Center for Body Trust is dismantling systemic weight stigma and providing education and support for healing relationships with our bodies.

Check out their many offerings and training.

What you eat probably doesn’t matter as much as you think it does. The BMI is Bullsh*t. Diet culture is racist; anti-fatness is rooted in anti-blackness. Wellness culture is ableist AF. LGBTQIA+ folx have higher risk to develop disordered eating behaviors than their heterosexual peers. Diets don’t work, obviously.

You’ve quite possibly landed on this page because you already know all this…or maybe you don’t. Either way, welcome 🙂

If you’re looking to learn more about how to nourish YOUR body from a place of self-care, opposed to unhelpful, unmotivating, toxic “shoulds,” without a side of weight stigma or body shame, check out the resources below.

Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies.The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength.

This is a list on weight neutral health care providers in the US and International.

This resource list offers printable self-advocacy cards you can take with you to your medical visits, handouts for client education, a list of friendly practitioners, and for those interested in diving deeper into the studies informing the current development of evidence-based, weight neutral healthcare and the limitations of intentional weight loss.

We are an international medical organization working to advance weight-inclusive care. We challenge the pathologization of body size, which continues to drive healthcare disparities and disproportionately harm larger bodied patients. By providing mentorship, education, and advocacy, our organization serves as the professional home for physicians practicing and learning about weight-inclusive care. We envision a world where patients of all sizes have access to empathetic and evidence-based health care.

Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals - where fat bodies were once praised - showing that fat phobia, as it relates to Black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of "savagery" and racial inferiority.

Sonya Renee Taylor is a New York Times best-selling author, world-renowned activist and thought leader on racial justice, body liberation and transformational change, international award winning artist, and founder of The Body Is Not an Apology (TBINAA), a global digital media and education company exploring the intersections of identity, healing, and social justice through the framework of radical self-love.

adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through her multi-genre writing, her music and her podcasts. adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas and practices for transformation. She is the author/editor of several published texts, a musical ritual, an album and cogenerated tarot deck.

Dr. Sand Chang (they/them/their) is a Chinese American nonbinary clinical psychologist, DEI consultant, and somatic psychotherapist with more than 20 years of experience providing training and mental health services in a variety of settings, including the corporate sphere, startups, community mental health, university counseling, public schools, nonprofits, and medical centers.

Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes Debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams, and nonsensical nutrition advice.

Aubrey Gordon also known as Your Fat Friend, is an author, podcaster, and activist. She writes about fatness, fat acceptance, and anti-fat bias, and her podcast, Maintenance Phase, focuses on the poor science behind health and wellness fads.

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