The fashion industry continued to let this terrible person hold a place of high-esteem and reduced his commentary to Lagerfeld simply being a bit eccentric. Chanel’s creative director, Karl Lagerfeld, died at 85 on Tuesday in Paris. Lagerfeld, known for being “the King of Fashion” and a prolific designer who left his mark on the...
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How Mainstream Body Positivity Has Failed Us
To launch our #BodyPositivityInColor campaign, Sherronda J. Brown discusses why the mainstream movement needs an intervention and how decolonizing our ideas about body composition and function, while centering queer, trans/GNC, fat, and disabled BIPOC and our rage, can help move the conversation to a place where we can imagine more than just positivity and self-love...
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Everything That We Know About Obesity Is An Indictment Of White Supremacy
Everything we know about obesity is wrong, and everything about who we listen to on the subject of fatness and fatphobia is bullshit. By Hess Love I can’t blame Michael Hobbes for writing “Everything you know about obesity is wrong” or for writing what seems to be meant as a compassionate piece. It was well...
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The Body Positivity Movement Both Takes From And Erases Fat Black Women
It’s time to focus on the people who built movements, not just the ones who conveniently profit from them. Édouard Manet’s “Olympia” depicts a nude white woman laying in bed upon a pile of pillows while a Black maid serves her. Olympia is, of course, the focus of the painting. She’s white and stands out...
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Cora Harrington’s ‘In Intimate Detail’ Is The Inclusive Book On Lingerie We Deserve
“In Intimate Detail” is thorough, thoughtful and inclusive. Like many other people, I’ve had a complicated relationship to my body and undergarments. I felt out of place in my own skin, consistently made to feel as if my limbs, my breasts and butt were at the mercy of objectification, and later, assault. Buying lingerie seemed...
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My Fitness Journey Does Not Have To Be About Weight Loss
Not a single person who has ever fat-shamed me has even bothered to asked me if I want to be thin. I don’t. I hate the gym. It’s a traumatic space for me. Being a fat person in public is hard, and being a fat person in a gym is even harder. It can shatter...
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‘Insatiable’ is Hoping We Don’t Notice That it’s Fatphobic Trash
We can’t look at Patty and feel empowered by her character when she is a walking testament to everything we are told is wrong with us. Netflix loves revenge stories, especially super problematic revenge stories that push harmful stereotypes and reinforce dangerous narratives. 13 Reasons Why has had a controversial run on the platform, and...
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Six Queer BIPOC Voices in the Body Positive Movement
Body positivity, as a movement, was meant to give space to bodies that an oppressive society says are not worthy of love and acceptance. The body positive movement has a lot of problems—not in the general message that we all deserve the space to love our bodies as they are, but in representation. The movement...
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The “D” Word Needs to be Removed From Our Vocabulary
Remaining positive about our bodies and keeping our head above the water of diet culture is a constant struggle. [Content Note: This article will discuss the use of the word “diet” in both a general sense and a restriction sense. The point of this post is to help dismantle diet culture and educate those on...
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Staying Body Positive in Conversations Around Weight Loss
Let’s make sure we stay body positive and aren’t feeding into the toxic diet culture when talking about our journey. By Dr. Jonathan P. Higgins A few months ago I was reminded of how much I missed working out. As someone who viewed the gym as one of the best stress relievers, I began to...