There Is No Liberation For All Bodies Without The Liberation of Fat Black Women And Femmes
In her piece for our #BodyPositivityInColor campaign, Sydney Greene writes about how the body positivity community centers and celebrates cisgender, thin, white women and erases why we need fat acceptance and ignores the labor of fat Black women and femmes
Six Queer BIPOC Voices in the Body Positive Movement
Body positivity, as a movement, was meant to give space to bodies that an oppressive society says are not worthy of love and acceptance. The body positive movement has a lot of problems—not in the general message that we all deserve
Angry Black Bitch: The Punishment for Being Too Real
In organizing spaces and in social situations (sometimes they overlap), I’m constantly running into the same issue: being too real. In this identity of being too real, my identity as a fat Black femme always coincides with how people view
Devaluing Political Beauty When You’re Ugly AF
In discussing body positivity or fat positivity, there is always the overarching concept that beauty standards and the power of beauty are something we need to devalue instead of marketing “everyone is beautiful.” We are trained to believe that being
Ask Ashleigh: Are You Really Broke?
Every time I write or post publicly about my pain with my depression, struggling with surviving antiblackness, living in poverty, and my suicidal thoughts, seven times out of 10 no one believes I’m really hurting as bad I say I