It Got Fatter.
Dear Friends & Followers,
Six years ago this month, we started this tumblr almost as a joke. None of us ever anticipated that this project would explode in the way that it did, that we would be able to find and nurture a community of like-minded fat people of color both online and offline, or that so many people would be interested in hearing what we had to say about the intersection of fatness and racialization in the way that you all did.
Over the past six years, It Gets Fatter has been able to present workshops, trainings and keynotes to audiences all over North America. We have provided invaluable space to fat people of color in Toronto through the Peer Support Program at the University of Toronto. We have contributed to changing the discourse around fatness and body positivity in meaningful ways.
Over this past half decade +, the landscape of fat activism has also changed considerably. When IGF started, “body positivity” was a fairly unheard of concept outside of tumblr and small groups on other social media. Today, body positivity is promoted by some of the most powerful corporations around the globe, and it is clear that body positivity and fat activism are not the same, nor do they share the same goals.
Starting today, It Gets Fatter will no longer exist, except on this tumblr as an archive and in the hearts and minds of everyone our work has touched. Thank you for supporting this work, and for all the ways you have shown up for us and for each other in challenging fat stigma and body shaming.
Asam
on behalf of the IGF Collective














