About Feedists For Fat Liberation
Our Roots
Feedists for Fat Liberation began in Fall 2020 as a collective of like-minded feedists who felt that, for too long, feedism has ignored the call to fat liberation. In addition, this group felt that the negative perceptions of feedism in fat liberation spaces contributed to the lack of involvement of feedists in movement work. This group of liberation-minded feedists felt that it was time to begin seriously exploring how to integrate feedism and fat liberation, because both are naturally intertwined. We hosted our first community gathering in December 2020. The support and response from the feedist community was incredibly powerful. It was clear that there were countless other feedists aligned with this work. Our work is only just beginning, but we are proud of our roots!
FFL aligns all of our work and actions with the following guiding principles:
🔗Connection
Feedism and Fat Liberation are fundamentally connected with one another. Feedism cannot be enjoyed outside of fat liberation, and feedists are natural allies to the Fat Liberation movement. Envisioning a world where there is liberation for all must include feedist/fat fetish identifying people, and fat liberation offers a framework to support this.
🩺Health
Health has no bearing or involvement with this movement. We reject the medical-industrial complex and healthism in all forms. Health status has no bearing a person’s humanity and worth.
🌞Centering
The most marginalized fat voices will be heard.This includes infinifat people, superfat people, sex workers, fat QTBIPOC, fat BIPOC, fat disabled, and fat queer voices.
⚖️Justice
Feedism and fat liberation intersect with other justice movements. In supporting greater understanding between feedist and fat liberation communities, we will take an intersectional approach that considers feedism/fat liberation as they intersect with other justice movements.
📚Story
We recognize that each person has a story and that story is sacred. We will meet people where they are in their feedism/fat liberation journey.
🙌Shame-Free
We are committed to creating a space that is free from shame, judgement, hostility, coercion, and fear. We are committed to eliminating anti-fat bias/fatmisia in feedist spaces, while also working toward making fat liberation a feedist-positive space.
You can learn more about how feedism and fat liberation intersect on our website fatliberation.org!
