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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.

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.

Fat Expert

thisisthinprivilege:

Thin privilege is not having an evidence based book you wrote being dismissed because you’re fat.

Thin privilege is not being asked to provide your food diary for a week to prove you eat healthy, so they can decide if your work has any merit. (just happened on facebook)

Thin privilege is not having your expertise discounted because you are fat.

Thin privilege is not having your experience with your own body immediately discounted.

Thin privilege is being heard when talking about your body.

Thin privilege is not having your research immediately discounted because it’s fat positive (thin researchers are taken more seriously).

Thin privilege is not having a boss, who happens to teach diversity classes, put a cartoon on their door that makes fun of your body type.

Thin privilege is not having to fight ever single day to be taken seriously.

Lonie McMichael, Researcher and Author of Talking Fat: Health Vs. Persuasion in the War on our Bodies

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