[Content Note: Discussion of fat hatred, diet industry, body policing. Photos at links may be NSFW.]
If you're not familiar with the Adipositivity project, you need to check it out, because it is amazing. It's a now 8-year-old photography project by Substantia Jones which "aims to promote the acceptance of benign human size variation and encourage discussion of body politics, not by listing the merits of big people, or detailing examples of excellence (these things are easily seen all around us), but rather through a visual display of fat physicality. The sort that's normally unseen."
And then you need to read this great interview with Substantia about the project, and its objectives, and the people who participate in it.
I am so grateful for this project, which has meant a lot to me for many years. And I am so indebted to Substantia Jones, who has had such a positive influence on me and countless other people.
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