Here's my offering for you this week: I've released a new stock photo collection.

Joyful movement is the focus of this new commercial-use stock photo collection. People of a variety of body sizes, ethnic heritages and levels of ability bend, stretch, use mobility devices, move and groove in a fun, laughter-filled dance class.

All of the models in these images were compensated for their time and labor. The proceeds from image sales go to paying their creator a living wage and funding more diverse, body-positive stock photo shoots.

Browse the new images >>

Hi friend,

Incorporating anti-racism work into both our personal and professional lives is work without an expiration date.

Here are the ways I've been incorporating anti-racism work and supporting Black and other people of color in my business since 2015. I'm not looking for cookies -- the intent of this list is to share what can be done even with a business as small as mine, and possibly spur some ideas for how you can incorporate anti-racism efforts into your own work and life.

> Prioritizing Black people and POC who respond to my Body Liberation Photos model calls (both for portraits/boudoir and stock photos)

> Prioritizing Black- and POC-owned businesses as suppliers for The Body Love Box, my body-positive shop and custom gift boxes

> Compensating marginalized (and all) models for their time and labor

> Monthly donations to Black Lives Matter and my local Duwamish tribal council

> Financial support for The Body is Not An Apology, and for several individual creators of color via Patreon

> Continuous learning and internal work around my own whiteness

I'll be proud to continue supporting Black folks in my business and working to unravel my own internal biases.

Warmly,
Lindley

My favorite photo this week:

New from me:

• 9 Foundational 101 Reads for Health at Every Size (HAES)
• Diverse Massage Therapy Stock Photos with Century Massage
• The Body Positive Maven: An Interview with Lindley Ashline
• In the Media: Lindley on Fearless Rebelle Radio (with Transcript)
• Ask a Body-Positive Creator: Illustrator and Artist Anni Winder
• ICYMI: It’s time for a reality check on looks.

The Conversation

Here's what's being discussed this week in the world of body acceptance, HAES, body positivity and fat acceptance:

• Moving Rocks: On Burning Health at Every Size to the Ground
• 8 Fantasy Novels by Trans and Nonbinary Authors
• How to Cultivate Radical Body Love with Sonya Renee Taylor
• Jabbie is for Every BODY! Never Work Out Alone!
   
• Activism As Self-Care: How to Energize the Most Important Work of Your Life
• 12 Black-Owned Bookstores And The Books They Recommend
• 14 Black Owned Self Care Brands

Need a good 101 or refresher on bodies, fatness and science? I always recommend Body Respect by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor.

Quick Resources: Dig Deeper into Anti-Racism

• How to Be White
• FRR #169: Fitness, Racism and Body Image
• #1272: “White Family Facebook Drama Over Police Racism”
• The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity
   
• Diet Culture's Racist Roots with Sabrina Strings, Sociologist and Author of FEARING THE BLACK BODY
• Town Hall Recording: Anti-Racist Small Business with Ericka Hines and Others
• Whiteness at Work (sign up to get the recording) with Desiree Lynn Adaway and Jessica Fish

New & Interesting in the Shop

• Resilience: Surviving in the Face of Everything
• I Am Enough
• Hair Like Mine (Kids Like Mine)
• Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating a New Space of Belonging
• Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim
• Heavy
• Clearance sale on Body Love Boxes

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