General Resources
- Center for Body Trust resource page (Sample letters to healthcare providers/parents/schools, size-inclusive clothing brands, info on eating disorders, recommended articles (scientific and mainstream), TED talks, podcasts, and accounts to follow on social media)
- Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) Weight neutral principles
- Harvard Implicit Bias page for weight
- Professional larger-bodied stock photos from Body Liberation Photos
- Free body-inclusive movement classes from Joyn
- Poodle Science video from ASDAH (2 min)
- Influencers in larger bodies--these lists are two places to start:
- The Bizarre and Racist History of BMI
- Everything You Know About Ob*sity is Wrong
- “No Health No Care: The Big Fat Loophole in the Hippocratic Oath” Dismantling Medical Fatphobia
- The Racist Origins of Fatphobia
- After the Biggest Loser, Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight
- Who Says Dieting Fails Most of the Time?
- The Invisibility of Marginalized Folks Suffering from Eating Disorders
- Fat is Not the Problem, Fat Stigma is
- ‘GP said my symptoms were due to being overw*ight but I had ovarian cancer’: Woman, 38, describes how being fat-shamed by doctor could have killed her
- Weight Stigma as a Violation of the NASW Code of Ethics: A Call to Action
- An Evidence Based Rationale for Adopting Weight-Inclusive Health Policy (meta analysis)
- Association of All-Cause Mortality With Overw*ight and Ob*sity Using Standard Body Mass Index Categories: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
- The Weight-Inclusive versus Weight-Normative Approach to Health: Evaluating the Evidence for Prioritizing Well-Being over Weight Loss
- How and why weight stigma drives the ob*sity ‘epidemic’ and harms health
- Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift
- Associations of weight stigma with cortisol and oxidative stress independent of adiposity
- “But Everything Is Supposed to Get Better After Bariatric Surgery!” Understanding Postoperative Suicide and Self-injury
- ‘Ob*sity paradox’ Misunderstands the Biology of Optimal Weight Throughout the Life Cycle
- Treatment Outcomes and Trajectories of Change in Patients Attributing Their Eating Disorder Onset to Anti-ob*sity Messaging
- Perceptions of weight discrimination: prevalence and comparison to race and gender discrimination in America
- Intersectionality: An Understudied Framework for Addressing Weight Stigma
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Weight Stigma: Co-Occurrence and Associations with Psychological Well-Being
- Maintenance Phase podcast and transcripts
- Your Fat Friend blog
- Food Psych podcast
- Reclaiming Body Trust by Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant
- The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
- Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
- What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
- Body Respect by Lindo Bacon and Lucy Aphramor
