Body Positive Instagram

Ready to curate an Instagram feed that nourishes you and reminds you of the glory of your human body? Here are some of our favorite Instagram accounts to follow! Have others you love? Follow us on Instagram and send us posts, we love hearing from you in our DMs!

As you scroll this page, notice what it feels like to scroll through a collection of images created by people who are living in their bodies without apology. Does this feel familiar or new? Easy or challenging? Notice what judgments come up, as in your judgments you reveal your indoctrinations and bias. Notice where you feel excitement, attraction or interest.

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Outrage is Not Action: Why Radical Love Must Move Us to Make a Better World

A post shared by The Body is Not an Apology (@thebodyisnotanapology) on Apr 19, 2019 at 10:59am PDT

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in my training to become a sex therapist i was offered an expanded understanding of sexuality, beyond penis in vagina intercourse (which is often what sex is diminished to when we’re still assuming cisgender heterosexual sex is the best and only valid sex). sexuality includes a biopsychosocialspiritual lens, using the Circles of Sexuality model (google). there’s an entire circle on Sexualization, which covers issues like flirting, seduction, sexual harassment, media, and sexual assault. in my workshops with sexuality professionals, i explain how the harm experienced by fatphobia and diet culture belong in this circle. the same way white supremacy affects the way folks of color experience their bodies, we need to understand these as things that impact sexuality . fatphobia involves a kind of inescapable surveillance that can affect the way we fear eating in public, dress for our shape, speak in ways that take up less space, or avoid PDA for the rest of our lives. it’s not like street harassment, aka fatcalling, where it ends when you go back indoors. fatphobia follows you anywhere there’s another fatphobic person nearby and it can also become internalized where we become our own fatphobic police . sexual harassment is defined as behavior characterized by the making of unwelcome and inappropriate sexual remarks or physical advances in a workplace or other professional or social situation. the practice of sexual harassment can become sexual boundary violation. a child cannot consent to a diet the same way a child cannot consent to sex. the behavior of passing on fatphobia to another person is harmful, and as a sex therapist i identify the ways fatphobia impacts our ability to experience sexual liberation . folks struggling with internalized fatphobia may avoid emotional or physical intimacy altogether, convincing themselves they are undesirable or undeserving of pleasure (bc capitalism does not value the fat body as productive or desirable). they may only eat health foods as a way to deny pleasure. they may struggle with assertive communication and taking up space in convo and friendships. they may be unable to masturbate, orgasm with others, or enjoy PDA

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“I think it is very important for trans and non-binary people to see themselves represented in mainstream media in a diverse way, and a way that doesn’t feel tokenistic. The 29 people captured in this work is the smallest fraction of an incredibly diverse community, so I personally tread carefully in using the word ‘diverse.’” ‘American Boys’ is a photo book of transmasculine people by Soraya Zaman. Hit the link in bio for the full story.

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Laziness is a myth that's forced upon us to make us fear slowing down and taking care of ourselves. Laziness is a weapon of capitalism, ableism, and fatphobia. . I promise you – no matter what, you are NOT lazy. . Here's what I know: most of us are overwhelmed, because as Isabel Abbott says, the system is designed to be overwhelming. Most of us experience constant stress, worry, and busy-ness. A great many of us experience anxiety, depression, and a shortage of crucial resources. . Our bodies NEED rest. Our minds NEED rest. And yet, we are so terrified of falling behind, not measuring up, not fitting in, or discovering that we're unworthy or unlovable, that we fill every single moment of every single day with SOMETHING. . Which leads us to numbness, dissociating, disconnecting, and exhaustion. . What many people label as lazy is actually trauma, bone-deep exhaustion, and survival. . It's hard being in a body in this world that is profoundly unfriendly to bodies. Often, our fear of laziness is actually a fear of fatness, a fear of softness, a fear of vulnerability and receiving help, a fear of uncertainty, a fear of feeling, a fear of disability and aging. . It is violence to expect ourselves to do it all, have it all, be it all. It is violence to force our bodies to perform like inanimate machines instead of soft, wise, living, ever-changing beings. . You are not lazy. . You deserve to rest. You deserve to slow down. You deserve nourish yourself: to sleep, to eat, to play, to have fun, to feel good. You never have to earn those things because those things are what it means to be human. . Let's break-up with lazy. Let's burn it to the ground. Let's rest. Let's center pleasure. You are worthy & deserving without doing a thing. . #yourpleasurematters #powerinpleasure #haes #mentalhealthawareness #recovery #bodytrust #bodytrustprovider #eatingdisorderrecovery #edrecovery #fightfatphobia . Join my new course, Power in Pleasure to explore this even more. Link in bio.

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