06/18/2026
It is hard to heal from an eat!ng d!sorder in a disordered culture. If we want to make a dent in the rates of Ed’s and in eat!ng d!sorder prevention, we need fat liberation.
Healing from an ED and fat liberation are not separate. Eat!ng d!sorder advocacy that doesn’t include advocating for fat liberation isn’t going to have as much of an impact.
To be clear, this doesn’t just mean including fat people with Ed’s in your advocacy or advocating for treatment that is free of anti-fat bias, although please do those things too.
This is about fat liberation- advocating for a world in which people in all sizes bodies, including those in the fattest bodies, can exist free from oppression and stigma.
This is about advocating for a world that is built for people in all body sizes. Healthcare that is free from anti-fat bias.
One of the most powerful and impactful things we can do to prevent eat!ng d!sorders is to create a world in which it is safe to be fat.
If you care about people healing from eat!ng d!sorders, you need to also care about fat liberation. If you care about preventing Ed’s, you need to care about fat liberation. If you care about making Ed treatment more effective, you need to care about fat liberation.
Eat!ng d!sorder activism can’t leave fat activism out and expect to be successful or have a significant impact.
Decreasing and preventing Ed’s is dependent on fat liberation.
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deeply connected. We won’t see a significant reduction in the number of people with eat!ng d!sorders until we see significant progress towards fat liberation. A commitment to fat liberation needs to be a part of all eat!ng a.sorder prevention and advocacy.
