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So, The last aesthetic post I made got…. WAY more attention than I thought it would. It brought some discord, some appreciation, and some people forgetting who and why I made the post. But this time around I want to bring light to blogs that are run by BIPOCs from a variety of aesthetics on the 100 day anniversary of that infamous post! Message me or put below any that I missed!💖
Cottagecore
@heavenly-wisps -Black owned.🍯
@chenillecottage - Mi’kmaq/First Nation owned. 🍯
@iridessence -Black owned. She’s the big sister of any soft black girls. Kinda soft, Kinda cottagecore. Think of the Marie Antoinette movie by Sofia Coppola. 💖🍯
@labelleriviere -Black owned. 🍯
@melanincottage -Black owned. BEAUTIFUL I”M SCREAMING.🍯
@heydolly - Black owned. Cottagecore and soft. Also gorgeous.💖🍯
@lunascottage -Mixed owned. Cottage Witch. She seems so cool and I love her. 💖👀🍯
Dark Academia/Light Academia
@sadsapphicwriter & @academiabutmakeitdiverse - Black owned, My favorite academia blog, beautiful blog, beautiful person, I love her.💖📚
@melancholic–skies -Black owned. 📚
@a-brown-darkacademic - Desi owned.📚
@isotheia - Black owned.📚
@bipocaesthetic -Black owned, Mixture of DA and cottagecore.📚
@thewomanwhoreads -Black owned. 💖📚
@theacademiccottage -Black owned, cottagecore and dark academia. 💖📚
@darker-academia -Black owned. 💖📚
@muslimah-in-academia -Indian owned. 💖📚
@tsuronhema -Black owned. check out her art blog: @char-it 📚
@black-academia -Black owned, great for finding other blogs.📚
Warm/Domestic/Yearning (Honestly, this is my favorite aesthetic now. These blogs, ugh, they make everything feel better 💖💖💖💖)
@peoplehood - Tejano/Mexican owned, Their blog is *Mwah* bellissima, If you want to have domestic yearning hours please check them out.💖💖🥭
@kafkasbf - Black owned. 💖🥭
@marvelous-daydreams -Black owned.💖🥭
@petaldoom -Black owned. 💖🥭
@icarusgf - Chinese Owned. 💖🥭
Soft/Kawaii/Princesscore
@candybisous -Black owned. Camri is absolutely gorgeous, inside and out. Her instagram is So good. 💖👑
@softblackgirls -Black owned. 👑
@duveteuse-tulipe- Black owned. 👑
@angelicallyblack -Black owned. Amazing advice. 💖👑
@ggnossienne -Black owned. A beautiful Fae. 💖👑
@pinkpoundcake -Black owned, Nsfw, Her art is A1, Beautiful. 💖👑
@babyfairy -Mixed Owned. Bri isn’t completely a kawaii blog but she is the funniest person on this site and she needs more attention. 💖👑
@melaninpsycho -Black Owned. 👑
Luxury/Sugar Baby/Hypergamy (I don’t really care for the hypergamy lifestyle but the aesthetic is kinda A+. TW if you have BDD or deep insecurities with eurocentric beauty standards, I tried not to pick blogs that talk about changing looks/plastic surgery)
@blackprincessenergy -Black owned. 💵
@blackfemmeguide -Black owned. A mixture of softness and luxury.💖💵
@luxus-aeterna - iridessence’s secondary blog. A gorgeous mix of Dark royalcore, dark academia & cottagecore. No Hypergamy, no TW, All pure indulgence. 💖💵
@brownskinblair - Black owned. The name of the game is on the tin, think blair waldorf if she had a tumblr and melanin. 💖💵
@blk-vinluxee - Black owned. MY QUEEN, her instagram is So beautiful, it’s annemarie.akin 💵
@etherealclit -Black owned. 💵
@angelicallyafrican -Black owned. Mix between soft and Luxury. 💖💵
Y-2K/It-girl (TW of you have BDD or deep insecurities with eurocentric beauty standards)
@dreamgrlarchive - Black owned, learn how to be your own dream girl. Think Barbie meets Bratz. 💖💋
@thevirgodoll - Black owned, dreamgrlarchive’s sister. Check out her new blog. UwU 💋
@s0fthunny -Mixed owned. Great advice.💋
Besides Chanda all of these should be Black Owned, though y’all can correct me if i’m wrong. There are more if you check who i’m currently following.
@softestruler (me) - Academia, Warm/Domestic, and Luxury (occasionally soft and cottagecore)
@chandajaan - Desi Owned. Academia
@soft-pastel-clouds - Soft. (same person as @melancholic–skies/@heavenly-wisps)
@mysoftangel - Luxury and Femininity
@joli–coeur - Academia and Warmth
@afriqluv - Soft and Cottagecore
@nsaint1 - Luxury and Self Care
@black-femininity-exists - Luxury, Femininity, and Hypergamy
@chocolat-miel-lapin - Warm and Domestic
@blackgirlluxury - Luxury
@roseluxebabe - Luxury
@call-me-your-ala - Luxury
@vetta-sol - Academia
@princesslily - Academia
@ochre-wombn - Warm/Domestic
@blackbarbiedollxo - Luxury
@eyeofasya - Warm/Domestic
@tiffanygranted - Academia
@blvk-orbit - Warm/Domestic
@daughtersofthesun - Warn/Domestic
@glowfawn - Academia
@romanticlikekeats - Academia
@mrcmxwll - Warm/Domestic and Cottagecore
@melanated-angel - Academia
@hallofcore - Academia
@bougie-tenshi / @cottage-tenshi - Luxury and Cottagecore
@sai-reads - Academia
@shalomamme - Academia
@mikablack - Academia
Here Are Some Fat Positive Activists, Educators, Therapists, and Artists to Know!
First and foremost, the pioneer of organized fat activism:
⢠Bill Fabrey (he/him)
Bill Fabrey, a self-proclaimed fat admirer, founded NAAFA (the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance) in 1969 after gaining an understanding of the day-to-day oppression and discrimination faced by his wife, Joyce. Fabrey founded the organization in hopes to raise awareness of weight stigma, criticize biased studies, and increase overall acceptance and accessibility to fat Americans. He is considered one of the pioneers of the fat liberation movement, and is heavily involved to this day.
⢠Judy Freespirit, Sara Fishman, Lynn McAfee, Ariana Manow, & Gudrun Fonfa (she/her for each)
(Members of The Fat Underground, 1979)
Fat, radical, feminist members of NAAFA! Their agenda was much more aggressive than NAAFAâs, and eventually they broke off and formed their own group called The Fat Underground, which acted as a catalyst in the creation and mobilization of the fat liberation movement. Based in LA in the 1970s, the Fat Underground did not fight to change discriminatory laws but rather discriminatory thoughts and practices in different aspects of society, which included those of doctors and other health professionals who perpetuated the unhealthy habits encouraged by diet culture. In 1973, Judy Freespirit and Alderbaran published the âFat Liberation Manifestoâ which establishes that fat people are entitled to what they were denied on a daily basis: âhuman respect and recognition.â The other objectives then outline the commercial exploitation of fat bodies by both corporations and scientific institutions. (x) I will go into more detail about the Fat Underground in my next post, âThe History of Fat Activism!â
⢠Dr. Lindo Bacon (they/them), PhD
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Creator of the concept of HAES (Health At Every Size).
Dr. Bacon is best known for their paradigm-shifting research and advocacy upending the weight discourse. They have mined their deep academic proficiency, wide-ranging clinical expertise and own personal experience to write two best-selling books, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, and the co-authored Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight. Both are credited with transforming the weight discourse and inspiring a hopeful new course for the fat liberation movement. Dr. Bacon holds their PhD in physiology, as well as graduate degrees in psychology and exercise metabolism. Dr. Bacon formerly taught at City College of San Francisco, in the Health Education, Psychology, Womenâs Studies, and Biology Departments. A professor and researcher, for almost two decades Dr. Bacon has taught courses in social justice, health, weight and nutrition; they have also conducted federally funded studies on health and weight and published in top scientific journals. Their research has been supported by grants from the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Institutes of Health. A truly great pioneer in medical health research!Â
https://lindobacon.com/Â |Â HAESÂ | IG
⢠Aubrey Gordon, a.k.a. Your Fat Friend (she/her)
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Aubrey Gordon writes about the social realities of life as a very fat person, previously publishing anonymously as Your Fat Friend. She is the author of What We Donât Talk About When We Talk About Fat. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Lit Hub, Vox, Gay Mag, and has been covered in outlets around the world. She also hosts the podcast Maintenance Phase, in which she and cohost Michael Hobbes debunk and decode wellness and weight loss trends. Her articles are incredibly heartfelt and enlightening. You can read all of them at www.yourfatfriend.com !!
@ yrfatfriend on IG & Twitter
⢠Sabrina Strings (she/her), PhD
Sabrina Strings is an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine and the author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, which exposes fatphobiaâs roots in anti-blackness. Strings contributed an opinion story to The New York Times titled âItâs Not Obesity. Itâs Slavery.â With Lindo Bacon (creator of HAES), she coauthored âThe Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity,â published in Scientific American. Strings has a BA in psychology and an MA and PHd in sociology. This book is #1 on my to-read list!!
https://www.sabrinastrings.com
⢠Hannah Fuhlendorf (she/her), MA LPCC NCC
Hannah is a highly educated and experienced counselor whose work focuses on self acceptance, eliminating the effects of internalized oppression, and practicing through a HAES lens. She is a fat liberationist who puts out educational videos daily. Hannah is also married to a healthcare professional, and the two of them are working toward making the medical field more accessible to fat people in their local community, and offering education on how to be fat allies. I really admire Hannah and the work that she does!
@ hannahtalksbodies on IG and TikTok
⢠Tracy Cox (she/her)
Tracy is an award-winning performer and artist, who co-created the web series âAngry Fat Peopleâ with Matthew Anchel, which takes a pop culture approach on serious issues faced by fat performers. She has been interviewed by the New York Times on fat politics and accessibility, and currently has a huge following on IG where she unpacks fat performance, fashion, and politics. You may know her as the creator of the âfat vanityâ trend on TikTok!
@ sparklejams on IG & TikTok
⢠DaâShaun L. Harrison (they/them)Â
DaâShaun is a non-binary abolitionist, community organizer, and writer. They are currently a managing editor and columnist at Wear Your Voice Magazine. They travel throughout the United States and abroad to speak at conferences, colleges, and lead workshops focused on Blackness, queerness, gender, class, religion, (dis)abilities, fatness, and the intersection at which they all meet. DaâShaun is the author of the book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, which is expected to be published in July 2021. They have an incredibly enlightening social media presence as well!!
@ dashaunlh on IG and Twitter
⢠Lauren Buchness (she/her)
Lauren Buchness is one of my favorite artists. Sheâs a contemporary artist and fat activist based in Tucson, Arizona. By combining painting & performance, she aims to question Western standards of beauty and create conversations that alter preconceived notions about the fat body. Go check out her gorgeous work!!
@ ladybuchness on IG and TikTok
If youâre interested in learning about diet culture and intuitive eating, check out
Shana Minei Spence (she/her), MS RDN CDN
Shana is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who opposes food restriction and encourages intuitive eating! She spreads food positive daily messages on her platform. She used to work in fashion, but she left after being dissatisfied with the industry and went back to school to become involved in food policy and public health. She offers counseling on a HAES approach. I have much respect for Shana!
@ thenutritiontea on IG
And right here on tumblr (who was my personal introduction to fat lib) -
@ bigfatscience !!!
An anonymous fat liberationist. They share so many great resources, diving head-first into the scientific research of weight and health, theyâve found that the relation between the two is extremely complex. They tackle the biases of research in a system that profits off of fatphobia, and they offer a fat positive perspective based on scientific studies. Their blog serves as an easily accessible resource for fat folx and fat activists who want to learn about fat positive science to support their own personal interests/activism. Thank you for your work, bigfatscience!! (if you have questions for them, you will have a greater chance of getting a response with anon off!)Â
⢠Sonalee Rashatwar (she/they), LCSW MEd
Sonalee is an award-winning clinical social worker, sex therapist, and grassroots organizer. Theyâre a superfat queer bisexual non-binary therapist and co-owner of Radical Therapy Center. Sonalee is specialized in treating sexual trauma, internalized fatphobia, immigrant kid guilt, and South Asian family systems, while offering fat positive sexual healthcare. Go, Sonalee!!
@ thefatsextherapist on IG
⢠Fat Rose (org)
Fat Rose organizes fat people, building a more radical fat liberation movement in strong relationship with other social movements, such as anti-fascism, anti-ableism, and anti-racism. Check them out on Facebook!
fatrose.org
Honorable IG mentions: (Some anti diet culture specific blogs in here, as well)
@fatangryblackgirl  @msgigggles @thefatphobiaslayer @bodyimagewithbri @saucyewest @fatpositivetherapy @fatlippodcast @chairbreakerÂ
BOOKS
And hereâs an amazing list of fat-positive book recommendations from HannahTalksBodies!
Science & Health:
Health at Every Size by Lindo Bacon PhD
Body Respect by Lindo Bacon PhD and Lucy Aphramor PhD, RD
Secrets from the Eating Lab by Traci Mann PhD
Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison MPH, RD
Fat Liberation:
Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings PhD
Fat Activism by Dr. Charlotte Cooper
Fat Politics by J. Eric Oliver
The Fat Studies Reader by Esther Rothblum (Editor) and Sondra Solovay (Editor)
Fat Shame by Amy Erdman Farrell
Self Acceptance:
The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
Things No One will Tell Fat Girls by Jes Baker
Eating in the Light of the Moon by Anita Johnson PhD
Happy Fat by Sofie Hagan
You have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar
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