What is fat liberation?

Fat liberation is a movement dedicated to the liberation of all kinds of fat bodies. Historically, fat people have been made the butt of jokes, made to feel unattractive, and excluded from society as a result of lack of accommodation. The fat liberation movement aims to rid the world of intolerance toward fat bodies, and its core values center around acceptance, respect, advocacy, and inclusion.

Fat liberation envisions a world in which all fat people have equal rights and equitable accommodations in society (such as accessible seating, bathrooms, and other facilities).

What is feedism?

Feedism is an often sexual fixation involving the consumption of food. It often involves the incorporation of other kinks, such as weight gain, stuffing, body worship, and occasionally more risky kinks such as voyeurism, dynamics of control, and others.

Feedism most commonly consists of a dynamic between a “feeder” and “feedee”, which are the roles of someone who feeds another person and someone who is fed by another person, respectively.

What are Feedists for Fat Liberation (F4FL)?

Feedists for fat liberation is a movement combining fat liberation with individuals who practice or take interest in feedism.

Feedists for fatlib (or F4FL) is much like the plain fat liberation movement, except with an added emphasis on advocacy, safe kink practices, and general fatlib awareness.

My personal experiences:

As you may know, I was huge into comic strips as a little kid, I would go to the library and check out stacks of comic book treasuries and thumb my way through each and every one. Though I was too young to understand some of the jokes, I read each and every one with love. My two favorite comic book characters were Cathy Andrews from “Cathy”, and Garfield from “Garfield”. The reason I bring this up is because my first introduction to being aware of my own fatness came from reading comic strips.

When I was little, I came across two comic strips that affected my perception of my body at an exceptionally young age. I have a vivid memory of sitting in the library reading comic after comic of Cathy calling herself fat and discussing clothing and diets. I was excited, because even at a young age, I understood the inconveniences of living in a fat body. Then I flipped to the back of the book to see a photo of the author, and I remember being annoyed at how thin she was. I wondered how someone with such a thin body can tap into the “fat mindset”. This was long before I understood the concept of dysmorphia.

The other comic was a week-long storyline of Garfield celebrating “fat week”. I came to realize that this was a recurring storyline in the Garfield universe, and that this orange cat was not only accepting, but proud of his shape. I know it sounds so silly that a little drawing of an orange cat can make one so proud of one’s body, but it made me feel proud to be as big as I was, and introduced me to the concept of saying “I’m here. Deal with it!”

Introduction to feedism

When I was young and had unrestricted internet access, I came across a wonderful fanfiction featuring feedism as the main kink. For those of you interested, it was “Team Mother” on A03. It took a varied approach to feedism, focusing less on the definition, and more on the feeding. This fanfic deeply affected me because it was so vivid in its descriptions and depictions of eating and feeding and more.

I once went on a date with a man who was into feeding, he spoke with me about it, and I was intrigued, but at the time I did not want to follow through with it, because of a mixture of my sexuality being trapped in the orb of confusion, and a hesitancy to gain weight as I am already pretty heavy myself. He ghosted me anyways, shrug emoji.

I was “reintroduced” to feedism and realized that I enjoyed it on a deeper level when I stumbled across another fic, this time written by a “Zaftcraft” on A03, and have been lucky enough to discuss it with them. They are the reason I am making this page actually. Thanks buddy! ^_^

My relationship with feedism, fatlib and myself

Is being your own feeder a thing? It must be, but there is not a term for it. I partially consider myself to be my own feeder. Just throwing this out here in case anyone else experiences this and would like to discuss it further.

Fat liberation makes me proud to be myself, and makes me hopeful that I can live to see a world with multiple accommodations for people of any and every size, and a widespread attitude of acceptance. I believe I am doing my part by being proud of myself.

That's about all I have to say tbh. Maybe I will add more later.