THE MOVEMENT: Body positivity
How many times have you heard the term ‘body positive’ in the past few years? It’s a concept that has become more and more mainstream, and rightly so. Social media users have been challenging societal standards of beauty, reclaiming the word ‘fat’, and re-writing the narrative of what it means to be worthy of respect.
Where it all began
The roots of the body positivity movement trace back to the 1960s, when black women began addressing fatphobia and challenging beauty standards. In 1996, Connie Sobczak and Elizabeth Scott founded the website ‘The Body Positive’ hoping to “create a lively, healing community that offers freedom from suffocating
