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[fatliberation]

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Photo: Wally McNamee/Corbis, circa 2009

What is Fat Liberation? 🐋⛓️‍💥

Fat liberation is a social justice movement that works against anti-fat bias, oppression, and discrimination. Fat liberation is a radical alternative to body positivity – a movement based largely in appearance that is often appropriated by the mainstream – and affirms the value of all people, regardless of their weight or health. Fat liberation understands anti-fat bias and discrimination to have strong roots in anti-Black racism, colonialism, and classism, and that anti-fat bias and discrimination are routinely practiced without recrimination. Fat liberation seeks to identify and alleviate systemic anti-fat bias and individual prejudice, and to unlearn internalized fat bias and oppression. Fat liberation is a struggle tied to other intersectional struggles against oppression, and stands shoulder-to-shoulder with struggles against racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, ageism, ableism, and others. Fat liberation not only seeks to normalize fat bodies, but to celebrate them.

– fatliberation.org

Photo: Katie Loncke. Fat Rose, 2018

About Me 🪐

I'm a 24 year old blogger called @fatliberation (they/them), also known as @thaenad. I am a fat, queer, trans, and neurodivergent artist/activist. I am a fat liberationist and unapologetic feedist who openly speaks out about intra-communal stigma surrounding the marginalized identities that I hold. My experience battling deep-rooted childhood shame growing up as a sexual outsider has shaped my work in fat liberation and pleasure/autonomy advocacy from a distinct lens, and I am interested in empowering others to break free of ingrained anti-fat and sex-negative biases. Over the past five years, I have done years of extensive research in the field of Fat Studies. I have worked with four fat acceptance organizations since 2020 and currently serve as a board member of a fat activist non-profit in Chicago. In 2022, I helped design a course on de-stigmatizing body size for a CE program run by licensed clinical social workers and healthcare professionals, and in 2023, I organized and documented a scale-smashing protest to raise awareness of the harms of diet culture. In 2024, I drafted a design for a Fat Liberation Flag. Today, a large focus of my work integrates fat liberation and sex education. I have over a year of experience working a live hotline providing queer inclusive, comprehensive, and fat-positive sex education for teens and emerging adults. Offline, I spend much of my time building and strengthening in-person connections with my local fat kink community through the grassroots organization Abundance Chicago, which I founded solo in 2024. 🔗 My Links

My Writing 📝

(🚧 = in progress)

Anti-Obesity Drugs In Sociopolitical Context

FAT MYTHS MASTERPOST

FAQ: An overview of my writing integrating fat liberation and the feedism/fat kink communities

🚧 Origins of the Fat Liberation Movement in the 60s and 70s

Anti-Fatness is Systemic.

Diets Don't Work.

Guide to advocating for yourself at the doctor's office

Fat Genital Maintenance Guide + Accessible Sex

#Fat Sex Ed

Beginner fat liberation resources for eating disordered individuals

My Projects 💭

Fat Liberation Flag

🚧 The F Word: A Sex & Fat Positive Podcast

🚧 Fat-Positive Organizations Database + Interactive Map

Lived experiences with medical gaslighting: survey trends

SMASH YOUR SCALE! Live Protest

Fat LGBTQ+ Reading List

Fat Liberationist Films

Fat Bodies in Horror

“FAT DYKES RULE” at the New York City Dyke March, June 2000

Extra Resources 🔗

Fat Liberation Manifesto, 1973

Health at Every Size Principles

NAAFA's Campaign For Size Freedom

What's Wrong With 'The War on Obesity?'

Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift

Long‐term Effects of Dieting: Is Weight Loss Related to Health?

HAES Health Sheet Library

Printable Self Advocacy Cards for Healthcare

Fat Friendly Health Professionals List

Weight Neutral Providers Spreadsheet (USA)

ASDAH Healthcare Provider Listing

Non-Diet Providers for Eating Disorder Recovery

Fat-Positive and Anti-Diet Parenting Resources

Fat Travel Resources

Eating Disorder Support

The Fat Protestor

Photo: Marge Dean. Members of the Fat Underground, 1979

Books 📚

Science & Health:

Health at Every Size by *Lindo Bacon PhD

Body Respect by *Lindo Bacon PhD and Lucy Aphramor PhD, RD

Secrets from the Eating Lab by Traci Mann PhD

Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison MPH, RD

The F*ck-It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy by Caroline Dooner

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

Weight Bias in Health Education: Critical Perspectives for Pedagogy and Practice edited by Heather Brown, Nancy Ellis-Ordway

Fat Politics:

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

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

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice edited by May Friedman, Carla Rice, and Jen Rinaldi

Queering Fat Embodiment edited by Jackie Wykes, Samantha Murray, and Cat Pausé

Fat Activism by Dr. Charlotte Cooper

Fat Politics by J. Eric Oliver

The Fat Studies Reader by Esther Rothblum (Editor) and Sondra Solovay (Editor)

Fat Shame by Amy Erdman Farrell

Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives edited by August Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales, and Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini

Self Acceptance:

The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

Things No One will Tell Fat Girls by Jes Baker

Eating in the Light of the Moon by Anita Johnson PhD

Fat! So? Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size by Marilyn Wann

Happy Fat by Sofie Hagan

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

You have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar

*ASDAH's Statement on Lindo Bacon

NAAFA rally in Tobin Plaza calling on the Governor to include fat people in the New York State Civil Rights Bill, 1993

[wizardpotions]

You all need to understand that autonomy and especially bodily autonomy NEEDS to include being allowed to do things that are bad for you. True bodily autonomy includes being allowed to do things that are risky, drugs, cosmetic procedures and the like. Bodily autonomy needs to include being allowed to get high or smoke or get a BBL. The important part is education about the risks

[bellypovs2]

fuck duudeee, I feel so WHOLE engaging in feedism online. Like a whole-ass person, like i'm all of me at once instead of locking away my kink 😭

[cyberxbattalion]

[gnarlyafterdark]

And I wish this for everyone I love too💗🥰

[mousegirlheart]

You too, can become a BBW

[naidje]

[doodle-empress66]

“Thanks Hank you really taught me a lot about propane and propane accessories!”

"And I tell you hwat, young man. I don't think I know hwat a 'heart of the cards' is, but I know for certain you've got the heart of a Texan."

[tamale-papi]

This is exactly how kingdoms hearts is like

[insomniamamma]

The anon button is not for hate. The anon button is for horny and embarrassed about it.

[miscling]

rb if you want people to be horny and embarrassed on anon in your inbox

[aliceisaperson]

Accurate representation of what happens when I see a mutual in my notifications

[gentle-voluptuary]

Feedist RACK Worksheet v1.0

After many months of work, I'm proud to share the first version of this worksheet that I have been building to help make feedist play more safe and fun. It still has plenty of kinks (hah) to be ironed out, but overall, I am pretty proud of what it pulls together.

Feedist RACK Worksheet v1.0

As it says in the "Start Here" tab in the document, the point of this document is to help feedists bring risk-aware consensual kink (RACK) thinking and tools to how they practice our special and unique kink.

A spreadsheet like this may seem daunting at first, but the point of this is to get you and your partner(s) to use this as a jumping off point to sexy conversations that build the safety you need for feedism to be something you can both enjoy comfortably.

A few thoughts to contextualize this as you read through:

It's not exhaustive, by design. The point is not to name every single conceivable act in here, but to hit big enough categories that it allows you to start a conversation.

Generally I've tried to arrange things from low-risk to high-risk. It's imperfect, but the goal is to ensure newcomers to the kink see that there are lots of relatively safe ways to play before jumping into the deep end.

Despite its' brevity, I've tried to stay away from terms like "death feedism" and focus more on specific acts, both because those terms are very confronting and because they contain multitudes within themselves -- best to be specific, was my thinking.

This will necessarily need updating (hence the v1.0) but my hope is that this starts a conversation and that it can be updated by the community to be more encompassing and useful moving forward.

I welcome any and all constructive feedback!

A huge thanks to everyone who did my survey earlier on different ways you enjoy feedist acts. I plan to put together a sort of "play menu" for many of the ideas that were shared that felt too specific for this tool. Stay tuned!

[fatfurfoof]

huge dragon girl

thinking about pizza burritos (...or hot pockets)

[riribellygain]

[queerishly]

so true

[chonkiimemes]

Hope I haven't posted this on tumblr yet <3

[lilcowzia]

it literally HAS to be okay to choose to be fat in order for fat liberation to mean anything at all tbh

[lilcowzia]

i literally wrote this as simple and straightforward as possible and still most of the notifications i get on this post are "yeah, some people have the Fat Curse, cursed by fat, and theres nothing they can do abt it. its not your fault uwu" which is wild, bc why did you write all that nonsense when you clearly refused to read?

[lilcowzia]

i am slamming my head on the bars of my enclosure. i am screaming into the starless sky and shouting that some people do want to be fat actually, and are fat because they want to be, whether they are "natually" fat, or they eat intentionally to gain weight, or they simply enjoy eating and choose not to limit that joy. there is nothing wrong with choosing to be fat. and there is nothing wrong with being fat and happy. the fact that this is so inconceivable to so many ppl, even those who claim to be body positive/neutral/fat liberationist is literally just fatphobia and nothing else. how are you expecting to make the world a safer place for fat ppl when you can't even twist your lips to admit that fatness is desirable?

[hornyfeedistotter]

As someone who has intentionally gained 100 lbs for a great many reasons, hello! 💖. Fatness is desirable and people like me definitely exist.

[fatliberation]

anti-fatness is not just body shaming.

anti-fatness is discrimination. anti-fatness is having next to no legal protections for being discriminated against. anti-fatness is being denied housing, jobs, receiving less pay and promotions (legally) because of your size. anti-fatness is being denied access to clothing, seating, transportation, and other human rights because infrastructure has been designed to exclude you. anti-fatness is less likelihood of receiving a fair trial. anti-fatness is dehumanization. anti-fatness is being denied necessary surgeries, but not surgery that amputates the digestive tract with the intent to starve and shrink you (it doesn’t work either). anti-fatness is mutilation. anti-fatness is being subject to torture devices that bolt your mouth shut. anti-fatness is being told by close friends, family, and professionals that you are better off living with an eating disorder or other life-threatening illness. anti-fatness sells you starvation as a guaranteed opt-out of oppression, but doesn’t tell you that bodies will always regain weight to survive. anti-fatness blames and punishes you for failing at an achievement that is quite literally impossible. anti-fatness is a $90 billion dollar industry. anti-fatness is being denied gender-affirming care. anti-fatness is being barred from in vitro fertilization and reproductive healthcare. anti-fatness is being barred from adopting children. anti-fatness is being removed from your loving parents because they couldn’t make you thin. anti-fatness is intentionally starving your own baby so they won’t get fat. anti-fatness is disproportionately high suicide rates. anti-fatness is being killed at the hands of medical neglect and mistreatment. anti-fatness is the world preferring a dead body over a fat one.

[fatliberation]

reblogging this again because so many people still do not realize that fat liberation is deeply political. fat liberation is not body positivity. it is not about loving yourself or being non-judgemental. it is about THIS. 👆

[thatfatgoth]

Having a feedist friend is kinda like having a pet! Cause if you are nice to them, they might show you their soft underbelly!

[hornyfeedistotter]

What have you been up to Gwoob?

Amazing birthday gift from dear friends of mine. Artist credit to pastelgeneticist on bsky!