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Do you ever think about how fat nonbinary people who were AFAB are consistantly shoved into a feminine box / forced into feminine roles and beauty standards by…. literally everyone??

Like?? We can’t be seen as andro / masculine because we dont fit into the ‘Classic Nonbinary Aesthetic’ (thin / heavily andro because of that thinness). A lot of the time we HAVE to wear Feminine clothing bc the accesible clothing industries dont make those NB styles in our size (and yeah no, Im not buying a $100 pair of custom pants online, bc not everyone has money to dole out on Wardrobe. The fact that id have to pay more than $20 is a huge issue too).

Society in general doesnt see People with large hips and thighs, big butts, and big chests as anything but Fat Women– and society includes other LGBTQIA people. Us having fat-female characteristics is nearly inescapable and that ideal and inital ‘Theyre too fat to be andro / masculine’ thought pattern COMPLETELY needs to change.

Like…The fact that I am fat does not make me a lesser Nonbinary person. My hips, my thighs, my chest, my smaller waist do not make me a lesser Nonbinary person– and they definitely dont make me a woman. What I wear to accomodate my body does not make me less Nonbinary. Change that fucking narrative.

Akira Armstrong was in two Beyoncé videos, but couldn’t find an agent to represent her as a professional dancer because of her size. To change the narrative around what a dancer’s body should look like, Akira started her own dance company, made up of plus-size dancers. “Pretty Big Movement” is destroying dancer stereotypes, one routine at a time.

If you good enough for Yonce you’re good enough for the universe

hey fun fact: obese wlw are just as sapphic as thin wlw. fat girls are allowed to love girls and to like / want sex with girls and to love themselves and to be lesbians or bi or pan or poly. fat and obese women are not disgusting or wrong when loving women or when having sex with women or when wanting sex with women

you should reblog this tbh

🙌 🙌 🙌 🙌  Fat shaming isn’t ok — regardless of who says it.  #rg 📷@nataliemeansnice

let’s advocate for baggy clothes on fat girls u don’t look sloppy u look cute baggy clothes aren’t a skinny girl exclusive

can we destroy the idea that to be considered nb you need to be white, have your hair cut short & dyed, have blue/green/hazel eyes, are skinny, and be perfectly androgynous ??? because honestly you can be nonbinary and still look feminine or masculine, you can use whatever pronouns you feel comfortable with. nb people have varying skin tones. they’re not all the same. please stop characterizing us as such

Watch: Why ABC and NBC didn’t want you to see Lane Bryant’s new body positive ad

More like this @this-is-life-actually

when thin women say these things about themselves the world applauds them for it, but the idea of fat women loving ourselves scares people so, so much

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God fucking FORBID fat women get seen in a way that isn’t about fucking weight loss and shitty jokes!!!! GOD FUCKING FORBID

Zootopia (2016) dir. Byron Howard and Rich Moore

“weeeeh i cant afford healthy food”

here’s an idea……..

grow it…. yourself……

Gardens are a very valuable resource, and can help many in times of hunger or need – it’s absolutely true that people could benefit from gardening. There are many resources online that can help you get started.

However, depending on where people live and the limited yardspace they may have, gardening isn’t always possible. Climate affects which fruits, vegetables and herbs can be planted, as does the amount of space you have – you can’t fit a watermelon or pumpkin patch in your backyard. Sure, growing cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, strawberries, so on might not be too tricky, but are you suggesting people can live off of just those things in their diet? Not comfortably, at least, or safely for that matter – people need a wide array of food in their diet, including starches and proteins. Should I start kneading my own bread from scratch? Gathering wheat in the fields of the countryside? What if I live in a city? A suburb? Too bad… I guess I’m a shameful human being, in that case.

Speaking of cities, many people don’t have the kind of conditions ideal for a garden, and yes, there are farmer’s markets and other supplies of wholesome food, but not in every city, and not necessarily at prices everyone can afford. So if you can’t grow your own food and want fresh stuff, yes, you have to pay more for it. That’s how our system works in the US, unfortunately.

If you wanted to suggest gardening as a healthy option for those who can pursue it, awesome! Give people resources and information on how to do so, or links to affordable farmer’s markets or organic food suppliers in different cities. But I think we all know that wasn’t your intention – telling fat people and people with low income to just grow their own food instead of whining about it helps no one, and doesn’t indicate you actually care about their wellbeing.

Derogative weight loss rhetoric like this is a microaggression. If you want to criticize somebody, criticize the ones responsible for our food culture, the CEOs with all of the money and influence that bar people from access to fresh food while promoting cheaper, less healthy alternatives.

And you know what? I don’t have to go out and eat fresh cucumbers every day to have value as a human being. I’m fat, and so what? I don’t need to apologize for anything, and my diet and personal wellbeing are nobody’s business. End of story.

Why don’t you go in your backyard and, I dunno… start a garden, instead of putting people down on the internet?

^^^THIS.

Just WOW. Have you ever had a garden? Do you have any idea how hard it is to maintain one when you work 60 hour weeks? And also HAVE NO YARD because you live in a small apartment with roommates in the city?

I just cannot believe how far people will go to shame poor people who LITERALLY cannot afford to feed themselves well.

“Fat acceptance” blogs urging overweight people to shed negative feelings about their body image can lead to healthier diet and exercise choices, a study has found.

The fat acceptance movement, which seeks to foster a support network among overweight people, has inspired a plethora of blogs and web forums such as Corpulent, Fat Heffalump and The Rotund — an online community that’s become known as the “fatosphere”.

In a study published in the journal Qualitative Health Research, researchers from Monash University, the University of New England and the University of Canberra interviewed 44 fatosphere bloggers from Australia, the US and the UK about how their involvement in the movement had changed them.

“There’s been a lot of criticism of the movement that it promotes obesity and encourages people to give up on weight loss and makes their health worse,” said one of the researchers, Dr Samantha Thomas, a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University’s Department of Marketing.

“We saw there was a lot of opinion about the movement but very few people had actually studied it.”

Interviews with the respondents revealed many had experienced feelings of worthlessness, shame, crash diets, cycles of starvation and binge eating and laxative abuse before discovering the fatosphere.

“Having that support and feeling empowered, people slowly found that their health behaviours began to change dramatically. For example, many people suddenly felt confident to do swimming, something they would not have done before,” she said.

“People shifted their focus away from weight loss and more toward health. A lot of people started to take part in physical activity not as a way to lose weight but because they enjoyed it. Instead of pounding it out on the treadmill they start playing with their kids. It’s actually a massive shift in the way they looked at things.”

Shifting the focus away from restricting food and toward listening to the body’s needs could also lead to better food choices, said Dr Thomas.

“There are actually a lot of lessons for public health here,” she said.

“The term fat acceptance is really confronting for people. That’s why we have seen a lot of blame and criticism. Society tells us it’s not OK to be fat for a whole bunch of moral and medical reasons,” she said.

“This study shows that far from promoting obesity and promoting negative health behaviours, the movement is really positive for some people’s health.”

th3skinny:

Surprise! When you’re not made to feel miserable about yourself, you become more motivated to take care of the self that you have. Who knew?

Fining the parents of obese children is fining the poor for being poor. (via salon)

Love this. No one makes this argument though because they just want to use health as justification to bully and fat shame people 

(via thinkliberalthoughts)

this honestly just came out of left fucking field i would have never expected to hear anything like this in this show. consider me Pleasantly Surprised tbh

This was the autism episode

my friend from high school just posted this.

please read it and then read it again.

All these lovely ladies weigh 154lbs. We all carry weight differently, don’t live your life by an outdated chart. Find a number that looks and feels good.

TAKE A GOOD LOOK. WEIGHT COMES IN DIFFERENT SHAPES AND SIZES.

This is actually a really lovely artistic reference as well. Also HOLY SHIT NEW REBLOG SYSTEM??? dang.

shoutout to fat people who aren’t athletic, who have health problems related to weight, who aren’t good at taking care of themselves, who don’t diet, who eat junk food, who don’t want to lose weight, who don’t fit the behavior model of the Good Fat you’re still lovely and beautiful and valuable

Beauty Redefined- The Lies We Buy: Defining Health at Women’s Expense

 “It is now widely accepted that the BMI is useless for assessing the healthy weight of individuals.”

 “It is now widely accepted that the BMI is useless for assessing the healthy weight of individuals.”

 “It is now widely accepted that the BMI is useless for assessing the healthy weight of individuals.”

(via parsecstogo)

Homosexuality used to be a medical condition. Please talk to me about the infallibility of the medical profession.

And shut the fuck up trying to equate to wealth to health and fitness. I’m 6’1 and 250 pounds. I can run a half marathon in 2 hours and 25 mins. Tell me again how fat people can’t be fit.

This is about poor nutrition, the economy and sedentary lifestyles. Pure and simple.

What this is really about:

How about concern trolls STOP pretending they care about the health of fat people? You find fat people aesthetically displeasing to look at and you’re trying to find an excuse to say so without looking like an asshole.

You do not care about fat peoples’ health.

You just want to shame them into losing weight.

Also, hey, novel idea? But someone’s “health” (by which we really mean their weight, but whether a heavier person “takes care of themselves” or not) is not correlated to their value as a human fucking being.

Also, how about not acting like health is some perfect measure for human worth either? It's just as arbitrary as weight or BMI, because guess what, there are many people who are at "normal" weights and appear healthy (read: skinny) but who have serious illnesses that prevent them from leading active lifestyles and mean they're never actually going to be healthy.

Let's put it this way: you're allowed to seek as healthy a lifestyle for yourself as you want; you're welcome to eat as little and exercise as much as you want; you can try to gain or lose as much weight as you like. What you DON'T get to do is pass judgement on others for making different choices than you would. So how about you sit down and shut the fuck up, anon.