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The fat acceptance movement, also referred to as the fat liberation movement, is a grass-roots effort to change societal attitudes about fat people. The movement, generally accepted as having started in 1969, has gained steam since the 1980s and 1990s, and now includes several activist organizations, publications, and conferences. Sterner hade fel! Elin har rätt som vanligt ...
The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ...
History In 1969, William Fabrey founded the National Association to Aid Fat Americans, later renamed the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA). A few years later in Los Angeles, Sara Fishman (then going by Aldebaran) and Judy Freespirit, founders of a local NAAFA chapter, separated from NAAFA in 1973 to form their own radical activism group, the Fat Underground. Four years later, Fishman moved to New Haven where she, along with Karen Scott-Jones, founded the New Haven Fat Liberation Front, an organization similar to the Fat Underground in its radical (for the time) actions. The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, or NAAFA, was founded in 1969 by William Fabrey in New York. ...
Their writings, along with those of others, were published to a wide audience for the first time in 1983, with the release of Shadow on a Tightrope.
After a relative lull in the mid-1980s to early-1990s, the independent zine community began addressing fat liberation again, with zines like Marilyn Wann's Fat!So? beginning in 1993, Nomy Lamm's I'm So Fucking Beautiful, and the collectively produced 'zine "FaT GiRL -- the 'zine for fat dykes and the women who want them." More Recently, Sabrina Darling has collaborated with other members of the new generation of fat liberation to release the zine Two By Four, Krissy Durden has produced the zine Figure 8 since 2001 and Max Airborne and Cherry Midnight have produced "Size Queen: For Queen-size Queers and Our Loyal Subjects." Sterner hade fel! Elin har rätt som vanligt ...
The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ...
A zine—an abbreviation of the word magazine—is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. ...
Marilyn Wann is one of the key players in the current fat activism movement. ...
1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
Nomy Lamm is an accordion-wielding singer/songwriter/activist, and a self-described “Fat-ass bad-ass jew dyke amputee. ...
In addition to zines, there has recently been a steady stream of books written on the subject including Wann's book of the same title as her zine (1998), Sondra Solovay's "Tipping the Scales of Justice: Fighting Weight-Based Discrimination" (2000);'Largely Happy -changing your mind about your body' by Lynda Finn; 'Don't Diet' by Professor Dale Atrens and a collection of short stories by fat people (What Are You Looking At? 2003) Paul Campos's examination of the health fallacies regarding fatness, 'The Obesity Myth' was published in 2004. In addition, there is an emerging body of fat theory developing in academia, and fat activist student groups at colleges, like those at Hampshire, Smith, and Antioch colleges, have been flourishing.
Susan Stinson's novels and poetry such as Belly Songs (1993) and Venus of Chalk (2004) have integrated the insights of fat liberation into literature. In addition, several collections of short writing, including What Are You Looking At?: The First Fat Fiction Anthology (2003) and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology (2005) have increased visibility of fat people in literature, and helped to dispel many stereotypes about fat people in literature.
Recently, fat performance art has made a positive impact in the fight against sizeism. Groups like The Padded Lillies, Big Burlesque and the Fat Bottom Revue and radical cheerleading groups like F.A.T.A.S.S pdx and The Bod Squad have received significant attention, as have drag troups like the Royal Renegades: The Philadelphia Drag Kings, who feature a variety of body types in their shows. The Resistin Radicatz, a radical cheerleading group, do a cheer in front of AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington before joining the Million Worker March at the Lincoln Memorial. ...
Finally and most recently, there has been a flourishing of national conferences devoted to the subject of fat activism, including NOLOSE in New Jersey, the conference of the former National Organization of Lesbians of SizE (now just NOLOSE); NAAFA's annual convention held alternately on the west and east coasts; and the largest conference, Stacy Bias's FatGirl Speaks in Portland, Oregon. Nickname: City of Roses, Stumptown, Bridgetown Official website: http://www. ...
Background Fat acceptance covers several fronts but generally can be described as attempting to change societal, internal, and medical attitudes about fat people.
Societal: The movement argues that fat people are targets of hatred and discrimination, with women in particular subject to more social pressure. Hatred is seen in multiple places including media outlets, where fat people are often ridiculed or held up as objects of pity. Discrimination, it is argued, comes in the form of lack of equal accessibility to transportation and employment. For the emotion Hatred please see Hate Hatred (Nenavist) is a Soviet film of 1975 directed by Samvel Gasparov. ...
This article is about discrimination in the social science sense. ...
Internal: The movement also argues that people of all shapes and sizes should accept themselves as they are, at any size. It promotes "health at any size," which places one's mental and physical health before physical appearance and size.
Medical: Through the works of authors such as Paul Campos and Sandy Swzarc, the fat acceptance movement has arguably improved its standing on health at any size. The movement's stance is that doctors should treat the problems of fat people independent of weight. Paul Campos is a law professor, author and journalist. ...
The movement faces challenges internally as well. Organizations such as the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) and the International Size Acceptance Association (ISAA) are small, numbers-wise, and people interested in the movement tend to be clustered in larger cities - and spread across medium- to small-sized web communities. In addition, NAAFA's history has been entangled with Dimensions Magazine, a highly visible website for men who have sexual preferences for fat women. NAAFA has recently changed leadership in order to cut these ties, and has made several policy changes (including taking a stance against feederism, the practice of weight gain for sexual pleasure) which were applauded in the fat community. The role of sites such as Dimensions in the movement is a contested issue. The International Size Acceptance Association (ISAA) was formed in July 1997 in Austin, Texas by Allen Steadham. ...
Fat acceptance is a social acceptance issue and has ties and common ground with the feminist movement and is associated with broader civil rights movements. The Feminist movement (also known as the Womens Movement and Womens Liberation) campaigns on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, sexual harassment, discrimination and sexual violence. ...
Visible People in Fat Acceptance - Marilyn Wann, author of FAT!SO? and Activism Chair of NAAFA.
- Nomy Lamm, performance artist and writer of I'm So Fucking Beautiful.
- Paul Campos, author of books such as The Obesity Myth.
- Paul McAleer, author of Big Fat Blog.
- Lynda Finn, author of 'Largely Happy' and 'Healthy Kids, Happy Kids' and vice-chair of International Size Acceptance Association.
- Daniel Pinkwater, author of The Afterlife Diet and other books
- Sandy Szwarc, author of articles challenging widely-held beliefs on fat and health[1]
- Allen Steadham, President and Founder of ISAA.
- Sondra Solovay, weight discrimination lawyer and author of the book "Tipping the Scales of Justice: Fighting Weight-Based Discrimination"
- Stacy Bias, founder of FatGirl Speaks [Portland, ORE]
- Heather MacAllister, founder of Big Burlesque and the Fat Bottom Review
Marilyn Wann is one of the key players in the current fat activism movement. ...
Nomy Lamm is an accordion-wielding singer/songwriter/activist, and a self-described “Fat-ass bad-ass jew dyke amputee. ...
Paul Campos is a law professor, author and journalist. ...
Daniel Pinkwater (b. ...
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