This month we're sharing some pieces about anti-racism in arts and entertainment.
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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.
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This month we're sharing support for Transgender People of Color.
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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.
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This month we're highlighting how some of the organizations we've partnered with in the past are celebrating Black History Month by sharing resources that educate, enrich, and promote allyship while centering black voices.
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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.
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This month we are discussing various perspectives on the practice of Land Acknowledgements. Land acknowledgements are written or verbal statements recognizing and honoring those who are indigenous to the places we live and work.
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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.
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Content 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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Each month, we will be featuring educational resources on the NAAFA Community Voices Blog. Some resources will be historic information about systemic racism. Others will be resources on doing the internal work of understanding ourselves and how we play a part in that system. This month’s Anti-Racism Resources focus on Indigenous People in honor of Indigenous Heritage Month.
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This month we are looking at anti-discrimination and/or anti-rasicm legislation that has passed and those that are currently pending in the 117th Congress, which will end January 3, 2023. For the pending legislation, there is a link to information about who sponsored it, the actual text, and actions taken. It’s important to be aware of our rights and how legislation can support us in our work to end racism. If you have questions or comments about a specific resolution, bill or act, you can contact your representative via email.
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CW: Health concern trolling
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!
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The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history. In the March 1987 issue you will find: a prominent health writer taking a stand against dieting, activism letter writing campaign, an update on the 1987 Convention planning, and an invitation to volunteer with NAAFA.
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Fatshion (the term currently being used for fat fashion) and fatshionistas (those that love fat fashion) are something we see on social media every day. But what do we know of the history of women’s fat fashion?
This is part 2 of a 2-part review of the history of fat fashion visibility.
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Fatshion (the term currently being used for fat fashion) and fatshionistas (those that love fat fashion) are something we see on social media every day. But what do we know of the history of women’s fat fashion?
This is part 1 or a 2-part review of the history of fat fashion visibility.
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The annual Weight Stigma Conference (WSC) is an international interdisciplinary gathering of scholars, advocates, community leaders, and others whose work addresses weight stigma (bias against people who are considered “overweight” in their cultures). Founded by British scholar and activist Dr. Angela Meadows in 2013, the conference has been held in Birmingham (UK), Canterbury (UK), Reykjavik (Iceland), Vancouver (Canada), Prague (Czchek Republic), Leeds (UK), and London (UK). Although the conference was founded in 2013, COVID-related delays made this year the 8th offering of the in-person conference, with a commitment to adding more virtual elements in 2023 and a fully hybrid conference in 2024. 2023 and 2024 locations are yet to be announced.
NAAFA has supported the conference as a sponsor for many years. This year, for the first time, we sent an official delegation. Board Chair Tigress Osborn and Board Member-at-Large Elaine Lee traveled to Berlin in July to represent NAAFA at the conference and learn from fat community leaders from sixteen countries.
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This a Fat History Flashback that explores the events surrounding an issue that effected fat community. It is a feature of Fat Liberation Month and is created by NAAFA.
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NAAFA is introducing RESEARCH SURVEY OPPORTUNITIES, a new monthly feature in the NAAFA Newsletter and on the NAAFA Community Voices Blog,.
The purpose of this feature is to share the opportunity to participate in surveys or studies that directly affect fat community. These research participation opportunities have been presented to NAAFA for possible sharing by the individuals or organizations that are leading the research. They were not created by nor are they sponsored by NAAFA.
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According to Meriam Webster, Asexuality (Ace) is: not having sexual feelings toward others : not experiencing sexual desire or attraction. Basically, it is an inborn absence of sexual desire.
Fat Liberation or Body Positivity can be hard spaces for Asexual people to navigate sometimes because for many, body liberation also includes sexual/sensual aspects of their lives. For myself personally, talk of fat sex/pleasure or images of those things makes me uncomfortable.
Finding safety in Queer spaces can be hard for Asexual people. When you are Fat and Asexual, it also comes with all the Fat bias, weight stigma, Fat hate too.
Asexual people are not wrong or broken or looking for attention. We are here and we are valid.
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For 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!
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