#and I say that as someone w a history of eating disorder behaviors & body image issues!!

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I just wanna add some other fat activists/fat voices I’ve been reading and following bc I really like their work and have learned a lot from them! their content ranges from straight-up fat lib/fat activism and dismantling everyday, academic, medical, and cultural fatphobia to fat-positive fashion, writing, art, photography, modeling, comedy, lifestyle, travel, fitness/outdoor recreation, queerness … truly a multitude of foci!

I’ve also included links to a few of their patreons, which I subscribe to and are 100% worth your money (and have low sub tiers for financial accessibility!):

Marquisele Mercedes @marquisele / patreon.com/marquisele

Monica/Fatty, MPH @FattyMPH

Ragen Chastain @danceswithfat

Stacy Bias @stacybias

Substantia Jones @adipositivity

She’s All Fat @shesallfat

Fatventure Mag @fatventuremag

Ash / Fat Lip Podcast @fatlippodcast

Corissa Enneking @fatgirlflow / @fatgirlfreedom

J Aprileo @comfyfat / @comfyfattravels

Q @qthefatmyth

Angelina @fiercefatfemme (and their list of fat liberation resources!!)

Maggie McGill @maggiemcgill

Julie Murphy @ANDimJULIE

Bruce Owens Grimm @bowensgrimm / patreon.com/bruceowensgrimm

Tommy @tommyinboots / patreon.com/tommywearsboots

Ali Thompson @ok2befat

Shooglet @shooglet

Angie Manifredi @misskubelik / @misskubelik

Miguel M. Morales @trustmiguel

Sofie Hagen @sofiehagen

Nicole Byer @nicolebyer

Courtney Shove @fat_girl_has_moxi

Fat Girls Hiking @fatgirlshiking

Fat Futures Collective @fatfuturescollective

Katie @queerfatkatie (esp for intersection w eating disorders!)

Haye @thegenderlessalien

Vast Magazine @vast.press

Fat and Queer @fatandqueer

Fat Outta Hell podcast @fatouttahell

like, the info is there, it’s not hard to find!! and diversifying your social media feeds with fat voices is a big step forward in integrating fat lib and fat positivity into your daily media consumption and your worldview.

(and also! a great way to see if an account is a good, trustworthy one to follow is to check if other big voices in fat activism follow them. it’s tricky but I always make sure I recognize a couple of followers as other people involved in fat lib to ensure that this is a good account to follow.)

I've been looking at the recent discussion and I have to ask - is it possible to be thin and be into feedism in an ethical way? Especially if you're not comfortable engaging with radical politics like fat liberation for your own mental health? Because honestly, it just seems like as thin people, it's impossible for us to engage with this kink (at least beyond just fantasising in private) and not hurt fat people and perpetuate fatphobia in some way. And at that point it seems like it'd be better to just disengage from the kink entirely and make sure it's a fat people only space.

What? Literally all you have to do is care about fat people.

To be an ethical feedist or FA, educate yourself on systemic anti-fatness! I’m not asking you to get into heavy political debates, just to learn. Work on your own biases. It doesn’t take much to open a book. Or even just follow fat educators on social media! LISTEN to fat people you know!

Here, I even included a whole big list of people to learn from!

Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend

Hannah Fulhendorf MA LPCC @hannatalksbodies

Sonalee Rashatwar LSCW MEd @thefatsextherapist

Dr. Lindo Bacon @lindobacon

@bigfatscience

@fatliberation

Caleb Luna @chairbreaker

Da’Shaun L. Harrison @dashaunlh

Tracy Cox @sparklejams

Virgie Tovar @virgietovar

Jordan Underwood @jordallenhall

Saucyé West @saucyewest

Here’s even more information I compiled, with book recommendations!

All of this information is at your fingertips. If you don’t engage with fat liberationist ideas, you’ll be complicit in their oppression. Not just in feedism spaces - but everywhere. Support fat people. If that’s not something you believe you can do, then sure, maybe it would be better to disengage from feedism! and every fat person you meet! There’s nothing inherently unethical about being a thin feedist - it’s how we perpetuate the anti-fat bias we’ve been taught. Sorry if I’m being harsh, but I’m not buying it. You can do this.