In juni 2016 solliciteerde een man voor een job bij een rijschool. Na een 1e gesprek kreeg hij deze feedback:⁠
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"Jammer genoeg past uw fysiek profiel niet bij de functie van rij-instructeur in mijn onderneming. Hebt u er al eens aan gedacht om gewicht te verliezen?"⁠
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De man ging daarop naar de arbeidsrechtbank op basis discriminatie van gewicht en kreeg gelijk: de rijschool moest een schadevergoeding betalen van 6 maanden loon.⁠
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⁠#weetje #dikactivisme #FatLiberation #FatActivism

Seizing fat joy for ourselves is an act of resistance.

More on fatness and resistance: bit.ly/bodyliberationguide

#FatLiberation #BodyLiberation

I'll be talking more about that last thing in next week's newsletter, which you can find at the usual location. In the meantime, I'm mostly around on discord these days and posting publicly as I have energy.

#SupportSmallBusiness #MentalHealth #FatLiberation #Rest

In het mensenrechtenbeleid van de stad Reykjavik is 'lichaamsbouw en -type' specifiek opgenomen als aparte categorie, wat o.a. betekent dat het verboden is om mensen te discrimineren op basis van hun gewicht.

#weetje #dikactivisme #FatLiberation #FatActivism

This week's fat joy is me at last week's Sequim Lavender Festival! It's one of the highlights of my year. We hit the festival at the fairgrounds, then go berry picking at one of the local farms that opens up for the weekend.

I was super cute in my Maya Kern/Serglesinner peony skirt and green top, too, but forgot to get a photo before I covered up the nice top to protect it and swapped the skirt out for leggings.

#FatJoyFriday #FatJoy #FatLiberation #FatAcceptance #Summer #BerryPicking #PNW

Fat joy can be loud and boisterous, or it can be quiet and peaceful.

We need every possible kind of joy -- not only because we deserve to experience joy, but because so much of our lives is constrained by systems and people who want us to shrink into tiny, sad, colorless existences.

Stretch towards a full-experience (pun joyfully intended) with me: bit.ly/bodyliberationguide

#FatJoyFriday #BodyPositive #FatLiberation

I was quoted on the Dallas Morning News about flying while fat! (content note for weight stigma)

https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/travel/2023/07/19/do-plus-size-passengers-deserve-a-bigger-seat-on-a-plane

#WeightStigma #Fatphobia #FatLiberation #FatRights

Eventjes nog voor wie denkt dat de term 'obesitas' vriendelijker of neutraler is dan het woord 'dik':

het woord ‘obesitas’ komt van het Latijnse ‘obesus’ wat ‘vet’ of ‘volgegeten’ betekent. Met andere woorden: je bent dik omdat je te veel gegeten hebt.

Dat is heel erg stigmatiserend en het is dus absoluut geen neutrale medische term.

#weetje #dikactivisme #FatActivism #FatLiberation

I guess I should post something eventually, so it might as well be this:

You are not “too” fat because, well… there’s no such a thing.

#fatLiberation #yay

🧠 Current learning edge interests:

#degrowth #solarpunk #fossilfueltreaty

#decolonizefitness #veganfitness #fatliberation #haes

#communitybuilding #decentralized #digitalequity

Pointers and finds welcome!

Happy No Diet Day!

I hope everybody is celebrating 🥳

#AntiDiet #FatLiberation #FatAcceptance

@fruitcake Yeah, I feel like there is not al lot of fat activism on here. Or at least I haven’t found a whole lot of people who talk about it.

There are some though, so I follow several hashtags to try and not miss any posts about it: #FatAcceptance #FatLiberation #FatActivism #AntiDiet

I hope our community will still grow on here!

I’m fat deal with it!

#fatliberation #feminine

Happy Saturday!

Existing in a fat body is beautiful!

I am unapologetically fat!!!!

#fatliberation #fat #feminine

Let’s talk about #DescriptiveLanguage:

FAT is a descriptive adjective & noun.

OVERWEIGHT includes a negative judgment. We don’t say “He’s OVERHEIGHT.”

OBESE is a medical term—and a pathologizing label. It has a history & its parameters have changed over time.

All of these words may be used or understood as epithets.

The terms #FatAcceptance, #Fatshion, #FatPolitics, #FatLiberation, etc. reclaim the word as neutral while highlighting that it’s not a neutral thing to be fat in this world.

Something I'm missing from Twitter is all the #FatLiberation and #FatAcceptance folks I used to follow. I'm searching on hashtags and trying to find people, but if you have a recommendation of someone to follow, let me know.

If you want to smash the #patriarchy but don't include fat people, you're not really smashing it. #feminism

If you want to be #AntiRacist, but don't include fat people, you're not really anti-racist.

If your all about #AntiFascism, but don't include fat people, you're not really anti-fascist.

Same applies to #DisabilityRights, #Environmentalism, #ChronicIllness, #NeuroDiversity and many more, because:

NoBODY is safe until everyBODY is safe.

#FatLiberation

According to antifatness, the goal of every fat person at all times must be to reduce and launder their fatness as much as possible for the consumption of thin people. Most if not all fat people in antifat cultures are implicitly if not explicitly aware of this. It effects how fat people think, feel, dress, move, speak, breathe, and how, when, where, why, and if they eat.

#antifatness #antifat #fatphobia #fatphobic #sizeism #fatliberation

Fat bellies are seen and treated as obscene in ways that flat bellies just simply aren't.

#antifatness #antifat #fatphobia #fatphobic #sizeism #belly #bellies #fat #fatness #fatliberation

Tonight I realized I don't miss having a thinner body *and also* I really miss the loads and loads and loads of social advantages being thinner gave me.

It's so gross to realize that the only reason I wish I wasn't fat now is because of how much better people treated me when I was much thinner. Most areas of my social life were a lot easier. (Some areas are still good/the same.)

#FatLiberation