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.
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Just a friendly reminder.

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thefineartnude:

The Ashland Academy of Art

Gorgeous Technique

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I have a really hard time with loving myself sometimes,
and when all else fails I take to drawing on my body and trying to rely on what I know to be true rather than what I think I see.

Even if those things were true, “I’d still be worth loving” 

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reimaginefat:

Venus Totem 2, Oil Bar on BFK, 2012

-Elisabeth Walden

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jackyepage:

curviliscious

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fancybidet:

A self portrait of me (fat white lady with dark brunette hair) squeezing a zit on my stretch marked breast. A purse with a floral china pattern spills out to the left and around me, and a banner with “nice white lady” stretches over me. In the background is a pattern of pink and purple fuchsias, and a doily shape on the lower right.

No one go to my blog I put everything relevant here.

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polkadotproblems:

this sucks especially when you have dark sheets cause even the MICROSCOPIC CELLS are visible. UGH.

omg I just found this blog and it’s so cute! Polka Dot Problems! Clever name, talented artist, and totally relate to this issue D:

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samberrilicious:

Drawing on an iPad isn’t all that bad. xD

beautiful illustration

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gracelizabetty:

fat merperson, sketchbook

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definatalie:

Image - a digitally coloured illustration of a fat girl licking her lips because her hair is made of pastries and her blush is icing and sprinkles.

eatsleepdraw:

Pastry Queen by Natalie Perkins

So I decided to colour it!

So delicious.

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