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Malaysia Fat Squad is a brave space for fat affirming stories from 🇲🇾& beyond
No hateful language and attitudes allowed
🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 and BIPOC

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As scenes of massive human sufferrings fill our screens, its become more important than ever to understand how US imperialism, militarism & genocide impacts the lives of those marginalized, especially women. For decades, narratives such as self-defence, sovereignty, war on terrorism, combined with feminism, women's rights and peace through market economies are used in turns to support US imperialism while in actuality, the objective is to control, oppress and exploit.

But this appropriation of feminism and promotion of imperialist feminism has not only been the domain of white elites in the US & global North; many feminist of the middle & ruling class in the global South have always played an active and productive role to the articulation of new forms and new agents of imperialist feminism. But even they have learnt the hard way that support for women’s rights germinated within an imperialist power are both fragile and contingent.

Because of this, its more important that feminists reject imperialist feminism and look to a feminism which stands with all women—trans+, Indigenous, Dalits, refugees, Congolese and Palestinian.

This weekend, Trump and some other terrible people are coming to town, under the much repeated trope of diplomacy, trade/economic negotiations, etc. There is anticipated massive KL city-wide roadblocks, closures & shutdown, removal of the homeless people, along with veiled intimidation against any assemblies/protests happening. Already one is left to wonder who does this city even belongs to? But this here-at-home instance is evidentiary; that empire does not liberate, it subjugates. It does come to negotiate or do "peace deals", it expects capitulation. It expects the smothering of outrage and silencing of resistance. But they will not get that.

So they can block all the roads, but we will still take to the streets.

Sunday, 26 Oct
5pm
Ampang Park

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We've gained a few followers since we first introduced what FLN is so we thought it might be good to reintroduce what we are building! ✨

We are Fat Lib Norwich, a group for fat people in Norwich and the surrounding areas to come together. We are open to everyone, regardless of where you are in your fat acceptance journey. If you've read all the books, amazing! Can't wait to learn from you! If you are just starting out, welcome aboard! 👋

Check out the slides above to see what fat liberation even is, and more! Keep an eye out on our social media in the next couple days where we will be introducing the people behind the account. Don't forget we have our Bring Your Own Craft event on Thursday too! 🖌️🖍️

#fatliberation #fatacceptance

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Semasa Covid-19, internet dipenuhi dengan banyak perbincangan tentang cara untuk kekal fit atau sihat, menurunkan berat badan dan lain-lain, di mana banyak daripada perbincangan ini bersifat “fat-phobic.” Melalui platform My Fat Squad, Ratna mula mengadakan perbincangan secara langsung untuk menangani naratif negatif mengenai orang gemuk dan kesannya terhadap mereka.

Mencari komuniti semasa tempoh bersendirian adalah sukar, terutamanya apabila internet dipenuhi dengan negativiti, tetapi ia juga boleh menjadi saluran untuk memperjuangkan apa yang anda percaya dan berjumpa dengan komuniti anda.

My Fat Squad kini telah berkembang menjadi sebuah komuniti yang memberi ruang yang selamat kepada orang gemuk, dan baru-baru ini menganjurkan “Fat Empowerment Day” dengan pelbagai aktiviti.

Macam mana anda menemui komuniti di internet?

Kongsikan di bawah!

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When the world was hit with Covid-19, the internet was flooded with talks about staying fit, losing weight and other similar conversations, where many of these conversations were fat-phobic. Using her platform, My Fat Squad, Ratna started hosting live online conversations to tackle these harmful narratives around fat people and their impact on fat people.

Finding community during isolation period can be hard, especially when the internet was constantly filled with negativity, but it can also be just the right channel to advocate for what you believe in and finding your own community along the way.

My Fat Squad now has grown into a community and recently hosted a Fat Empowerment Day where various activities were hosted surrounding the topic fatness!

How did you find your community on the internet?

Share below!

#RightToExpressionAndParticipation #Internet #TalianInternet #InternetConnection #Malaysia

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Jom kita ikuti kisah Magesh, Lianna dan Miko dan perjalanan mereka dalam mengenali dan menerima diri masing-masing.

Walaupun pengalaman mereka adalah perjalanan peribadi mereka, kita sebagai masyarakat mempunyai tanggungjawab untuk memastikan mereka juga boleh mengambil bahagian dalam kehidupan seharian dengan bermakna.

Bagaimana caranya? Dengan mengubahsuai dan mengadaptasikan persekitaran berlandaskan keperluan mereka.

Farizah, daripada @myfatsquad telah kongsikan pendapat berkait isu ini!

Sebelum melabuhkan tirai bagi bulan #FatLiberation, kami ajukan soalan kepada anda:-

Bagaimana pula anda? Apakah peranan yang kita semua boleh mainkan agar kawan-kawan kita yang berbagai rupa, warna kulit, saiz dan lain-lain boleh terlibat dalam masyarakat secara bermakna?

Kongsikan pandangan korang di bahagian komen dibawah!

Rakan kerjasama: @canainckt @myfatsquad

Terima kasih kepada rakan sekerja atas sokongan yang diberikan dalam menghasilkan perkongsian ini untuk kempen #MyBodyMyRules. Banyak ilmu dan added perspective yang MAU peroleh, thanks to korang! 🫰🏽

Special mention kepada SIUMAN Collective juga yang telah memurnikan lensa kami dalam menengahkan isu inklusiviti dan diversiti.

#cflimy A photo of 7 illustrated characters surrounding the border of the poster. The 7 cartoon characters are diverse, with varying skin tones, body sizes and types. The title states Inilah Saya. Logos of MAU and CFLI are on the top right.

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This week’s Sunday Spotlight focuses on Fat Liberation community groups, both in the UK and internationally.

Swipe through to read more about our friends at @naafaofficial, @fatclubbtn , @fat_positive_socials_yorkshire and @myfatsquad! We’ve also included a list of some other community groups that we’ve heard about over the past year!

We’re sure there are a lot more groups out there that we haven’t come across yet, so let us know in the comments if we’ve missed any!

Plus, @yrfatfriendfilm has a whole directory of fat liberation communities and events on their website, so if you’re looking for a group in a specific area, be sure to check their list out!

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Our planned 🚨LIVE 🚨 discussion for this evening has been rescheduled due to unforeseen circumstances, so we have the absolute pleasure to be having a chat TOMORROW with the brilliant @fatcatfar of @myfatsquad and @porpoiseclub of @fatclubbtn to chat about what we expect from our allies, where allyship is coming up short and why it matters to the community what ex-fats do and who they hurt.

💜 We’ll be hosting this on the @fatliblondon page, so come back here Thursday 22nd August at 7pm BST! 💜

✨We can’t wait to get into this incredibly important topic with you! ✨

Will we see you there? 👀

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Celebrating #FatLiberationMonth with @myfatsquad and their lovely community to create a safe space for fat empowerment.

Event highlights include clay making, body positive art painting, creative writing, clothes swap, as well as open discussions on weight bias and #SizeAcceptance.

#FatPositiveMalaysia #BodyPositivity #FatLiberation

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This #FatLiberationMonth, we asked some of our friends what #FatCommunity means to them. And we want to know…what does Fat Community mean to YOU? Tell us in the comments! #NAAFA #FatLiberationMonth2024
#FatCommunityIs Video by @jamandasab

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Let’s kick off fat liberation month with a community event hosted by @myfatsquad, facilitated by @hidellearts in @colabs.coworking .

We will be holding a mini clothing swap so bring 3-5 pieces of your clothing for a swap!

If you would like to join but don’t can’t afford the ticket- please DM us we are able to accommodate you.

For a link to the form to secure your spot please dm us.

We hope to see you! #fatliberation #fatliberationmonth #fatliberationforall #bodypositive #bodypositivity

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We were ecstatic to spend our Sunday at the 10th annual Weight Stigma Conference organised by the fantastic Dr Angela Meadows from @uniessex 💕 Our brains are exploding with knowledge and our hearts with joy from the sense of community and solidarity we felt. It can feel isolating doing this work sometimes, but connecting with this wonderful group recharged our batteries to keep going. Plus, we got this incred pic of reps from fat positive groups and fat activists around the world! 💕

[Image description: Image 1 - Fat activists from around the world gathered and smiling with their arms around each other. Image 2 - NAAFA Exec Director Tigress Osborn and FLL Co-Founder Sim smiling at the camera with their arms around each other. Image 3 - Dr Caleb Luna stood at the front of the conference room, presenting his research and a PowerPoint slide that reads “Compulsory Thinness”. Image 4 - Madhusree standing at the front of the conference room presenting their work on fatness and sex, with a screen sharing their slideshow to their left. Image 5 - A hand holding up the Weight Stigma Conference pamphlet which features an artistic painting of a fat body.]

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#WeightStigmaAwarenessWeek #WeightStigma #wsc10 #weightstigmahurtsusall #weightstigmaawareness #fatliberation #bodyliberation #fatpositive #fatpositivity #fatclub #fatacceptance #naafa

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International Fat Super Squad at the 10th Weight Stigma Conference! A great day learning about weight stigma research from lots of different disciplines. Looking forward to tomorrow!

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We asked you for recommendations of the places where you find fat community, solidarity & friendship. These have now been added to our website. Link in bio 🤝

Somewhere missing? Fill out the form on our site to submit a suggestion ♥️

#ytfatfatfriend #yrfatfriendfilm #yourfatfriend #yourfatfriendfilm #fatbabes #fatbabe #fat

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