For a long time, I have had an Instagram account dedicated exclusively to HAES, Intiutive Eating, Body Positivity, and Fat Activism. Every time I see a post that affects me in some way, or expresses a thought I never want to lose track of, or says something profound that I think my wife needs to hear, I bookmark it. Today, I decided to share a smattering of those posts. Please subscribe to anyone and everyone you see below. Their presence will make your life so much better.
Research shows us that we normalize to the bodies that we see around us. Beauty standards are built by repetition and insistence that thin is the only “right” way to be. So one of the most powerful things for me has been to just to fill my world with people of a much broader spectrum of body shapes and sizes. Collectively, these people have the audacity to show off a variety of body types doing all the normal shit that every other Instagrammer is doing every day. So yeah, there’s a lot of skin showing. Just being themselves is a powerful rebellion, and that’s what’s so powerful about it. I hope you participate in it.