Here's my offering for you this week: Free stock photos.

 

Through the end of 2020, all of my blogging and writing clients receive a free blog-size stock photo from my offerings at Body Liberation Stock to illustrate each blog post or article I create for you.

 

Hi friend,

 

Every time I talk about the innate desirability, attractiveness or sexuality of fat women, men roll up to let the world know that unlike the rabble, they like fat women. A lot. In fact, they even have a thing for them, these swains admit bashfully, waiting for the just desserts of admiration and dates that must surely spring from such good-heartedness.

 

My dudes.

 

Listen.

 

We do not care that voluptuousness makes you, internet stranger, have pantsfeels. We don’t care! Ever! At all! Not a single one of us is thinking,

 

“Oh, thank goodness that Random Bob from the internet wants to f*ck me. The culture-wide discrimination, bigotry and oppression that keep me from living the same kind of life thin people do is clearly over. Long live Bob!”

 

No. We’re edging away because your inevitable appearance, whenever fat liberation and sexuality are brought up, to display your pantsfeels is *gross.* It’s creepy. We don’t want it.

 

And if we do want it, we’ll seek out dating- and sex-specific contexts where your expressions of feelings for the fat ladies are more appropriate.

(And yes, it’s almost always cisgender men who identify as fat admirers.)

 

“But wait!” the fat admirer cries. “I can love fat women and respect them, too!”

 

Read the rest of this thought >

Warmly,
Lindley

My favorite photo this week:

Heads Up: Self-Care Week

I'll out "out of town" the week of July 27 through August 2. In reality, I'll be right here at home, continuing to try not to get dead. But I won't be answering emails (other than urgent customer service issues) and I won't be working. 

 

As someone who has worked from her home for many years, even before I left my corporate career, I've long been familiar with the boundaries and separations needed to survive living and working in the same space.

 

Familiarity doesn't mean adherence, though, and -- even beyond the fact that everyone needs a break occasionally -- it's time for a reset.

 

In most years, a long road trip would be my getaway of choice, but this year I'll be mucking in the garden, playing my favorite video game, reading and drinking lots of tea sent by my wonderful Aussie friend all the way from Sydney.

 

(She also sent some Tasmanian smoked salt that smells like sex beside a campfire. It's inspiring goals for future years and future getaways.)

 

The Conversation

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

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

New Stock Image Collection: Summer Fun

I’m revolutionizing the stock photo industry by offering body-positive and diverse commercial-use stock images of fat, POC, and LGBTQIAP+ people that are ethically produced (all models and creators are fairly compensated).

 

This brand-new photo set features three plus-size folks -- two women and one non-binary person -- wading, splashing and relaxing in a river on a bright summer day. (All taken before social distancing!)

 

 

Quick Resources: On Detoxes and Cleanses

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Hi! I'm Lindley.

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Hi! I'm Lindley.

 

I'm a professional photographer (she/her, pronounced LIN-lee) who celebrates the unique beauty of bodies that fall outside conventional "beauty" standards. I live outside Seattle, WA. 

 

I talk about and photograph fat folks because representation of large bodies in the world is vital to our body liberation.

 

 

People come to me for:

  • Body-safe portrait, boudoir and small business photography sessions
  • Diverse, body-positive stock photos
  • Fat fine art photographic prints
  • Health at Every Size (HAES)-aligned consulting, writing and editing
  • The Body Love Shop, a central resource for body-positive and fat-positive art and products

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