Fat Acceptance Movement

The name stands for itself. The Fat Acceptance Movement, which is also referred to as the Size Acceptance Movement or Fat Liberation Movement, or Fat Power, is a vocal effort to change the society’s take on plus size people.

The actual establishment of the movement is hard to pin down since it took different names before it was known as the fat acceptance movement. It was during the late 1960s and early 1970s when the movement began making noise. The earliest effort of the movement was back in 1967 in New York. Steve Post, a famous radio character, led a group called “Fat-in” to Central Park.

The group included around 500 people, all of them carrying signs and photos of Sophia Loren, an actress known for her figure. Not only that, while rallying, the group was eating and also destroying diet books by fire. Fat-in was the start of other groups with fat acceptance as their motto. There was the NAAFA, which stands for National Association to Aid Fat Americans, and the New Haven Fat Liberation Front.

Nowadays, the Fat Acceptance Movement perseveres in their goal to instill a change of attitude toward fat people. On the bright side, there are no more burning diet books. The movement are raising awareness through public education, conferences, conventions, newsletters, books, and even websites and blogs.