Are there any obese socialites? Asking this seriously. https://twitter.com/default_friend/status/1345954151382065152

What are the demographics of fat+, which brands promote it the most, and when did it start?

Interesting how the modern world takes once effective rhetorical devices and punk attitudes, takes them too literally, then sells us shit off the backs of it.

Fat acceptance is punk as fuck in the face of a billion dollar diet industry, I gotta say.

Okay, so I'm researching this and compelling stuff - Fat Power, the book on the left, makes *a lot* of sense when paired with the diet advice on the right.

Just gonna drop this here, for your consideration.

Little did these 1970s babes know the turns this movement this would take....

"The Fat Liberation Manifesto"
November, 1973

1978, Fat Acceptance really starts to pick up steam. From the New York Times.

Just eyeballing this stuff but seeing a lot of names like:
- Fat Liberation Front
- Fat Underground

They're extremists from the jump.

Just bookmarking this idea: radical fat acceptance zines in the 90s vs. the dawn of the pro-ana movement

Why do activists think medicalization is at odds with compassion, acceptance, and respect - interpersonally or legally?

I'll stop spamming you guys but I have more questions than answers at this point.

I mean, I think we know this but the more I read about this the more I'm convinced that people are just running out of lifestyles to sell and may as well be thumbing through Wikipedia pointing at obscure labels and digging in. But there's gotta be more to this, right?