NAAFA Community Voices Blog

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Activism, BIPOC, Events, Fat Liberation Month, Guest Posts Darliene Howell Activism, BIPOC, Events, Fat Liberation Month, Guest Posts Darliene Howell

What Freedom Ain't: Fat Liberation for Folks Who Mean It

As fat activists and our accomplices continue to imagine a world free from fat antagonism and shaming, discrimination, and inaccessibility through NAAFA’s first ever Fat Liberation Month and beyond, let us also be reminded of the things that can hold us back. We can keep each other accountable, build more effectively, and perhaps move more expeditiously toward liberation. This is what freedom ain’t.

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Activism, Fat Liberation Month, Guest Posts Lindley Ashline Activism, Fat Liberation Month, Guest Posts Lindley Ashline

What fat liberation means to me: It's not just about "all bodies"

In this reflection on Fat Liberation, Lindley Ashline talks about how she defines it, how fat liberation differs from body liberation, fat liberation vs body positivity, how she arrived at this point in fat liberation and how it affects her business as a photographer, activist and writer.

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