"Shaping the online fat acceptance movement: talking about body image a beauty standards" (Afful and Ricciardelli, April 2015). Like I have mentioned in this sub a few times, I am a sociologist who specializes in criminal justice/criminology. As a master's student at my university, we are expected to do some outside research during the summer when school is not in session. This summer, I chose to study/research the "obesity epidemic" within the sociological literature (some medical literature as well). Normally, most of the studies I read are blocked by paywalls (as most scholarly articles are), but I can access them due to my institutional/professional access license.  There is a good article I read recently that isn't blocked by a paywall....and I think everyone here should take a look at it. It does an excellent job of explaining the FA movement within Canada and the United States (the history, intentions, and philosophy) as well as FA blogs, or as they call it, the "Fatosphere". Here is the link: Shaping the online FA movement Edit: The reason I am posting this is to hear y'all's feedback and to promote discussion around the [idiotic] philosophies of HAES and FA.