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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.

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awkwardshoulders:

hisstericalhysterectomy:

whatfreshhellisthis:

Yep yep, because fat people are not strong

Or fast

Or dextrous

OP: YOU ARE WRONG.

You don’t like Fat Fef, then fine

But stop coming up with pseudoscience ‘explanations’ of why your opinion is right, justifiable and not bigoted

Just admit it: you don’t like fat people.

Fun Fact: Play any sport competitively for long enough and you’ll stop thinking that fat people aren’t as fast/strong/dexterous/good as you. Softball, some people that were much bigger than me were taking bases like it was the easiest damn thing in the world and hitting into the outfield/warning track/home runs. Fencing, fenced a fat girl once who was so fricking fast that she’d be near me without me knowing how she even got there. True facts. 

Fun fact: I am visibly smaller than my roommate, but while I’ve been a lazy slob most of my life, he’s been playing sports for over ten years and is much much better shape than I am. Size and weight have nothing to do with “strength”.

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