![]() ![]() Because of that, when I look at things that are supposed to be telling me I’m beautiful no matter what size I am, I often just feel left out. Women who are a size 20 (and bigger), women who have a Visible Belly Outline, women with small butts and breasts but big thighs and bellies are often intentionally ignored when it comes to picking out faces of the body positive, and even fat positive movement. But what about those of us who are twice her size and don’t have “all the right junk in all the right places?” Yes, it’s great for people who look like Meghan Trainor to know that even though society and culture tell them they’re not skinny enough they’re still beautiful. There seems to be this thing where people who are a little curvy or a little overweight or a little chubby, but still very much conventionally attractive, have become the face of the body positivity movement. Now don’t get me wrong, I love my chubby sisters, and I’m not minimizing the pressure you feel to have the perfect body, but it can get damn depressing when so much body positivity is focused on girls and women who aren’t even a size ten. Especially when it comes to people who are bigger than your usual “plus-size” role model. As the popularity of this hashtag shows, this is all changing. For such a long time the two piece swimsuit belonged squarely to decidedly non-fat people. I straight up love this hashtag and this article. Over at Colorlines, writer Miriam Zoila Pérez took a look at the trend of body-and fat-positive instagram, tumblr and twitter users taking to social media and showing off their bodies in their #fatkinis (a portmanteau of fat and bikini). I know that I’m not alone in this, but thanks to social media, all I have to do is take a look at my phone and be inspired to confidently step out wearing whatever I want. The one thing I’m still struggling with more than anything else is swimsuits, and specifically bikinis. Only recently have I been coming around and starting to learn to love my fat and wear the clothes that I want to in public. In fact, I was so ashamed of my body that I didn’t wear a swimsuit for about ten years. This is especially true when it comes to swimsuits. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian CinemaĪs a fat woman, I often struggle to love my body and find clothes that I feel look good on it.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now. ![]()
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