if you post weight loss before and after pics i will instantly unfollow you
(it’s triggering and inherently fatphobic )

what you choose to do with your body is your business but promoting and celebrating weight loss is triggering for many people and is deeply entrenched in fatphobia.

what you’re showing every fat person is that our bodies are something to hate, something to celebrate becoming smaller.

diet culture is buried in capitalism and racism, i am no longer gently asking people to educate themselves, now is the time to examine every way you make passes in your life for these violent systems.

this also extends to the way fitness culture had adopted “body positive” language in ways that promote fatphobia insidiously. do what makes you feel good in your body, but the ways we celebrate our bodies becoming smaller is still deeply entwined in fatphobia.

fitness and health aren’t synonymous with thinness, fitness and health looks different in every body. if your celebration of fitness, strength, and health in your body comes with relief of feeling and looking smaller, that’s internalized fatphobia.

wait i’m not done: even with in fat activism and “fat acceptance” we need to examine the ways we celebrate a certain “type” of fat body: generally white, cis, hyper feminine women, with no visible belly, thin arms and legs, the smallest of back rolls.

under radical fat activism, we need to celebrate ALL fat people: Black, trans, disabled, femme, masc, Indigenous, etc. be aware within fat activism the ways you are still upholding ableism, transphobia, and racism. the very roots of fatphobia are rooted in anti-Black racism.