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.

Q: you are... da bomb. so graceful in your responses!

Asked laughlikea

Haha thanks! It’s really not that hard to just be like, considerate, so it feels weird to me to be taking compliments for doing something that should just be second nature. It’s a shame that some people can’t just shut the fuck up and stop making it all about themselves and their pride when it’s not even about them, at all.

Even when people come at me in anger for not being more inclusive or for slipping up and using an offensive term, of course it hits me on a personal level at first, but then I take a step back to understand where that rage comes from and that it’s totally valid. It’s frustration. It’s what happens when the oppressed party decides to stop sitting idly by while their voices, perspectives, and experiences are underrepresented or consistently erased.

While I am privileged in so many ways, I have been on the raging critical side as a fat woman. I understand where that kind of frustration comes from. And I encourage everyone to speak out, all the time, ever, in whatever tone they feel they need to utilize in order to get their point across. It is honest, and it is the best thing. :)

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