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The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history.
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Content warning: Use of language that may be triggering
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history.
Read MoreContent warning: Use of language that may be triggering
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history.
Read MoreContent warning: Use of language that may be triggering
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history.
Read MoreContent warning: Use of language that may be triggering
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history.
Read MoreContent warning: Use of language that may be triggering
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history.
Read MoreContent warning: Use of language that may be triggering
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history.
Read MoreContent warning: Use of language that may be triggering
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history.
Read MoreContent warning: Use of language that may be triggering
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history.
Read MoreContent warning: Use of language that may be triggering
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history.
Read MoreContent warning: Use of language that may be triggering
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history.
Read MoreContent warning: Use of language that may be triggering
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history.
Read MoreContent warning: Use of language that may be triggering
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history.
Read MoreContent warning: Use of language that may be triggering
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history.
Read MoreContent warning: Use of language that may be triggering
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history.
Read MoreContent warning: Reviews of a documentary mention the "O" word and WLS, as well as discussion of guidelines put out by an organization for evaluating commercial IWL promotions
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history. In the June 1987 issue you will find: Discussion and commentary about: the documentary "Life in the Fat Lane"; guidelines for evaluating commercial weight loss promotions; NAAFA committee appointments and a message from the Newsletter editor; a review of a live show, "The Late Great Ladies of Blues and Jazz"!
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The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history. In the April 1987 issue you will find: 1987 Convention updates, Matrix Woman's Newsmagazine devotes an issue to fat liberation, outrage in activism, media and publicity information, health concern trolling, and more!
Read MoreFor the latest information and research on fatness, check out the Media & Research Roundup. This issue features: body positivity and what "everyone knows"; Texas State Troopers are facing disciplinary action based on their waist circumference; how food hierarchies can be antifatness, classist and racist; a petition against weighing children in school, and more!
Read MoreIn this piece for Women’s History Month 2022, Barbara Altman Bruno PhD gives us a glimpse into why she felt “driven” in working to end fat stigma and toward fat liberation. Dr. Bruno conveys some of the history of the fat acceptance/fat liberation movement from her perspective, the beginnings of Health At Every Size and her work in preserving our history for the future.
Read MoreDecolonizing Wellness Book Giveaway!
Dalia Kinsey (Nonbinary|No Pronouns) is a queer, small fat, Black Registered Dietitian, the creator of the Body Liberation for All podcast, and author of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation. Dalia and publishers are giving away a free copy of the book to someone in our NAAFA community. Read the blog post to enter the giveaway! Enter by 2/28/22.
For the latest information and research on fatness, check out the Media and Research Roundup. This issue features: a travel article featuring Chubby Diaries travel blogger, Jeff Jenkins; a podcast interview; long term risks associated with WLS; Jessamyn Stanley shows how fitness instructors can become a fat ally and more!
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