Editing Fat acceptance movement (section)

===First wave===
First wave activities consisted of isolated activists drawing attention to the dominant model of [[obesity]] and challenging it as only one of several possible models.  This kind of political climate was the background of the fat acceptance movement, which originated in the late 1960s. Like other [[social movements]] from this period, the fat acceptance movement, initially known as "Fat Pride", "Fat Power", or "Fat Liberation", often consisted of people acting in an impromptu fashion. A "fat-in" was staged in New York's Central Park in 1967.<ref>{{cite news |title=Curves Have Their Day in Park; 500 at a 'Fat-in' Call for Obesity |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 5, 1967 |page=54 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9900E0DC133AE63ABC4D53DFB066838C679EDE}}</ref> Called by radio personality Steve Post, the "Fat-in" consisted of a group of 500 people eating, carrying signs and photographs of [[Twiggy]] (a model famous for her thin figure), and burning diet books.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1913858,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803084214/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1913858,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 3, 2009 |magazine=Time |title=The Fat-Acceptance Movement |first=Dan |last=Fletcher |date=2009-07-31}}</ref>

In 1967, Lew Louderback wrote an article in the ''Saturday Evening Post'' called "More People Should be FAT" in response to discrimination against his wife. The article led to a meeting between Louderback and William Fabrey, who went on to found the first organization for fat people and their supporters, originally named the 'National Association to Aid Fat Americans' and currently called the [[National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance]] (NAAFA). NAAFA was founded in America, in 1969, by Bill Fabrey in response to discrimination against his wife. He primarily intended it to campaign for fat rights, however, a reporter attending the 2001 NAAFA conference notes that few attendees were active in fat rights politics and that most women came to shop for fashion, wear it on the conference catwalk or to meet a potential partner.<ref>{{cite book |last=Saggy |first=Abigail |title=What's Wrong With Fat? |year=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0199857081 |page=55 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7_kVC1XP05MC&pg=PA55}}</ref> Since 1991, Fabrey has worked as a director with the Council on Size and Weight Discrimination, specializing in the history of the size acceptance movement.<ref>{{cite web |title=Council Directors and Project Managers |url=http://cswd.org/bill-fabrey |publisher=Council on Size & Weight Discrimination |access-date=2017-09-25}}</ref>

In 1972, the feminist group The Fat Underground was formed.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1913858,00.html |title=The Fat-Acceptance Movement |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |first=Dan |last=Fletcher |date=31 July 2009}}</ref> It began as a radical chapter of NAAFA and spun off to become independent when NAAFA expressed concerns about its promotion of a stronger activist philosophy.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.radiancemagazine.com/issues/1998/winter_98/fat_underground.html |title=Life In The Fat Underground by Sara Fishman |publisher=Radiancemagazine.com |access-date=2011-12-31}}</ref> The FU were inspired by and, in some cases, members of the Radical Therapy Collective, a [[feminist]] group that believed that many psychological problems were caused by oppressive social institutions and practices. Founded by Sara Fishman (then Sara Aldebaran) and [[Judy Freespirit]], the Fat Underground took issue with what they saw as a growing bias against obesity in the scientific community. They coined the saying, "a diet is a cure that doesn't work, for a disease that doesn't exist".<ref>[http://www.largesse.net/Archives/FU/index.html The Fat Underground<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021226042434/http://www.largesse.net/Archives/FU/index.html|date=2002-12-26}}, largesse.net{{full citation needed|date=April 2014}}</ref> Shortly afterward, Fishman moved to Connecticut, where, along with Karen Scott-Jones, she founded the New Haven Fat Liberation Front, an organization similar to the Fat Underground in its scope and focus.<ref>{{cite news |author=Swatek, Randall|date=March 12, 1978 |title=Fat Times in New Haven |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/12/archives/connecticut-weekly-fat-times-in-new-haven.html |access-date=May 31, 2022}}</ref> In 1983, the two groups collaborated to publish a seminal book in the field of fat activism, ''Shadow on a Tightrope'', which collected several fat activist position papers initially distributed by the Fat Underground, as well as poems and essays from other writers.<ref>{{cite book |last=Simic |first=Zora |editor=Caroline Walters |others=Helen Hester |title=Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dVjUCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT28 |year=2015 |publisher=Ashgate |isbn=9781472432568 |page=28ff |chapter=Far as a Feminist Issue: A History}}</ref>

In 1979, Carole Shaw coined the term [[Big Beautiful Woman]] (BBW) and launched a fashion and lifestyle magazine of the same name aimed at [[plus-size clothing|plus-sized]] women.<ref>{{cite web |title=BBW Past and Present |url=http://www.bbwmagazine.com/bbw-past-present/ |publisher=Big Beautiful Woman Magazine |access-date=2017-09-25 |date=2014-08-15}}</ref> The original print magazine ceased publication in May 2003, but continued in various online formats.  The term "BBW" has become widely used to refer to any fat woman (sometimes in a derogatory way).  Several other periodicals focusing on fashion and lifestyle for "fuller-figured" women were published in print from the early 1980s to the mid 2010s.<!-- - see details within the media section of the wiki article for [[Plus-size model]].--> From 1984 to 2000, ''Radiance: The Magazine for Large Women'' was published in print to "support women 'all sizes of large in living proud, full, active lives, at whatever weight, with self-love and self-respect."<ref>{{Cite news |title=About Radiance |work=Radiance: The Magazine for Large Women |editor-last=Ansfield |editor-first=Alice |type=Print Magazine |url=http://www.radiancemagazine.com |access-date=July 21, 2022}}</ref>

In the UK, the London Fat Women's Group was formed, the first British fat activist group, and was active between approximately 1985 and 1989.<ref name="cooper"/> Other first wave activities included the productions of [[zines]] such as ''Figure 8'' and ''Fat!So?'' by [[Marilyn Wann]]. The latter went on to become a [[FAT!SO?|book of the same name]].