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extremely cool!!!

@fatliberation Look what I got today! It's a 150-page zine on fat liberation, made in Berlin (completely in English). They can be found on insta @/stepsof_fatliberation if anyone's interested

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my instagram is full of Inspiration

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I LOVE THIS SO MUCH 😭

New patch for my wheelchair based on the flag @fatliberation made!

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I have a research background in weight stigma and I currently work in mental health, often with LGBTQ+ clients.

I've met nonbinary people who struggle with disordered eating because they only ever see androgyny depicted as featureless thinness.

I've met trans women who struggle with disordered eating because they've internalized the idea that girls are meant to be thin, dainty, and delicate.

I've men trans men who struggle with disordered eating, because they feel women are allowed to be soft/curvy but men need to be muscular or thin and flat.

So many trans people are convinced that weight loss is the key to appearing as their desired gender, even when they want radically different gender presentations.

The societal idealization of thinness and fatphobia falsely invades and derails people's idea of what their "ideal body" should look like.

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Me: Exercise does not cause weight loss. This is a fact that has been demonstrated so robustly in research that even doctors, who hate and fear evidence, are grudgingly starting to admit this.

Someone reading that post: Cool, but have you considered that exercise leads to weight loss?

Me: I am going to eat you

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Every person need to be taught disability history

Not the “oh Einstein was probably autistic” or the sanitized Helen Keller story. but this history disabled people have made and has been made for us.

Teach them about Carrie Buck, who was sterilized against her will, sued in 1927, and lost because “Three generations of imbeciles [were] enough.”

Teach them about Judith Heumann and her associates, who in 1977, held the longest sit in a government building for the enactment of 504 protection passed three years earlier.

Teach them about all the Baby Does, newborns in 1980s who were born disabled and who doctors left to die without treatment, who’s deaths lead to the passing of The Baby Doe amendment to the child abuse law in 1984.

Teach them about the deaf students at Gallaudet University, a liberal arts school for the deaf, who in 1988, protested the appointment of yet another hearing president and successfully elected I. King Jordan as their first deaf president.

Teach them about Jim Sinclair, who at the 1993 international Autism Conference stood and said “don’t mourn for us. We are alive. We are real. And we’re here waiting for you.”

Teach about the disability activists who laid down in front of buses for accessible transit in 1978, crawled up the steps of congress in 1990 for the ADA, and fight against police brutality, poverty, restricted access to medical care, and abuse today.

Teach about us.

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can folks share their favorite diy clothing resources? 👕 cropping, hemming, sizing up, etc. I wanna get into modifying some of my stuff that doesn’t fit quite right but not sure where the best place to learn is!

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I'm gonna be real with you, i don't think weirdo kinksters should be considered acceptable collateral damage when banks/credit card companies enforce adult content bans on sites like patreon and ko-fi

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I know times are rough right now, but if you have a little money to share, a friend of mine is trying to leave an unsafe situation. Anything and everything helps.

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Leftists and socialists i love you but f*cking stop only drawing fat people as negative charicatures and nothing else

Fat cops, fat landlords, I just saw a sticker with the text ”f*ck oligarchs” and the person was an uglified fat man.

Truly, your revolution isn’t revolutionary if the only time you even think of fat people is when you need to depict a person in power.

Add fat activism to your activism

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there’s this extremely kind soul of a woman on instagram that makes accessible recipes that don’t require standing, chopping, or a stove and she might just have a permanent place in my heart

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i suddenly have waterfall of some deep sea mermaid twink guy fanarts but all i can think about after that is

"wait what if fat folds but gills"

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Do you still have a picture of the poster you made? Is the QR code still working? Bc I was thinking that that might get through to my mom better than a Tumblr post

there's a picture of it in the previous post, but it's handwritten and hard to read. the QR code leads to this document:

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pics or it didn't happen.

anon, I really am that serious

#direct action !!!!!

the thin white woman who owned the place saw us smashing scales, came outside, and asked, “getting out some frustration?” in the most condescending way possible. I replied, “we’re demonstrating to raise awareness of the risks of intentional weight loss. virtually all diets fail and prescribed weight loss is the leading predictor of eating disorders.” she asked, “why me?! why my clinic?” I said “it’s just your unlucky day.” (I mean, I only picked her clinic because it had the words “CHICAGO WEIGHT LOSS” plastered on the front of it). we packed it up shortly after she threatened to call the cops, but the poster somehow traveled to the suburbs. people were scanning the QR code days after the protest, tens of miles away.

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I want to be clear that I had the intent of raising awareness about the diet industry - I made a huge poster with the information on this post (diets are destined to fail, the weight loss industry is worth $90 billion, and prescribed weight loss is the number one predictor of eating disorders, etc.) It had a big QR code to scan that linked all of the studies I referenced. the lady definitely tore the sign down but days later I was still getting notifications that people were scanning my QR code from that poster, it somehow made its way miles away into the suburbs!

I'm sorry, you smashed scales? With hammers?? In front of a weight loss clinic?? That's possibly the most metal thing I've ever heard

yep. and the owner threatened to call the cops on us