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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Changing Perspectives for Medical Students
We are the next generation of health professionals, but our education on the treatment of larger bodies is being informed by the current establishment. If something is to change, it needs to start with us.
The History of Health at Every Size®: Chapter 4: The 1980s
The decade of the 1980s was characterized in part by Reagonomics and a “greed is good” business ethos; the burgeoning size of Americans along with a greater societal focus on physical fitness; women increasingly entering and competing in the workforce; the emergence of AIDS; the explosive rise of personal computing, and the end of the Berlin Wall and the Cold War.
2020: A Year in Review
NAAFA has worked to support and combat the negative effects of 2020 with positive change.
Santa and Stigma: Thoughts on the Thinning of a Fat Icon
There is only one kind of Santa experience I cannot abide. There is no room in my life for Body Shame Santa Stories.
Surviving the Season
Here we are in the middle of a holiday season in the middle of a pandemic. Disappointment is high. Pressure is high. Stress is on overdrive.
The Importance of Intersectionality
An intersectional view of fat activism is key to NAAFA’s survival as an organization.
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.