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The History of Body Positivity: Mirror Mirror Podcast

July 15, 2021

In this episode, Marie leads the discussion on the history of the body positivity movement, which started as the fat liberation movement in the 1960s. Marie and Mia discuss how the history of body positivity has been whitewashed — as it has left people of colour out of the discussion — and they give credit to some notable black female activists who had an impact on the fat liberation and body positivity movements.

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(Afful & Ricciardelli, 2015; BBC, n.d.; Cherry, 2020; Cooper, 2008; Crosby, 2020; Dominici, 2020; Fishman, 1998; Frazier & Mehdi, 2021; Jennings, 2018; Kessel, 2018; Kite & Kite, 2020; Martin, 2017; Miller, 2020; NAAFA Official, 2020; Osborn, 2021; Preston, 2021; Purkiss, 2017; Taylor, 2021; Ulmer, 2019; Yeboah, 2020)

References

  1. Afful, A. A., & Ricciardelli, R. (2015). Shaping the online fat acceptance movement: Talking about body image and beauty standards. Journal of Gender Studies, 24(4), 453–472. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2015.1028523
  2. BBC. (n.d.). From New York to Instagram: The history of the body positivity movement. BBC. Retrieved June 16, 2021, from https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z2w7dp3
  3. Cherry, K. (2020, November 21). What is body positivity? VeryWellMind. https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-body-positivity-4773402#:~:text=The%20National%20Association%20to%20Advance,founded%20the%20website%20thebodypositive.org
  4. Cooper, C. (2008). What is fat activism? [University of Limerick]. https://ulir.ul.ie/bitstream/handle/10344/3628/Cooper_2008_fat.pdf?sequence=2
  5. Crosby, E. (2020, June 13). The history of body positivity. Emilydiscovers: UK Plus Size Blogger. https://emilydiscovers.com/2020/06/13/the-history-of-body-positivity/
  6. Dominici, B. (2020, August 21). The black history of the body positivity movement. Zenerations. https://zenerations.org/2020/08/21/the-black-history-of-the-body-positive-movement/
  7. Fishman, S. G. B. (1998). Life in the fat underground. Radiance. http://www.radiancemagazine.com/issues/1998/winter_98/fat_underground.html
  8. Frazier, C., & Mehdi, N. (2021). Forgetting fatness: The violent co-optation of the body positivity movement. Debates in Aesthetics, 16(1), 13–28. http://debatesinaesthetics.org/debates-in-aesthetics-vol-16-no-1/
  9. Jennings, D. (2018, September 18). Black women started the body positivity movement, but white women corrupted it. HelloBeautiful. https://hellobeautiful.com/3009432/black-women-body-positivity-movement/
  10. Kessel, A. (2018, July 23). The rise of the body neutrality movement: ‘If you’re fat, you don’t have to hate yourself.’ The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/23/the-rise-of-the-body-neutrality-movement-if-youre-fat-you-dont-have-to-hate-yourself
  11. Kite, L., & Kite, L. (2020). More Than a Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament. HMH Books.
  12. Martin, R. (2017, May 1). Gabourey Sidibe’s message to the world: “Mind your own body.” NPR50. https://www.npr.org/2017/05/01/526057360/gabourey-sidibes-message-to-the-world-mind-your-own-body
  13. Miller, K. (2020, June 21). How whiteness killed the body positive movement. Elemental. https://elemental.medium.com/how-whiteness-killed-the-body-positive-movement-4c185773101e
  14. NAAFA Official. (2020, June 16). NAAFA webinar: Revisiting the fat flash mob with Juicy D. Light . [Video]. YouTube. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJqJMIstsSY&ab_channel=NAAFAOfficial
  15. Osborn, T. (2021, March 9). Black women and femmes in NAAFA’s history. NAAFA. https://naafa.org/community-voices/black-women-and-femmes
  16. Preston, A. M. (2021, January 8). The body positivity community can be toxic too, we just don’t talk about it. BAAZAR. https://www.harpersbazaar.com/beauty/health/a35162869/body-positivity-community-and-weight-loss/
  17. Purkiss, A. (2017, April 1). (Re)examining fat stigma through black women’s history. Food, Fatness, and Fitness: Critical Perspectives. http://foodfatnessfitness.com/2017/04/01/reexamining-fat-stigma-black-womens-history/
  18. Taylor, S. R. (2021). The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
  19. Ulmer, K. (2019, March 19). The history of the body positivity movement (fat activism). The Petite Pear Project. https://www.thepetitepearproject.com/blog/2019/3/12/what-is-body-positivity
  20. Yeboah, S. (2020, August 23). Stephanie Yeboah: ‘How I learned to stop using my body as a punch bag.’ The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/aug/23/stephanie-yeboah-plus-size-influencer-how-i-learned-to-stop-using-my-body-as-a-punch-bag
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