Body positivity

Body positivity is a social movement promoting acceptance of diverse body sizes and challenging appearance-based discrimination. It advocates dignity and respect regardless of appearance.

Fat activism: Political and cultural activism opposing anti-fat bias and asserting the rights and dignity of fat people. Its organizing and critique of weight stigma supplied the movement’s foundations.
Weight stigma: Stereotyping, devaluation, or discrimination directed at people because of their body weight. Challenging this stigma is a central political aim of body-positive advocacy.
Size-inclusive fashion: Clothing design and retail that provide meaningful options across a broad range of body sizes. Greater access to clothing makes inclusion tangible beyond representation alone.
Body image activism: Advocacy seeking to change social attitudes and institutions that shape body image. It broadens individual acceptance into collective efforts to change appearance norms.
Fat Liberation Manifesto: A 1973 statement by the Fat Underground demanding liberation from discrimination against fat people. It articulates an early political program that influenced later body-positive activism.
Thin ideal: A cultural preference that treats thinness as the preferred or superior body shape. The movement contests the narrow ideal that makes many bodies seem unacceptable.
Body diversity in media: Representation of varied body sizes, shapes, ages, and abilities in media. The movement pushes media beyond repeated portrayals of a narrow body ideal.
Intersectionality: A framework for understanding how overlapping social identities shape experiences of power and discrimination. It reveals how body norms intersect with race, gender, disability, and class.
National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance: A U.S. organization founded in 1969 to improve the lives of fat people through advocacy and education. Its sustained advocacy helped establish organized resistance to weight-based discrimination.
Appearance-based discrimination: Unequal treatment based on a person’s physical appearance. Body positivity addresses discrimination that extends beyond weight alone.

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