommon and it's just not true?? Humans are not always thin and we've never all been thin and we're not all meant to be thin. Fat humans are a normal type of human. Fatness is a feature, not a bug.

shamebats

Ngl the panic around HRT happening at the same time as the GLP-1 weight loss craze is some incredible worldbuilding.

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You have all these people just freaking out about the safety of sex hormones being used for the same purpose they have been for decades, meanwhile the same people who didn't even know what GLP-1 was until a few years ago are now eager to get on these medications and nobody cares about possible long-term effects or regret.

fatliberation

Reading List: 20 Fat Liberation Books Written by Black Authors

Read from Black authors this Black History Month and every month!

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Belly of The Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun L. Harrison

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

Fat Girls In Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own by Joy Arlene Renee Cox, PhD

Fattily Ever After: The Fat, Black Girls' Guide to Living Life Unapologetically by Stephanie Yeboah

Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies by Andrea Elizabeth Shaw

Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes From a Trap Feminist by Sesali Bowen

Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation by Dalia Kinsey, RD, LD

Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

Fat. Black. Femme. Revealing The Power of Visibly Queer Voices in Media and Learning to Love Yourself by Jonathan P. Higgins, Ed.D.

Reclaiming The Black Body: Nourishing the Home Within by Alishia McCullough, LCMHC

The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom by Chrissy King

#VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE: The Fat Girl's Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini by Nicole Byer

It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting The Story of Black Women’s Bodies by Jessica Wilson, MS, RD

Fat On, Fat Off: A Big Bitch Manifesto by Clarkisha Kent

Romance With Voluptuousness: Caribbean Women and Thick Bodies In The United States by Kamille Gentles-Peart

Yoke: My Yoga Self Acceptance by Jessamyn Stanley

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"I think there are these times when in our public discourse people who are not disabled, people who are not fat will talk about 'I'm just concerned! I just wanna solve this problem!' right? But then their actions sort of tell on them, because their actions are not geared toward solving a problem. Their actions are geared toward freaking people the fuck out.

If you are concerned about something, if you want to solve a problem, we all kind of know what that looks like, right? You approach it with a great deal of tenderness, you approach it with a great deal of curiosity, you test your own assumptions.

The ways that we talk about fat people's perceived health risks, the ways that we talk about diabetes and hypertension and heart disease are not those ways. 'These kids are all gonna get diabetes and it's gonna cost us $90 billion!' That's not solutions-oriented, that's not loving, it's not caring. Fat people deserve better than that. Diabetic people deserve better than that. It is such shitty lipservice that does the opposite of what it says it's doing."

- Aubrey Gordon, Maintenance Phase