I extended the deadline to forever, basically.
Check out the guidelines here.
You could be selected for my digital installation or a poster series I want to do this summer. If you’re submitting for the digital installation, make sure the photo is a straight, full-body shot with your arms somewhere at your sides.
And thanks! <3
Of course! To me, it’s only natural. I’ve experienced enough to know that EVERYONE has body issues. To me, the Fat Acceptance movement would be better represented under the name Size Acceptance in some instances.
The “real women have curves” issue is something that I feel has finally started to recede among those in the body-positivity community because we are quick to educate and set the record straight. I think when fat women first find their voice and their power, it was easy to default to saying such things.
I myself, in my youth and ignorance, have said things like “real women have curves” and “that skinny chick needs to eat a few cheeseburgers” - But for a young woman who felt her curves were a curse and that skinny women were out to get her, at the time - These words were empowering. One person took the liberty to explain to me why this frame of mind was negative and I was absolutely horrified with myself - But I was still learning. I have taken all that in and am now doing my best to pass it along.
Just as skinniness is often genetic and cannot be changed by will, so is fatness. Just as it seems acceptable to demean skinny women in visual culture, the same applies to fat women.
What I am trying to represent in this blog is that we ALL face the same bullshit regardless of size or gender. There is not a war to be won between the fatties and the skinnies - There is an alliance that needs to be formed.
Yep, I’ll work with whatchu got. <3
yes! submission deadline is currently indefinite - i am basically hoping to procure a collection of various body sizes and shapes for future projects as well as this current one.
Thanks so much!
Yes, I will eventually be doing a series of posters or something of that sort. Not all of your narratives will be featured, but I will let you know if/when I am working on yours as I will probably need some feedback. But that won’t be until next week or so, right now the designing is on hold until I get all the interactive elements straight.
i can’t make you do anything, i can only show you and let you decide.
much <3
Hey, you can still submit! I’ll adjust the submission guidelines post so there’s no confusion.
:D
Thank you.
Yeah, body liberation!
I say we all stop wearing pants.
<3 Thank you for being awesome.
via marythedaring
This project has not been just about creating one final interactive installation for my thesis project. It has been about learning how to utilize online user experiences, to create chain reactions, to combat visual culture through a thoroughly wonderful grassroots community of people. Through experiencing discussion, new perspectives, conversation, revelations. Experiencing love and confidence in being alive and human.
I posted a design to my blog not too long ago. It was my body, sectioned off into pieces. Each section revealed a narrative about myself, my body, my experience, my perspective.
I just realized that design now has nearly 900 notes and comments. It has been reblogged and passed around. Some of my readers have asked to spread my message further by printing off posters to hang around their home town. That makes me so happy.
And that was just one design. One side. My side.
I hope that the installation I am designing will authentically represent other stories as well as my own, but this blog will be endless. And the power of voice through design and storytelling is limitless.
I want to represent everyone. I want to tell your story.
I can only select a few of your submissions for this project, but will keep all you bathing-suit clad darlings saved for other projects in Redefining Body Image’s future.
Been feeling a lot of love from you all. It helps a ton when I’m as stressed as I am.
So thank you and much love to all.
I am very, very happy about that. <3
Well, I hope my reply helped you understand where I was coming from.
Those ads were not meant to be taken seriously. I did not design them, I don’t represent them. I just enjoy documenting how body image, feminine hygiene and weight loss has been represented in visual culture over the years. By putting it out there, I am simply trying to encourage that we stay knowledgeable about visual culture’s past, present and future. I am not sticking my opinion on it or discouraging anyone from doing anything. I’m just saying “Hey, this existed at one point in time. Isn’t it funny? Let’s think about that and add it to our mind banks and think about the ludicrous power of advertising’s ability to be utter nonsense.”
My goal is to encompass ALL perspectives, look at body image from different time periods as well as what it means today. I’d say that means I am “everything positive” - Especially when most, if not all my post encourage body love of ALL sizes.
Your face will likely be blurred or obscured in the final design. :)
Nope! The more diverse, the better.
This guy was murdered and mutilated and stuffed into a fucking duffle bag and they’ve managed to just.. I don’t even know the word, be total fuckers about it by having to drag his weight into it. “400-lb” man, “A friend said she recently ran into the man, who claimed he was trying to exercise and eat healthier to lose weight.”
He was mutilated and rotting, stuffed in a duffle bag — but fyi, he was trying to lose weight.
I quit.
Actually I don’t really, but what the ever loving fuck?
There is a new employee at my job who has made two major remarks that have revealed so much about her. I went into work wearing a loud print dress synched at the waist with a thin belt. For most people this should not be a big deal, however, being a fat girl I guess that’s enough to make…
“Health at every size”, they said to us. “You’re stunning”, they said to us. I read the articles, I followed the blogs, I immersed myself in furthering my acceptance of you. We formed a bond, you and I, and in time our relationship healed.
The submissions are rolling in and I’m so grateful to everyone’s enthusiasm!
Much, much love and overuse of <3’s
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Yes of course, I want to represent all bodies and genders in my project.
The sooner you submit, the better my work will be. I have just over a month left to complete it and it’s getting quite intense.
Yes yes yes! So far the submissions I’ve gotten did not follow the rules. :(
Okay guys, I keep getting submissions that I can’t use! While your bodies are perfect and I love that you’re contributing, I will not be able to use the photos unless they adhere to these guidelines.
I apologize if I’ve been unclear in any way. I don’t want anyone wasting their time submitting if I can’t do anything with the photos!
Oh, that’s absolutely lovely! I was planning on making a number of these to be used just for that purpose - Spreading the word. I just need more submissions to create more narratives about more body types!
I will make a post to a high-quality image of the poster for you (and anyone else wanting to spread the word) to print and stick up where ever you please.
<3
YES! Thin, fat, chunky, chubby, curvy, deathfat, inbetweenie, however you categorize your body or your body has been categorized in society…I don’t care. Submit away! Just please make sure you follow the guidelines, get your full body in the shot and send your e-mail or a way I can contact you to ask you some questions.
<3!
axegrinderpiledriver reblogged your photo: Interested in contributing to my design project? …
Reblogging because NOW I WANT CINNAMON BUNS. DAMMIT.
Hahaha, everyone has been saying this!
Alright, I’ll admit it. My plan to help redefine body image is to subliminally encourage all my followers to eat many, many cinnamon buns.
Om nom nom.
You and me both, girl.
<3