Someday I'm gonna remember to promote my FAT QUEER MERFOLK COLORING BOOK during MerMay and Pride Month....

Support a struggling queer artist, guv'na? Help feed me kitties? :<

shoutout to all the fat people i've seen wearing whatever the fuck they want in public. shoutout to the fats who wear the skimpiest clothing. shoutout to the fats who wear alt fashion, including cutesy kinds. shoutout to the fats who go to the beach shirtless or on bikinis. shoutout to the fats who wear stripes and light colors, or other clothes we're told aren't flattering on us. shoutout to the fats who wear athletic wear. shoutout the fats who wear the comfiest oversized clothing. shoutout the fats who wear what they want regardless of what thins/"fits" think.

all of you are marvelous and have slowly but surely inspired me to wear whatever the fuck i want as well. i wish you and all other fats nothing but happiness and comfort in self expression <3

FaT GiRL zine vol 6

skinny ppl stop calling plus sizes “oversized” !!! they’re ME sized!!! stop marketing the clothing I need to a thin audience!!! u guys have options!!!

Can you share you archive/masterlist of resources?

I’d have to make one in order to do that 😅 I either remember them off of the top of my head or dive into research, but you’re welcome to look through my tag #resources.

I am always astonished by how many resources you have for every single person. how do you do it

been here a long time! the autism helps tho

Hi there!! I was wondering if you have any idea where i can find pictures of Fat people with tattoos on their stomach

(and honestly anywhere, im just considering a tat around my bellybutton, so i wanna gather refs and ideas)

but i hope you have a great day!!! thank you for the work you do for us fat people out in the world

Yes! Check out the IG page Good Tattoos on Fat Bodies (@fatandtattooed) !!! ✨hope you have a great day too :)

Not really related to much you’ve been posting recently but I’m a final year nursing major and want to help advocate for my fat patients but doctors are know-it-alls and will not really listen unless I have scientific evidence but because healthcare is so biased (as you know) I’m having trouble finding non fatphobic studies. Do you have resources I can use to help advocate for my fat patients or back me up since doctors won’t listen?

see my last post

Do you know where I can find studies for fat bias in healthcare or disproving fatphobic stereotypes in any way? i’m looking to make a binder for my workplace at a hospital to show providers in a way to advocate for my fat patients

I recently compiled 29 sources on this - you’ll find more in my tag #resources.

NO WEIGH! For Professionals is a great primer on anti fat bias specifically for healthcare professionals.

If you’re able to ask the question “what if I have body dysmorphia?” in response to my claim that no one needs to or should call themselves fat in pejorative way when they are not in fact fat, then you’re already acknowledging that you don’t belong to the class of people who are fat and who experience all the attendant abuses and discrimination. You know, at least in this moment, that what you have is a mental disorder, not a fat body. So I’m gonna go out on a limb and suggest that you practice saying “my body dysmorphia is really bad right now” instead of “I’m so fat.” You’ve already proven you can do it—the question is whether you care enough about other people to stop saying that their bodies are your living nightmare

As a wheelchair user I'm trying to reframe my language for "being in the way."

"I'm in the way," "I can't fit," and "I can't go there," is becoming "there's not enough space," "the walkway is too narrow," and "that place isn't accessible."

It's a small change, but to me it feels as if I'm redirecting blame from myself to the people that made these places inaccessible in the first place. I don't want people to just think that they're helping me, I want them to think that they're making up for someone else's wrongdoing. I want them to remember every time I've needed help as something someone else caused.

Source

CDC Wastewater Viral Activity Monitoring

BreatheTeq

People of any body type, and especially fat people, are allowed to love food and openly talk about how great it is, there is nothing wrong with that and you have no right to shame them for finding joy in food

Fat bodies are mentioned most often in terms of the negative space left behind by the pounds lost, the dress sizes dropped, the inches shrunk—fat bodies are only valued for their absence.

There's a phrase you may have heard, that 'inside every fat person, there's a thin person waiting to get out'. It makes fat bodies sound like a prison, like the grotesque carapace of Kafka's beetle, with the real self like a trapped and frightened Gregor Samsa inside. Society is deeply permeated with the idea that my fat body isn't my 'real' body, and that I need to dig and excavate and starve out my true self, rescuing my inner thin princess from the imprisoning tower of my body.

This idea taught me not to feel fully connected to my body—after all, so much of my body is dead weight, it's not really me, my fatness isn't who I am, so why bother fully inhabiting it?

For years I didn't embrace my body. I was like someone squatting in a few rooms of a mansion, pretending that I was living in a condo and ignoring the three wings, twenty-four bedrooms, ballroom, bowling alley, and the entire library from Disney's Beauty and the Beast that make up my body.

—‘Where Are the Fat Girls? The Absence of Plus-Size Characters in Fantasy Literature’ by Charis M. Ellison [video]

How do you define fat? Am I fat if doctors only recommend Ozempic and not surgery?

fat is a sliding scale, I personally would consider a person fat once they are met with certain barriers, like lack of easy access to clothing and seating options, or like you said, doctors prescribing weight loss (BOOO!) a good metric for telling you’re plus sized is simply having to shop in plus size clothing sections.

fat prom makes me wish i lived close by so bad!! that sounds like such a good time!

we will most likely hold another one next year!