Fat Liberation and Photography with Lindley Ashline - EFTROU: S2, Ep2

Embodiment for the Rest of Us - Season 2, Episode 2: Lindley Ashline

 

Chavonne (she/her) and Jenn (she/her) interviewed Lindley Ashline (she/her) about her embodiment journey. 

 

Lindley Ashline creates photographs that celebrate the unique beauty of bodies that fall outside conventional "beauty" standards. She fights weight stigma by giving fat people a safe place to explore how their bodies look on camera and by increasing the representation of fat bodies in photography, advertising, fine art and the world at large.

 

Lindley is also the creator of Body Liberation Stock (body-positive stock images for commercial use) and the Body Love Shop (a curated resource for body-friendly products and artwork). Find Lindley's work and get her free weekly Body Liberation Guide at http://bit.ly/bodyliberationguide.

 

Website: http://www.bodyliberationphotos.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bodyliberationwithlindley/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bodyliberationphotos/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lindleyashline

 

Content Warning: discussion of privilege, discussion of diet culture, mention of mental health struggles, mention of trauma and complex trauma, discussion of healthism, mention of unintentional weight loss, discussion of internalized fatphobia

 

Trigger Warnings:

58:45: Jenn discusses her internalized fatphobic messages

1:02:48: Lindley discusses harmful stereotypes about fat people

 

The captions for this episode can be found at https://embodimentfortherestofus.com/season-2/season-2-episode-2-lindley-ashline/#captions/

 

A few highlights:

4:13: Lindley shares her understanding of embodiment and her own embodiment journey

37:37: Lindley discusses how the pandemic has affected her devotion to embodiment, what lights her up up on a regular basis to feel embodied how to make this accessible for everyone

1:26:15: Lindley discusses her understanding of “the rest of us” and how she is a part of that, as well as her privileges

1:29:44: Lindley discusses fat liberation, body liberation, and photography 

1:46:22: Lindley shares how listeners can make a difference based on this conversation

1:54:14: Lindley shares where to be found and what’s next for her

Links from this episode:

ADHD

Alan Levinovitz

Autism

Brene Brown

Bri Campos

Fatness Spectrum

Fearing the Black Body

Harm Reduction

Lindley’s Definitions of Liberation

Lindley’s Medium Article about Photoshopping

Neurodivergence

 

Here is some info about what went on since March of 2022 regarding HAES® and the book’s author, including direct harm of our interviewee: here, here, here, and here among others (with updates to some of those here and here).

 

Music: “Bees and Bumblebees (Abeilles et Bourdons​)​, Op. 562” by Eugène Dédé through the Creative Commons License

 

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