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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"fat activism"”.
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Fat activism and collective accountability: from virtual community to embodied coalition
<p>The paper examines the “fat body” in the United States, and the fat acceptance grassroots community and fat activist resistance, as they exist on the social media site Tumblr. Blending feminist ethnographic fieldwork with post-structuralist and intersectional theoretical analysis, I interrogate …
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Redefining health on Instagram: Women's experiences with body positivity and body neutrality
This thesis explores women’s experiences with body positivity and body neutrality movements on social media. Body positivity is an umbrella term for a movement that resists diet culture and beauty standards which emphasize thinness and whiteness. Mainstream body positivity focuses on loving one’s …