Adipositivity
I just wanted to post this great project here (because some of the blogs prompted me to think about it again).
It's The Adipositivity Project and there are some pretty amazing photos there that have the goal of promoting size acceptance through these photos (making larger women SEEN, which is not done very often in our society).
"Fundamentally the markswoman aims at herself" DT Suzuki
- Strange Quark's blog
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that site is awesome, and i'm sending it to everyone in my email address book right now!
"if i pass for other than what i am, do you feel safer?" ~ lani ka'ahumanu
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"if i pass for other than what i am, do you feel safer?" ~ lani ka'ahumanu
dragon knows dragon
Got it! Love it!
Probably not a good idea to open this at work, just so folks are aware...but I LOVE this project. Pretty cool.
24/MN. Queer, veg, single, AP mama to DD1.5
25/MN and WA. Queer, veg, single, AP mama to DD2.5.
those pictures are fantastic!
for me, when i first started looking at them there was something very shocking about them. instinctively, it felt like i was looking at something almost obscene....because, honestly, larger women ARE pretty much invisible in mainstream media. they're treated as an obscenity. it's very cool to see these women themselves as the actual subject of the photos, not their obesity as is usually the (fucked up) case. like, the only time we're really "allowed" to see larger women in the media it's on a talk show where we're seeing footage of their gastric bypass surgery, or on reality shows like "the biggest loser", which are basically exploitative, when you really break them down.
thanks for sharing this link, this project is great.
Oh, yeah. The book Fat!So? clued me in to the fact that most of the time, fat folks are photographed headless, just from about knees to shoulders, completely objectifying them--or, more specifically, their fat. I really appreciated the explanation on the Adipositivity Project about why they kinda reclaimed that practice, both to let these subjects have some anonymity and protection, and to let the viewer relate it back to the fat folks that they know and start to overcome their fat-phobia.
I think I need to make that site part of some kind of regular body image meditation for me. Some of the pictures I was really struck by as beautiful, and some I was like "ugh, that's what I see in the mirror, gross." I knew I had some mirror work to do to make peace with my body, but I hadn't had the opportunity to have my thoughts on the issue so blatantly splashed across a screen. Usually, I react negatively to photos of fat folks because they're horrible, objectifying photos, but these give me a chance to say "look, they're beautiful, and so am I."
24/MN. Queer, veg, single, AP mama to DD1.5
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