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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.

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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.

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nouveaubitch:

the girls who are too thin to be fat, and too fat to be thin? Where is our safe place? We get judged by both sides as either being too thin to be able to relate to fat girls or too fat to be considered as pretty as thin girls within western mainstream culture.

It’s starting not to matter though. I’m still buying two big ass slices of pizza for lunch.

There should never be any form of judgement coming from anyone in fat/body positive communities (I mean that’s supposed to be the thing we’re battling) and it makes me sad when I see people expressing these feelings of feeling alienated. I used to be an inbetweenie and am still on the low end of the fat scale so I can relate to what you’re saying in a lot of ways, but I’ve also come to understand a lot of things.

There is privilege that comes with being thin or an “inbetweenie” rather than full on fat or “deathfat” but that doesn’t mean anyone is judging you and invalidating your experiences when pointing out that privilege. Sometimes anger, frustration or tone can be misinterpreted as judgement and maybe that is what you’re responding to, but it’s nothing to be taken personally. 

Just to add - in my space, everyone is welcome. Everyone will always be welcome. As a fat woman and activist, my space will always center around fighting fat phobia and oppression, but body shaming occurs across all spectrums, and I would never think of silencing anyone.

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    a post about my life.
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