Monday, February 20, 2006

Based in Atlanta, Georgia, The Body Positive is an activist organization, with a stated mission to deconstruct, challenge, and obliterate societal notions about what the body should be. We assert that our bodies are not inherently flawed and that we desire to love our bodies as they are. This group is the first of its kind in that it hosts members from an assortment of diverse communities. Women of size, women of color, trans persons, intersex individuals and the disabled have united under this banner of The Body Positive to challenge hegemonic constructions of the body. In efforts to meet this goal, members engage in a variety of activities designed to facilitate a positive relationship between themselves and their own bodies as well as actively challenge systems in society that they feel hinder this endeavor including the fashion industry, advertising agencies, and the medical community. As members of these diverse constituencies, members have both knowledge of their own groups’ particular body “problem” and conscientiousness about the ways in which their issues are interconnected.

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