Everyday Reminders: 11 Body-Positive Stickers and Bookmarks
Everyone deserves to have medical equipment that fits them. Here are 13 extra-large blood pressure cuffs to try out on your extraordinary, worthy large body.
Everyone deserves to have medical equipment that fits them. Here are 13 extra-large blood pressure cuffs to try out on your extraordinary, worthy large body.
Image description: An animation of small waves washing up on the sand behind a driftwood log. Deception Pass, Washington state. When I developed sleep apnea…
Use these beautiful plus-size pregnancy stock photos from Body Liberation Stock to increase the diversity of your marketing materials, website and social media feeds.
When I developed sleep apnea suddenly in 2020 during a series of major dental work, I had no idea that getting diagnosis and treatment would…
Bear with me for a moment while I get a bit nerdy. Trust, there are fat politics coming up, as usual. Especially during these pandemic…
Here’s one simple action you can take to help end discrimination against fat bodies this week: Believe fat people when we say something is fatphobic, specifically the works of Brené Brown, Anita Johnston, Geneen Roth and Bessel van der Kolk.
Image description: A teal square with a chat bubble and the words, “Fat bodies are just treated as this horrifying mystery in the photography community.…
Image description: A teal square with a chat bubble graphic and the text, “”There are very few people out there who are showing people of…
Content note: COVID-19, weight discrimination in a healthcare setting I had a COVID scare last weekend. On Saturday, I woke up with a sore throat,…
Nature gave me wings. Who are you to bid me hide them? There’s a new print of my work available in the Body Love Shop!…
Use these beautiful plus-size running stock photos from Body Liberation Stock to increase the diversity of your marketing materials, website and social media feeds.
Image description: A plus-size woman poses in front of a sunset-lit city skyline and water with one arm in the air and the other wrapped…
Image description: Three fat women stand back to back with hands entwined in a grassy park. In a fat-folks-only Zoom call last night, a friend…
One of the most common pieces of pushback I see against fat acceptance and the need to represent fat and very fat people is, “Why are you so negative? Can’t we all just celebrate all the progress that’s been made? You’re so divisive!” It’s often accompanied by more-enlightened-than-thou comments about wanting to focus on “the good,” as if those of us confronting oppression are somehow more negative than those who want to cover up and ignore it.
Use these beautiful plus-size pregnancy stock photos from Body Liberation Stock to increase the diversity of your marketing materials, website and social media feeds.
Image description: The side rolls of a fat body are shown in a black-and-white photograph, with highly textured skin. An excellent question came up on…
There’s a new print of my work available in the Body Love Shop! In this fine art photograph, a fat woman with brown skin and…
Here are 14 photos from the Scale Smashing collection at Body Liberation Stock, the world’s first and best site for high-resolution stock images of large bodies for commercial use.
Image description: A fat woman’s shoulder, side rolls and hip are shown in a black-and-white photograph. During this pandemic, so many people are finding that…
Image description: An abstract light blue watercolor background with the words, “Stop appropriating the experiences and oppression of people who are fatter than you.” Lindley’s…
Seeing bodies like ours helps us learn to position ourselves as equally worthy. Here are 15 of my favorite fat-positive and inspiring fine art prints.
Image description: A fat woman with pink hair stands on a yoga mat and throws her arms joyfully into the sky as she begins to…
An under-analyzed part of diet culture is where it intersects with class and socioeconomic status. I talked about this a bit on my episode of Food Psych, and had a chance to explore it in more depth in this discussion with Jodie Gale on the Soul Sessions podcast.
Image description: Lindley, a fat white woman, stands in a pink and blue plaid shirt in front of a wall covered in yellow and brown…
Everyone deserves to have medical equipment that fits them. Here are 13 extra-large blood pressure cuffs to try out on your extraordinary, worthy large body.
If we could opt out of oppression, would we still “deserve” it?
Image description: A fat blonde woman in a bikini with visible side rolls sits on a vintage red suitcase at the edge of the water…
In this podcast episode, Dalia Kinsey and I discuss the functions of propaganda, intersectionality and fatphobia, emotional labor and the world’s most important subjects, cats and plants.
You deserve respectful, effective treatment for PCOS, no matter what kind of body you live in. Here are 15+ articles, podcasts, books, support groups, programs and other resources to support your amazing, worthwhile body through PCOS diagnosis and treatment.
Image description: Lindley, a fat white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair, glasses and a sleeveless heart-polka-dot dress, stands with her arms raised and resting on…
Reader E. asks, “Dear Lindley, I’m working on accepting my body, but it’s so hard to sit at work and have to listen to diet talk all the time. How can I deal with this?”
Image description: A thin white man with close-cropped hair is shown from the neck up in two shots, side by side. In the first, he…
Image description: A fat white women with shoulder-length blonde hair is shown in a black and white image with a black drape just covering the…
For people in very large bodies, who are most affected by the physical and infrastructural inequalities built into a world that is designed to exclude…
Image description: A young woman’s legs are shown propped up on a white wall. She is wearing a short black tutu skirt and black lacy…
Because I have my fat fingers in so many pies, this chat with Chrystal Bougon of Curvy Girl Lingerie and All Bodies Electrolysis touches on…
One part of interacting with healthcare providers while living in a fat body is that your value and worth as a patient are always, always…
Think you can’t support a movement from your corner of the world? Think again! In this Instagram Live, Sara Stanizai, LMFT and I talk about…
Image description: A fat white baby’s arm is partially seen between an overlapping floral blanket, blue onesie sleeve and the body and strap of a…
On this episode of the Rising Whole podcast, Prim Ormanovich and I talk about how coherency in your business comes from having an underlying ethical…
So many of the dynamics around bodies, weight and worth are really about power, and it was fascinating to dig into those power dynamics with…
When someone in a marginalized body shares a deep fear with you and your first answer is, “Well, I work in that field and I’ve…
You can assign points to food and you can talk about calories in calories out and you can talk about willpower and you can talk…
I prepared these two German pieces for an audition and they’re both so floating and lovely! “Die Lotosblume” (“The Lotus Flower”) is a poem written…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lindley Ashline (she/her) (@bodyliberationwithlindley) on Aug 26, 2020 at 9:29am PDT I never intended to get…
The first two paragraphs of the thought below deserve a content note for violence and fat hatred, though the rest doesn’t. Please protect yourself as…
Today I’m thinking about the mental load of living as a fat person and how it’s affected by one small example: this Renfrew newsletter mess.…
Content note: Open bigotry; fatphobia in a medical and healthcare treatment setting. Image is Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” “As I sit across from my 5’…
This was one of my most memorable recital songs! Not only is the composer’s name (Engelbert Humperdinck) fun to say, but playing the Dew Fairy…