Welcome to the NAAFA Community Voices Blog!
Under the guidance of editor Samantha Puc and the NAAFA Board of Directors, the Community Voices Blog features writing from members of the fat community and our allies, especially those who are also disabled, LGBTQIA2S+, People of Color, and superfat/infinifat. We prioritize pieces that approach fat liberation and fat rights through an intersectional lens and seek to feature a diverse array of voices on fat experiences, cultural critiques of fatness in media, and more.
Additionally, we spotlight fat changemakers and provide resource guides and other tools for our community to engage in combating anti-fatness, advocating for fat rights, creating anti-racist approaches to fat liberation, and supporting systematically excluded communities.
The NAAFA Community Voices Blog seeks to cover all aspects of the fat experience, which often includes difficult subject matter. Although we do not accept pro-diet or pro-weight loss content for the blog, some posts may discuss diet culture and weight loss within the context of fat acceptance and liberation. Individual posts will include more specific content warnings.
DISCLAIMER: Any views or opinions stated on the NAAFA Community Voices Blog are personal and belong solely to the author. They do not represent the views or opinions of NAAFA or the people, institutions, or organizations the owner may or may not be associated with in professional or personal capacities, unless explicitly stated. Any views or opinions are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, or individual.
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Can We End the Era of Endless Ozempic Coverage?
The term “Ozempic Era” is being used by scholars, researchers, and journalists to talk about this moment in time when Ozempic seems to be a national obsession.
Intermittent Fasting: The Meal-Skipping Fad
Intermittent fasting (IF) started like so many other diet fads, spreading on social media and then jumping to commercial weight loss programs.
Body Positivity Coverage Lags Way Behind Weight-Loss Storie
Year-round, media coverage of “larger bodied people” is almost 120 more times likely to focus on diet and weight loss than on weight stigma, bias or discrimination.
The Oppression of a Weight Cycling Culture
In any other industry, if you had a failure rate of 95%, you'd be closing the doors. But diet culture has lied to us and told us that they didn't fail, we did.