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Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen on August 18, 2008 - 12:44pm; tagged body positivity, eating disorders, fat acceptance, fat activism, glossy magazines, offensive advertising, women's magazines.

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"Basically, I just want people to see what it would be like if plus-size models were represented similarly to slim models." -- Kristin Lou Herout. 

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Big Trouble

Big Trouble
Article by Lily-Rygh Glen, Illustrated by Mia Nolting, appeared in issue Lost & Found; published in 2008; filed under Social commentary; tagged body image, eating disorders, fat acceptance, fat phobia.
Are eating disorders the Lavender Menace of the fat acceptance movement?
Lost & Found

BeckyAll names have been changed. has been active in the fat acceptance movement for a good half-dozen years. She attends and organizes awareness-raising events, takes part in her local fat social scene, and fights to end discrimination against fat people with a powerful combination of weary sadness and righteous anger. She wears her weight like well-adorned armor, betraying no sense of regret or shame in her 480-pound body.

Becky also has an eating disorder.

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