Pen-Elayne on the Web

Celebrating Women - 29 March 2004

Alas, it's still news whenever an ad campaign decides to use real women instead of stick figures. Plus, we large gals tend to make less money and, via Len Cleavelin, sometimes even occupations that have been havens for fat women in the past can become discriminatory.

Here are some link pages for websites working to change the perception (including self-perception) of fat women:

Uppity Women's fat positive book list and other fat positive links

SeaFATtle's fat acceptance link page

Mama Sutra's fat acceptance and body esteem link page

FaT GiRL's link page

Tish Parmeley at Fatshadow probably has more; it's hard to Google on "fat" and "women" without getting fetishistic sex pages.