Body Liberation Through Photography with Lindley Ashline

"A fat body is not an indicator of disease or an eating disorder or of anything other than it being fat."

In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast, I am joined by Lindley Ashline.

Lindley (pronounced LIN-lee, she/her) creates artwork that celebrates the unique beauty of bodies that fall outside conventional "beauty" standards. Lindley is also the creator of Body Liberation Stock and the Body Love Box, a monthly body-acceptance subscription box. She lives outside Seattle with her husband and two feline overlords.

Find Lindley's work and get her free weekly Body Liberation Guide.

We talk about:

what is was like to grow up without a TV and how that influenced her body image

reclaiming the word fat for herself

being an average size kid and how her body changed during puberty

the time she went through the typical weight cycling that results from dieting

fat bodies, fashion and hiding your femininity

the urban myth of knowing someone who’s lost SO much weight and kept it off

her struggle with rejecting healthism and knowing that no body is "bad" because it doesn’t meet our culture’s standards of health

why it was such a big deal for Lindley to read about the social determinants of health

the fear of not finding anybody willing and wanting to work with a fat photographer

"You don’t have to be beautiful. You can just show up."

how conforming with beauty standards can (still) make or break your career

why she'll never photoshop her models fat rolls away

"Having the stories that are in your skin exposed to a camera is as intimate as telling your story."

what we can learn from nature about our bodies and our roles on this planet

the fact that just because we only value one body typ, it doesn’t mean that there won’t be any other body types out there anymore

and so much more!

Where to find Lindley:

Facebook: facebook.com/bodyliberationphotos

Instagram: @bodyliberationwithlindley

Other resources and experts we mention:

fatshionistas

Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby, authors of Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body

Marilyn Wann, author of FAT!SO? : Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size

Ivy Felicia

Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight by Linda Bacon & Lucy Aphramor 

Enjoy this episode!

Love and light,

Anne-Sophie

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