One of the most powerful things that I do to reinforce my personal body love journey is to seek out positive representations of fat bodies. I live in a culture that barrages me with negative images of, and messages about, fat bodies. It’s important to me that I counteract that.
I was thinking about it today because the Adipositivity Project Annual Calendar is out [link NSFW unless your work is really cool), and, as always, it is awesome! I was lucky enough to be an Adiposer for the awesome Substantia Jones’ fabulous fat positive project [NSFW] and it was an amazing experience..
One of my pictures for the adipositivity project. I did the splits on Wall Street while business people stared at me and ate their sandwiches. http://www.adipositivity.com
Hanging out with Substantia Jones in NYC #curlygirls
It inspired me to take pictures of some of the positive representations of fat bodies that we keep around the house…
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- My Best Friend, Kelrick, got this for me at a little shop in his apartment in Astoria
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- Also from Kelrick
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- Plaque from http://voluptuart.com/
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- Julianne got these fabulous flying fat figurines at the Big Fat Flea Market
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- This was in the window of a thrift shop that I passed on all of the training runs for my first marathon. I told Julianne about it and she got it for me.
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- I got this at http://voluptuart.com/
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- Kelrick painted this beautiful piece and then gifted it to me.
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- Magnet from http://voluptuart.com/
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- This was a gift from the amazing Ronda Wood
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- Great sculpture from http://voluptuart.com/
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- Julianne got this lovely fat ballerina for me
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- Another magnet from http://voluptuart.com/
I was also reminded of these soft sculptures by Yulia Ustinova on Facebook today (and thus reminded that I desperately want one!)
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- https://www.facebook.com/yulia.ustinova.3
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- https://www.facebook.com/yulia.ustinova.3
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- https://www.facebook.com/yulia.ustinova.3
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- https://www.facebook.com/yulia.ustinova.3
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- https://www.facebook.com/yulia.ustinova.3
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- https://www.facebook.com/yulia.ustinova.3
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- https://www.facebook.com/yulia.ustinova.3
What are some of your favorite representations of fat bodies? Please feel free to leave links to them in the the comments!
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