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Sarah Thompson, founder of Resilient Fat Goddess, writes about body positivity, body liberation, and fat liberation at the intersections of gender, sexuality, and eating disorders. 

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Expressive Writing Prompts for Fatphobia and Weight Bias
Expressive Writing Prompts for Fatphobia and Weight Bias

The dominant culture in our society favors those who are thin and dehumanizes those who are fat. We are constantly reminded of this on a daily basis. There is an entire 150 billion-dollar industry worldwide that exists because of faphobia and weight stigma. Add in approximately $3 billion for stomach amputation or stomach alteration surgery otherwise known as weight loss surgery globally. There is no escaping that people are afraid of fatness. Fatphobia: Fear of fat, fat people, and/or fatness.

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Accountability, Body Freedom, Body Liberation, Body Positivity, Dieting, Fat Liberation, Fat Acceptance, Fatphobia, Sizeism, Weight BiasSJ ThompsonFatphobia, Weight Bias, Expressive Writing Prompts, Implicit Bias, Explicit Bias, Diet Industry, Weight Loss, Weight management, Weight, Weight Loss Surgery, Change, Writing Comments
What About Fat Voices? Our experience with fat invisibility - Part 3
What About Fat Voices? Our experience with fat invisibility - Part 3

In my graduate school classes, sizeism is mentioned once in the entire five years I’m a graduate student. Every single class is required to talk about marginalized identities and how whatever topic the class is focused on impacts those who are more marginalized or oppressed.  Fat people are never mentioned except in the one class one time. I know from my lived experience that fat people are oppressed and I began studying feminism and learning about the history of size oppression in college. Eating disorders are covered one day in my “abnormal psychology” class and never mentioned again. Even in my “psychology of women” class eating disorders were never mentioned and diet culture wasn’t talked about.

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Consulting, Eating Disorder Recovery, Eating Disorders, Fat Acceptance, Fatphobia, HAES Professionals, Health At Every Size®, Intuitive Eating, Medical Weight Stigma, Privilege, Recovery, Sizeism, Thin Privilege, Weight Stigma, Thin Shaming, Fat activismSJ ThompsonEating disorders, Eating disorder professionals, Health At Every Size, HAES, Therapists, Thin People, Thin Privilege, Thin shaming, Anorexia Nervosa, Fat, Fat Acceptance, Graduate school, Fat activist, Eating disorder treatment, Primary care doctor, Diet culture, Weight Stigma, Weight Loss, Obesity, Weight management Comments