The Feed

I'm just going to say it. Fat Acceptance can't fix anything. I've been following it now for 20 years, and I started watching it in the infancy of the modern movement as I had a freshly earned anthropology degree. And Harvard, we need to talk about your most visible influencer graduate. Because you're not exactly promoting yourself as a great education with her content. See, Samyra (she seems to be a single-named celebrity, like Madonna or Cher) is probably the most prominent

I'm writing this as someone who came to the movement as a "genetically fat" woman in her late 20's with undiagnosed fibromyalgia, central sensitization syndrome, and joint hypermobility, just as the movement was starting in the wake of the 2000's super low rise trend. I mention my disabilities because that was part of it, originally. A little history: in the 80's, 90's and 2000's, the prevailing message towards women was that you need to strive for perfection. They'd call it