Big Fit Girl. Louise Green
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Название: Big Fit Girl
Автор: Louise Green
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Здоровье
isbn: 9781771642132
isbn:
•“Look Hotter Naked” (Cosmopolitan, February 2016)
•“Better than Lap Band, Lose 25 lbs. in 8 Weeks” (Woman’s World, January 2014)
•“Your Dream Body in Just 2 Weeks” (Shape, January 2016)
Don’t buy in! We all know from experience that these “solutions” don’t solve any of our problems.
Melissa A. Fabello, a body-positive activist, sexuality scholar, and managing editor at Everyday Feminism, is critical of how plus-size women are perceived and treated in our weight loss–driven culture. “Currently, what’s on trend is for women to be thin but curvy, but not fat curvy. As we create narrower and narrower beauty standards, we create more and more disdain for anyone who falls, really, on either side of that ideal. However, the way that we look at ultra-thin bodies versus ultra-lush bodies is very different. We understand ultra-thin bodies as the embodiment of the constructs of ‘control’ and ‘willpower’ that diet culture sells us. And we understand fat bodies as the exact opposite—as a manifestation of sloth and gluttony.”
The annual revenue of the U.S. weight-loss industry—including diet books, diet drugs, and weight-loss surgeries—is 20 billion dollars. This staggering figure reveals how much desperation women feel; we will do anything to attain the feminine ideal, and marketers sell us on their unproven solution: weight loss.
We aren’t defective; the system is defective.
Jillian Camarena-Williams, Olympic shot-putter, Team USA 2008 and 2012:
“’Healthy’ means taking care of your body both physically and mentally. Too many people want to lose weight or change their body. I once did a Dexa scan, a scan that tells you your body composition. If I had 0 percent body fat I would still have weighed 170 lbs. That is still not a small girl. I knew I was taking care of my body, exercising, eating healthfully, and my body felt good. I may not have been my ‘ideal’ weight, but my body was healthy and functioning properly and that was all I could do!”
When I realized that my weight didn’t have to be a barrier to my happiness, I let go of chasing thinness. Ironically, this made me happier. I abandoned dieting and decided to pursue my athletic dreams in the body I had. My fitness goals were no longer about burning calories but about challenging myself, persevering, and achieving victory through the goals I set for myself.
How to Be the Change and Shatter Stereotypes
WHILE NOT ALWAYS easy, adhering to the following principles will help you ignore the influence of biased media. These suggestions have worked for me on my journey to athleticism and self-love:
CONSUME AND SHARE MEDIA THAT ACCURATELY DEPICT WOMEN IN A RANGE OF SIZES
DIVERSE IMAGES OF women are starting to appear more frequently, as we’ve seen with Erica Schenk’s cover of Women’s Running and the “This Girl Can” campaign. Other examples include the July 2015 cover of ESPN The Magazine, featuring plus-size Olympian Amanda Bingson in the nude. In 2016, for the first time in the magazine’s history, Sports Illustrated featured a plus-size model, Ashley Graham, on its cover, and the iconic brand Nike included diversity in their Brahaus Collection advertising by featuring plus-size model Paloma Elsesser. When you see images and stories like these, share the hell out of them on your social networks. Start conversations about size diversity in sports. Get to know the game-changers who are out there leading the way—it can change the way you think about your own body and athleticism. But in order to do that, you need to know where to find them. With that in mind, here are seven places to find body-positive and size-friendly media:
1.My Name Is Jessamyn
Jessamyn Stanley is a yoga teacher, body-positive advocate, and writer from Durham, North Carolina. Stanley has gathered a significant following documenting her yoga journey on Tumblr and Instagram.
2.Body Positive Athletes
According to their website, “Body Positive Athletes is a community of people who believe that the term ‘athletic’ defines a lifestyle and not a body shape or size. We represent people from all walks of life—coaches, athletes, trainers, and people who simply enjoy pursuing a healthy lifestyle. We have a common goal of celebrating the function of the body and the diversity of physiques in sport.”
bodypositiveathletes.wordpress.com
3.FabUplus Magazine
FabUplus Magazine is the long-awaited voice of the plus-size community. As North America’s first body-positive health, fitness, and lifestyle magazine with weight neutral content dedicated to women with curves, FabUplus is breaking traditional media rules by showcasing women of size and encouraging women to be confident.
4.“This Girl Can” Campaign
“This Girl Can” is a national campaign developed by Sport England alongside a wide range of partnership organizations. It’s a celebration of active women throughout England who are doing their thing no matter how well they do it, how they look, or even how red their faces get.
5.The Militant Baker
The Militant Baker is a popular blog authored by Jes Baker. Baker covers a mixture of subjects ranging from the delightful to the very uncomfortable. Her topics include the hazardous journey of body acceptance, how to take boudoir photos, and general empowerment. Baker’s wit and humor can also be found in her book, Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls.
6.Adios Barbie
Since the dawn of the web (or at least since 1998), feminist site adiosbarbie.com has been on a mission to broaden the discussion of body image to include race, gender, sexual orientation, dis/ability, age, and size.
7.About-Face
About-Face is an educational website whose vision is for women and girls to lead full lives, unconstrained by preoccupations with appearance and body image. It also aims for gender-balanced and gender-neutral media representation. The website offers tools and workshops to create change for women and girls.