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During #fatliberationmonth, NAAFA invited Anna Chapman (@iamannachapman) as a guest on the NAAFA Webinar Series. During Anna’s episode, Self Care for Fat Bodies (From Practical to Pampering), we promised to create a blog post compiling the resources, suggestions, and information crowd-sourced from Anna and webinar participants. This is that post!
Read MoreThis a Fat History Flashback that explores the events surrounding an issue that effected fat community. It is a feature of Fat Liberation Month and is created by NAAFA.
Read MoreLatinx Heritage Month runs from September 15 through October 15 and it’s a time of celebration for Americans to honor the histories, cultures, and contributions of US residents whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America. As it has in the past, this month NAAFA will shine a spotlight on some Latinx folks who have been working in Fat Liberation.
Read MoreOver the last few years, we hope that you’ve noticed more and more from the NAAFA Board about taking an intersectional approach to our work as a fat rights organization. The term intersectionality was coined by law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw over 30 years ago. She used it to talk about the ways systems of oppression intersect and overlap. While legal scholars were the main ones using the term for many years, it’s gained in mainstream usage over the last decade. It has also been expanded to incorporate types of oppression not as widely discussed in the legal situations being analyzed when it was originally used. Fat community has adopted the term to talk about how size discrimination impacts people differently based on the ways other kinds of discrimination also do or do not impact us. We also use it to urge examination of the oft-spoken myth that anti-fatness is the “last acceptable prejudice.”
Read MoreNAAFA Founder, Bill Fabrey, and NAAFA Community Outreach Director, Tigress Osborn, will engage in a lively dialogue about how the fat acceptance movement has changed since the organization was founded in 1969.
Read MoreWhile many of us traditionally celebrate Thanksgiving with friends and family, we need to be aware of the true meaning of the first Thanksgiving. Our current understanding of the holiday changes history, which celebrated attempts to eliminate the people that inhabited the land white Europeans invaded and stole. With this posting, we are sharing resources that share the history of the real Thanksgiving celebration, how it affects indigenous people and where you can go to support them.
Read MoreNAAFA welcomes author, podcaster and activist Dr. Joy Cox! Dr. Cox will be conversing with NAAFA Board Chair Elect and Community Outreach Director, Tigress Osborn, about her new book, Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own, and much more!
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