StopHatingYourBody a place of encouragement, a place to discuss body image, insecurities, self-esteem, and everything under the umbrella of fighting self-hate and finding self-love.
We aspire to hold space for groups that are under/misrepresented in media, to uplift the narratives and give attention to body positive folx, women,LGBTQIA+, people of color, people of different sizes, and people with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses, mental illnesses. We aim to share images of non-photoshopped bodies, real images, real stories, real people. To be body positive is a journey of self acceptance while advocating for and accepting our differences with others. Body positivity is for everyone; fighting self-hate and working towards self-love and acceptance of ourselves and others through resources, visibility, and discussion!
“Countable makes it quick and easy to understand the laws Congress is considering. We also streamline the process of contacting your lawmaker, so you can tell them how you want them to vote on bills under consideration.”
I really struggle to articulate this properly but I feel like a lot of abled people can recognise the idea of disabled people in theory but not in practice? And I feel this heavily affects accessibility
So for instance with disabled parking spaces they see them and know that they are for the elusive ‘disabled people’ but also they think “hey no one will need this right now” and so will use it because the idea of disabled people actually existing and interacting with a public space just doesn;t add up and fully form in their minds
And I think a major cause of this is the fact that a lot of disabled people have not been or continue to not be allowed in public spaces. Through ‘ugly laws’, institutionalisation, inaccessibility, abuse, imprisonment and other violence, disabled people have been forced from or never allowed into the public sphere and so the idea of us being there, existing in communities, in society is so abstract to abled folks and I feel like that really affects and informs a lot of attitudes that people have especially wrt to using things meant for disabled people
Graduated with a bachelors in Economics from Bristol University and her masters in International Health Management from Imperial College
Kwao is one of the most well-known plus size fashion models and Britain’s first black plus size model
Discovered in plus size modeling competition in the UK. The competition was held by Evans in association with Models1.
Kwao is an advocate for diversity and discrimination in the fashion industry. She envisions herself as a spokeswoman for body positivity and as a role model for young women everywhere
An activist for worldwide healthcare reform and hopes to work for a global health agency in the future
In 2008, Kwao was crowned Miss Ghana UK
Has her own charity organization called The Lily Project that helps as online counseling for young people
In 2012 she awarded the GUBA Rising Star award.
Signed withModels1 in the UK and JAG Models in the USA
Happy excessive-but-hopefully-still-heartfelt shopping season! In the spirit of supporting our communities while you buy things for your loved ones, Autostraddle has compiled a massive list of LGBTQ-owned businesses to support while you shop. More info about how they were chosen:
The criteria for inclusion was as follows:
–Store must exist independently of Etsy (because once Etsy gets involved, this list becomes 2,000 miles long) –Store must be an independent entity — as in; not just the merch store for a queer musician or a celebrity or a line of t-shirts for an event/magazine/etc. However, I made two exceptions to the “website merch store” rule for Autostraddle and for Everyone is Gay, because we are very close with the EIG like practically married. And because in theory, our stores could exist even if our websites didn’t exist. –Store must offer products you can order online and have delivered to your home for you to hold in your hands. Goods, not services.
Click the link above to see the list, and happy shopping!
[Text, “#DisabilityTooWhite” Annie with short lavender hair, glasses, and a striped top. In the background a collage of white actors as their disabled characters]
#DisabilityTooWhite is a hashtag created by Vilissa Thompson on Twitter in order to bring attention to the lack of racial diversity in disability representation. #DisabilityTooWhite does not intend to erase the struggles and the ableism that white disabled folks experience, it is merely addressing the issue that the intersection of race and disability is not often addressed and not often represented. #DisabilityTooWhite is a conversation that highlights how as minuscule as disability representation is already, disabled PoC (among other identities, disabled women, disabled LGBT folk, etc), their representation is microscopic!
cripple punk/cpunk is a movement & community for physically disabled ppl by physically disabled ppl that rejects the physableism & respectability politics of the mainstream antiableism movement
