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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.

Discussions here on RBI sometimes become quite heated or involve opinions that are near and dear to our hearts. We are passionate people, it’s true, and I encourage that passion.

But please DO NOT LET YOUR PASSION FOR THE ISSUES WE DISCUSS DRIVE YOUR HATE.

I have had a number of people come back to me after a heated discussion or a critical comment I’ve made turns into a barrage of hate mail (from my followers) flooding their inbox. It worries me how my intentions can be turned around and repurposed in such a way by others.

It’s kind of a huge problem that I’ve been trying to figure out how to address because I mean, I don’t have the power to control the actions of others - but I shouldn’t feel like I have to! I can only insist that we not spread hate or bombard others with harmful words.

Bottom line: I do not support internet bullies, I support authentic conversation.

Rage is sometimes appropriate and I fully support a person’s right to feel anger, but keep it within your own space or at the very least try to stop that rage short of turning to hate before you send a message to another person.

There is nothing constructive about being intentionally hurtful. Please stop.

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