"[Trigger Warning: Eating Disorders] The reality is that fat people are often supported in hating their bodies, in starving themselves, in engaging in unsafe exercise, and in seeking out weight loss by any means necessary. A thin person who does these things is considered mentally ill. A fat person who does these things is redeemed by them. This is why our culture has no concept of a fat person who also has an eating disorder. If you’re fat, it’s not an eating disorder — it’s a lifestyle change."

Lesley Kinzel (via curvesahead)

I will always reblog this because it is so so important. 

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I just want to nail this to every stable surface I can find. I cannot count the amount of times that I’ve seen fat folks being encouraged, cajoled, and even forced into behaviors that would be recognized as disordered eating/exercising patterns in thin folks. 

Pretty much everything that’s done on shows like The Biggest Loser would be called out as pro-ana/pro-orthorexia in a thin person. Exercising past the point that it hurts, to the point where you’re throwing up, even injuring yourself? Berating yourself because you didn’t lose ENOUGH weight this week? Constantly talking about how fat is weakness and thinness will make everything better, about how you can’t stand to be your current weight anymore? Emphasis on weight as a sign of how much control, strength, and worth you have? Viewing food as bad, as a temptation to sin? Constant sharing and talking about tips on how to minimize food intake, how to lose weight? 

That sounds exactly like every pro-ana/pro-mia blog I’ve ever seen. It’s also what fat people are told we need to be doing to ourselves until we’re thin. 

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rosalarian:

lenoralenoire:

This is really powerful.

Oh my god, this is such a perfect way to make a statement.

Thank you. Just. Thank you.

rosalarian:

lenoralenoire:

This is really powerful.

Oh my god, this is such a perfect way to make a statement.

Thank you. Just. Thank you.

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darkskinnedblackbeauty:

http://forbrowngirls.tumblr.com/
FBG’s first tee is the featured “I Love My Shade” tee. It is for women all complexions, encouraging them to embrace and love the skin they’re in! 
This beautiful young lady is holding up a grey tee! If you like what you see, please get ready to support my kickstarter campaign to raise money to produce more so you can get one, too :)
Thanks!,
Kay

darkskinnedblackbeauty:

http://forbrowngirls.tumblr.com/

FBG’s first tee is the featured “I Love My Shade” tee. It is for women all complexions, encouraging them to embrace and love the skin they’re in! 

This beautiful young lady is holding up a grey tee! If you like what you see, please get ready to support my kickstarter campaign to raise money to produce more so you can get one, too :)

Thanks!,

Kay

(via brashblacknonbeliever)

I’d join.

friendlyangryfeminist:

can I start a club for feminists who really hate how ugly they feel because they should know better? 

lacigreen:

new motto: just throw a little glitter on it

lacigreen:

from one of the most beautiful videos on youtube.

lacigreen:

from one of the most beautiful videos on youtube.

Tags: yes Body Love

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deviantfemme:

For a while, I wasn’t so fat, that I think people actually thought they could tell me, with a straight face, that I wasn’t fat - I was beautiful. 
I don’t know what people would say, now. I am clearly, obviously, fat - but I don’t think there is anyone in my life who would feel comfortable saying that I was fat and beautiful. Fat is too much of an insult. I have cried too many times because I was fat. 
It’s a scary word for me to try to reclaim, but I want to.

Four for you, Glenn Coco. You go, Glenn Coco.

deviantfemme:

For a while, I wasn’t so fat, that I think people actually thought they could tell me, with a straight face, that I wasn’t fat - I was beautiful. 

I don’t know what people would say, now. I am clearly, obviously, fat - but I don’t think there is anyone in my life who would feel comfortable saying that I was fat and beautiful. Fat is too much of an insult. I have cried too many times because I was fat. 

It’s a scary word for me to try to reclaim, but I want to.

Four for you, Glenn Coco. You go, Glenn Coco.

(Source: fyeahfsex)

lacigreen: