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I love this story of empowerment!

mandacantu:

So I just posted this to my facebook:

“Had an awesome birthday! I had to have some photos taken of me cause I felt really good. I’m 23 and tired of feeling shame for who I am/where I come from. This is me, this is where I come from. I’m a big, gorgeous, struggling latina-american-chicana feminist, wannabe-fatshionista living in a trailer park in Channelview, Tx. I love taking photos of people and things and I think I’m pretty alright. I’m done with feeling ashamed of who I am and where I come from, these things do not hold me back or stop me from wanting to be happy and make art.”

I don’t normally share this kind of content on my facebook and have always tried to hide where I live or find ways to minimize my body and stay quiet when I hear people fat shaming. Well not anymore. I am so done. I turned 23 today and had a revelation. If people don’t like how I feel, how I look or where I come from, fuck them. I can’t please everyone and if you’re gonna judge me, go right ahead. I’m just gonna keep living life and try my best to make the most out of what I have. If that means living with my parents in a trailer park and a good day consist of them not drinking or doing hard drugs, then so be it. This is my reality and I’m tired of being discriminated for it. This is me. I am a fat hot bitch living in a low class situation and I sometimes I feel good enough about myself to make these kinds of post and have these kinds of photos taken of me.

Photos taken by my lovely boyfriend!

02.26.13 ♥ 861
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“ I’ve been asked by people on different ends of the fat lover spectrum about advice being a good ally. From the “My lover doesn’t see how beautiful she is and won’t have sex with the lights on,” to the “My lover uses the term fat to describe themself but I’ve always thought of that as a derogatory word… isn’t it?” For FAT SEX WEEK I’ve highlighted some of the best ways to be a good ally to your fat lover. This is all from my limited perspective, you should obviously be in good communication with your lover to find out what works for them and how they operate in the world. Communication is an essential sex toy! This advice applies to folks of all sizes, not just thinner folks partnered (in all the myriad ways one can partner) with fat folks. And a lot of it is good advice for sex in general, regardless of whether or not your partner is fat.

— FAT SEX WEEK: Seven Ways To Be a Good Ally to Your Fat Lover

02.15.13 ♥ 162
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Black Girl Dangerous: From One Skinny Girl To Others: A Few Words on Fat Phobia

Read this! Such a great article on being a good ally to all folks, with a salient example in body love activism!

blackgirldangerous:

July 5, 2012

Dear Readers,

If you are reading this blog for the first time, or if you have read it many times before, please consider supporting it and the writers whose voices it seeks to amplify. The Black Girl Dangerous Writing Workshop for queer, trans*, and gender-non-conforming writers of…

07.07.12 ♥ 1411
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“ I set my intention and it is this: For the next 75 minutes, don’t look around, don’t compare, don’t list all the ways you are not good enough to be here, and don’t hate yourself. Just Breathe. Just Breathe. Just Breathe. Just be in your body and remember how good a place it is to be, really.

—

An Open Letter to the Fat Girl I Saw at Hot Yoga in New York City. A complicated piece but written from an honest place.

03.08.12 ♥ 18
Zoom JFREJ Purim Ball was last night. Theme was bodies. This piece performed was an excerpt from My Wife’s Ass, Glenn Marla and Hana Malia’s really incredible, moving and important theatrical work. (Here they are headless fatties reenacting the anti-obesity fat shaming campaign in the NYC subways right now.) Learn more about My Wife’s Ass and like them on Facebook!

JFREJ Purim Ball was last night. Theme was bodies. This piece performed was an excerpt from My Wife’s Ass, Glenn Marla and Hana Malia’s really incredible, moving and important theatrical work. (Here they are headless fatties reenacting the anti-obesity fat shaming campaign in the NYC subways right now.) Learn more about My Wife’s Ass and like them on Facebook!

03.04.12 ♥ 8
Zoom The Stand 4 Kids campaign now has it’s own tumblr!

The Stand 4 Kids campaign now has it’s own tumblr!

01.23.12 ♥ 77
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Write a love letter to your body, win a free pin-up photo shoot

Entries are due on Monday. Also, I have had a shoot with Sophie and it is incredible.

12.03.11 ♥ 4

OMG I just got home from a photo shoot and my English as a second language speaking landlord said “You have such a pretty face. You should move [moves his arms back and forth]…” and I try to cut him off and explain health at every size, body love and body autonomy. As he keeps talking “Eat small meals, no soda.” WOW. Awkward. Inappropriate. So hard to deal with. Can’t we just have small talk about my dog? I basically ended it by saying “I’ve been fat for 32 years in a dieting culture, if it was going to work it would have by now. I choose to be happy and pretty.”

10.19.11 ♥ 14
fat girls in your bed/fat girls on your arm

I guest answered for AfroTitty

afrotitty:

*Note from Afrotitty: I got this question a couple days ago and my brain has been a little occupied with navigating the new addition to my personal pronoun roster, so I decided to pass it on my fat comrade, Bevin QueerFatFemme.com who is also an expert on getting fat girls into your…

10.15.11 ♥ 21
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Zoom Love this double chin acceptance story! doublechinlove: “I spent a really long time trying to train myself to do the “chin poke” any time there was a camera around.  I hated my chins.  HATED.  Then last year I went to a friend’s wedding and got really drunk and danced and had a great time and forgot to do my chin-hiding maneuver.   I realised that my chins are kind of like a barometer of how happy I am.   The happier I am, the more of them come out to party.  By trying to hide my chins I was also trying to hide that I am fabulous and fun-loving and love to dance and laugh and have a good time.  I was too busy trying to be that sedate fat chick who only has one chin and is afraid if she dances her jiggly fat will clear the dance floor. Well, fuck that noise, my friends.  In this picture I’m laughing, dancing, and having a good time celebrating the wedding of a good friend.  Far from clearing the dance floor, my chins (and all the rest of me!) hauled people out to dance and made an epic conga line.  The essence of me shines through in this picture and I am beautiful and fabulous and a hell of a lot of fun.”submitted by: www.lux-obscura.tumblr.com

Love this double chin acceptance story!

doublechinlove:

“I spent a really long time trying to train myself to do the “chin poke” any time there was a camera around.  I hated my chins.  HATED.  Then last year I went to a friend’s wedding and got really drunk and danced and had a great time and forgot to do my chin-hiding maneuver.  

I realised that my chins are kind of like a barometer of how happy I am.   The happier I am, the more of them come out to party.  By trying to hide my chins I was also trying to hide that I am fabulous and fun-loving and love to dance and laugh and have a good time.  I was too busy trying to be that sedate fat chick who only has one chin and is afraid if she dances her jiggly fat will clear the dance floor.

Well, fuck that noise, my friends. 

In this picture I’m laughing, dancing, and having a good time celebrating the wedding of a good friend.  Far from clearing the dance floor, my chins (and all the rest of me!) hauled people out to dance and made an epic conga line.  The essence of me shines through in this picture and I am beautiful and fabulous and a hell of a lot of fun.”

submitted by: www.lux-obscura.tumblr.com

08.17.11 ♥ 158
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