This reminds me of when folks misuse HAES. They say "healthy" at every size, and that's not the same as health at every size. We're not out here claiming every body is healthy, we are claiming the right to equal and kind health care, and to not be stigmatized for our weight. Loved this article!
This was perfect. Can you please send it to the NYT? Not that they would understand the urgency of your perspective , but boy is this the narrative that society needs an introduction to. Thank you thank you!
I wonder (not really) why the msm isn’t publishing the stories of the former influencers who went from a shallower understanding of what body positivity as a social media movement could offer them to what fat liberation can do for everyone but especially centering those most and multiply marginalized. That trajectory is far more interesting and rare.
I so appreciate your response. A client sent me the opinion piece last week, and I've been processing it ever since. I'll be sending her your words as we continue to process all the opinions about our bodies.
I’ve always wondered how the major influencers in the body positivity movement took the ideal of loving your body , which would undoubtedly mean taking care of it and keeping it healthy, whatever that means for that body, and turned it into meaning embracing a lack of care for oneself and pushing that ethos onto others. Yes, in general the medical community is bias as hell, but you change your doctor, you don’t refuse to be involved in your own state of health until your friends start dropping, that’s not positivity at all, it’s just neglect
You cannot talk about body positivity without talking about the way fat bodies have been neglected and ignored by the medical establishment, and the advent of GLP-1s if anything has just exacerbated that. Why heal you when I can try and make you smaller? Great article - the movement never fit me and I couldn’t voice it completely.
HELL YESSSSSS I WANT TO PRINT THIS OUT AND PLASTER IT ON EVERY INCH OF THE EARRRRRTHHHH
Amanda you are spot on. Your wording articulates the sticky mess we live in.
This reminds me of when folks misuse HAES. They say "healthy" at every size, and that's not the same as health at every size. We're not out here claiming every body is healthy, we are claiming the right to equal and kind health care, and to not be stigmatized for our weight. Loved this article!
This was perfect. Can you please send it to the NYT? Not that they would understand the urgency of your perspective , but boy is this the narrative that society needs an introduction to. Thank you thank you!
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Excellent writing as always. Thank you for helping me untangle the mess of thoughts in my head about my body.
I've been sitting with a lot of these ideas myself lately. Thank you so much for expressing these complex ideas so beautifully.
I wonder (not really) why the msm isn’t publishing the stories of the former influencers who went from a shallower understanding of what body positivity as a social media movement could offer them to what fat liberation can do for everyone but especially centering those most and multiply marginalized. That trajectory is far more interesting and rare.
I so appreciate your response. A client sent me the opinion piece last week, and I've been processing it ever since. I'll be sending her your words as we continue to process all the opinions about our bodies.
amanda THANK U
Brilliant, as always.
I’ve always wondered how the major influencers in the body positivity movement took the ideal of loving your body , which would undoubtedly mean taking care of it and keeping it healthy, whatever that means for that body, and turned it into meaning embracing a lack of care for oneself and pushing that ethos onto others. Yes, in general the medical community is bias as hell, but you change your doctor, you don’t refuse to be involved in your own state of health until your friends start dropping, that’s not positivity at all, it’s just neglect
This is what should be in the NYT
You cannot talk about body positivity without talking about the way fat bodies have been neglected and ignored by the medical establishment, and the advent of GLP-1s if anything has just exacerbated that. Why heal you when I can try and make you smaller? Great article - the movement never fit me and I couldn’t voice it completely.
Yesssss!! Hit the nail on the head, thank you!!
Great job, thank you for writing this.