Tag Archives: Fat Acceptance
Faux-acceptance and representation of fat people in media
TweetToday my sister came over. I came downstairs to find her talking with my mom about some Disney channel show they were allowing my niece to watch. The way they were talking about it, I was wondering why they were letting my niece sit in front of it. They were talking about the fat character [...]
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A note on thin privilege: Alexa Chung is not your friend
TweetAlexa Chung, the British fashion model turned TV host, recently gave an interview in which she responded to criticism she had received over some pictures that she had posted of herself on her Instagram account. The outcry against these pictures (which, for the most part, were really pretty innocuous, depicting, for example, an admittedly skeletal [...]
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Female bodies: ‘positive’ rhetoric
TweetThis is a great article. Not just because it celebrates Christina Hendricks as one of the few contemporary celebrities who has healthy amounts of flesh on their bones as standard (not just ‘for a role’ or because they’re in some sort of emotional meltdown….can’t blame the latter really), but, in contrast, because it also succinctly exemplifies [...]
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“We Need Fashion to Catch Up To Women of Size”
TweetOriginally posted at Female Impersonator I love this piece over at Jezebel. In it, Dodai Stewart comments on an interview with Velvet d’Amour, a plus-sized actress, model and photographer. Some of my favorite quotes by d’Amour that are mentioned in the Jezebel piece are: Fleshy, curvy women have been relegated to men’s magazines, whilst edgy [...]
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