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.

TW: Fat-shaming bullshittery.

It makes me want to work that much harder to give a voice to all of my faceless, oppressed, beautiful fellow fatties.

There is a head attached to that fabulous corpulent bod that you’re using to represent the enemy in the war on this so-called “obesity crisis”.

There is a goddamn story, experience, and life associated with that body - an identity that is being completely eliminated for the sake of dehumanizing our existence, to make it easier on everyone to oppress and shame our bodies, our lifestyle choices, our health.

It is fucking heart-wrenching and keeps my blood boiling at a constant, raging pace.

Ugh.

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