In today’s contentious social climate, the fat acceptance movement emerges as a controversial force, challenging norms and ...

It was 2014 and I’d spent the last six months discovering body positivity and writing about the fat acceptance movement for my college newspaper and my budding fashion blog. Both were a revelation to ...

The movement first began as a product of the Fat Rights movement in America, starting with the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA), and the Fat Underground movements, respectively.

As the world gets fatter, we’re putting less effort into effectively preventing and treating obesity. The evidence of this horrifying correlation is everywhere. Over the weekend, Bill Maher took the ...

We've asked Tigress Osborn, the soon to be chair of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) in America, to explore the history of the movement for us. NAAFA is an organisation ...

The fat acceptance movement was created by Black and queer women to fight the discrimination and shame they faced due to their weight. Body positivity emerged from these roots.

It originated with the fat acceptance movement of the Sixties, which aimed to combat anti-fat discrimination and to celebrate and inspire the validity and acceptance of fat bodies. In the US ...

The body positivity movement began life as the Fat Acceptance movement in 1969, when fat, queer, Black women went about creating their own body positivity movement after mainstream fat activists ...

That three letter F-word used to be taboo, but there’s now a burgeoning ‘fat acceptance’ movement sweeping the world. The new emphasis has elevated the movement from its humble beginnings ...

suggests that the “fat acceptance” movement may finally be making some headway in Hollywood. “A screen full of actors with rolls of fat who aren’t there to be frowned-upon as freaks ...