WHAT WE'RE ABOUT

RBI focuses on using expressive writing, design-oriented work, photography, media, research, and community input to fuel fat positive, body acceptance, discussion, and outreach. Our goal is to redefine the way we view and think about body image, size, fat, discrimination, health, fitness, wellness, mental/chronic illness, stigma, and other related topics.

We are constantly redefining our own perspectives, and therefore tend to write a lot about our personal experiences. Many followers and contributors are living with anorexia, bulimia, body dysmorphic disorder, depression, and a variety of other body image disorders or mental illnesses, so please be respectful and remember that health applies differently to everyone. Any and all potentially triggering content will be prefaced with a trigger warning.

RBI supports all races, genders, classes, and sizes. We try our best to make this a safe space for everyone. If we are not doing our job or checking our privilege, we invite you to please inform us.

Some of the artwork you see here has been created by our founder or moderators, some sourced when applicable. Please be kind enough to source this blog whenever you share it's content.

We are not health professionals. Any and all advice provided on this blog is supported only by our own research, studies, and personal experiences; nothing more.

This blog is part of the Safe Space Network.

RBI just broke through 2000 followers and I can help but look back on how far I’ve come with this place.

Since I started this blog in December 2010, I can’t believe how much things have changed and how many supportive, brilliant people have been involved in what I set out to do - communicating and sharing experiences with our bodies. It has helped me a lot in figuring out who I am as a designer, a body positive activist, a fat female, and a writer.

Once I get the opportunity to really focus on making changes around here, I plan to get more organized in my involvement and actually complete the projects I set out to do. It’s time to make more realistic goals and take smaller steps. As much as I’d love to make running this blog a full time job, that is sort of not going to happen right now. I am excited to see what the future holds.

So if you’re a new follower - hello, welcome, and I love you already! And to those who have been around from the beginning, you are my rocks, my support, and I appreciate you so very much.

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