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“Fat Acceptance as Social Justice” by Deborah McPhail, PhD and Michael Orsini, PhD https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8443289/

“Fat Liberation Self-Study Guide” from the Washington University in St. Louis https://students.wustl.edu/fat-liberation-self-study-guide/

“The Economics of Thinness” by. The Economist

“Fat, Happy, and Healed: A Movement Toward Fat Liberation” by Jackie Malloy https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/11/21/1211800206/celebrating-bodies-at-philly-fatcon

“What Fat Liberation Means to Me: It’s Not Just About “All Bodies”” by Lindley Ashline https://naafa.org/community-voices/fat-lib-means

“The Rebellious History of the Fat Acceptance Movement” by Linda Gerhardt https://centerfordiscovery.com/blog/fat-acceptance-movement/

“My Fat Liberation is Not a Trend” by Natalie Craig https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a46413899/fat-liberation-trend/

“Fat Liberation: How Social Workers Can Incorporate Fat Activism to Promote Care and Justice” by Brianna L. Sorensen https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08861099231183672

“Fat Acceptance” in Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/fat-acceptance

“Here’s What Fat Acceptance Is - and Isn’t” by Evette Dione https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2019/06/24/fat-acceptance-movement

“Fat Bias Starts Early and Takes a Serious Toll” by Jane E. Brody https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/well/live/fat-bias-starts-early-and-takes-a-serious-toll.html

“7 Ways to Uproot Your Anti-Fat Bias” by Your Fat Friend https://humanparts.medium.com/7-ways-to-uproot-your-anti-fat-bias-54f01d76ec3b

“Are You Really Body Positive?” by Ogechukwu C. Ogbogu https://www.thecrimson.com/column/a-black-girls-thoughts/article/2021/3/18/ogbogu-body-positivity/

“How to Shift from ‘Body Positivity’ to ‘Body Neutrality’ - and Why You Should” by Crystal Raypole https://www.thecrimson.com/column/a-black-girls-thoughts/article/2021/3/18/ogbogu-body-positivity/

“What is Fat Acceptance?” by Nadra Nittle https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-fat-acceptance-5186913

“We Have to Stop Thinking of Being ‘Healthy’ as Being Morally Better” by Aubrey Gordon https://www.self.com/story/healthism

“Health is a Privilege, Not a Virtue” by Emma Green https://tenderly.medium.com/healthism-in-veganism-its-time-to-call-it-out-174903d477da

“Breaking Down the ‘Wellness-Industrial Complex,’ an Episode at a Time” by Victoria Peterson https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/dining/wellness-industrial-complex-maintenance-phase.html

Samantha SponerFebruary 29, 2024

Fat acceptance resources

Becoming informed does not have to mean something as arduous as going back to school and it certainly does not mean depending on your well-informed friends to give you all your knowledge by word of mouth. Instead, consider the option of occasionally reading a book or article, watching a video, or following a creator that knows what they’re talking about. This list is to give you exactly that: resources you can pick and choose to engage with. This list of research is specifically related to the fat experience in society, the harm of the anti-fat movement, and the roots of fatphobia/anti-fatness. I encourage everyone, regardless of opinion, to become well informed in this arena especially the era of click bait and mountains of propaganda generated by the wellness and fitness industries. There are many experts in this field who do incredible research and there are also many more individuals with valuable lived experience, and I only wish to amplify these voices.