FAT LIBERATION
What is Fat Liberation?
Fat Liberation is a social justice movement rooted in the fact that all people deserve access to care, ethical treatment, and kindness regardless of their size, health, or physical ability. Fat Liberation seeks to dismantle the diet culture paradigm to shift into a community care centered approach to living. Through community care, there is a possibility for collective liberation. Fat Liberation was developed by black, queer, and feminist organizers and seeks to fight anti-fat bias to this day. Fat Liberation does not require one to love nor accept their body to be worthy of care, and believes that all people deserve to have governance over their own bodies.
Fat History Moment…
In 1973 the Fat Underground published the Fat Liberation Manifesto ->
Check out The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance for more fat liberation history and their work for the movement today.
Want to dig in deeper?
Check out our Body Liberation Reading List
**Please note: While this list is featured in Amazon, please feel free to shop at your local bookstore, or directly from the authors’ sites. We support however you want to purchase these items!
Fat Folks To Know & Support
Please remember: if you’re learning from these folks, pay them for their labor. This is how we practice community care.
Jervae they/she
Activist, Healer, Artist
@jervae
Sonya Renee Taylor she/her/we
Writer, Activist, Artist, Speaker
@sonyareneetaylor
Imani Barbarin she/her/hers
Writer, Speaker
@crutches_and_spice
Sonalee Rashatwar they/he
Social worker, Sex therapist, Organizer
@thefatsextherapist
Da’Shaun L Harrison they/them
Abolitionist, Writer, Artist
@dashaunlh
Vanessa Rochelle Lewis she/her
Writer, Educator, Healer
@black.woman.blooming