Adipositivity255 & IMPORTANT SECURITY WARNING
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HORSESHIT ALERT!
Couple things have come to my attention, making it necessary to issue the following warning. If you exchange correspondence with 'Adipositivity' or 'Substantia Jones' on MySpace or Facebook, or via any email address other than the one below, you're not communicating with me.
I'm aware there's an Adipositivity fan page on Facebook with a number of folks registered. The page's owner seems like a lovely young woman (thank you to those who helped me find her), so I'm not worried about that. G'head and join up. It's probably good for spreading the word.
However.
Someone has reported being hit up on MySpace by a 'Substantia Jones,' asking her to model. This scares the bejeezus outta me. So please note, and spread (ahem) widely, I will only write to you through 'adipositivity ahhht gmail dawwt com,' and that's how you should reach me. Easy as hitting the 'contact' link over there on the left. Yes, I'm slow to respond, but I have many other charming qualities.
I'm sure there'll come a day when I'll get with the social networking thing, but for now, my social networking consists of emails from my posse telling me where we're playing Rock Band this weekend, and who's bringing what.
*Shout out to my Jiggle Jihad!*
I now return you to your regularly scheduled fat ladies brushing horses whilst naked and stuff....
Adipose: Of or relating to fat.
Positivity: Characterized by or displaying acceptance or affirmation.
MISSION:
The Adipositivity Project aims to promote size acceptance, not by listing the merits of big people, or detailing examples of excellence (these things are easily seen all around us), but rather, through a visual display of fat physicality. The sort that's normally unseen.
The hope is to widen definitions of physical beauty. Literally.
The photographs here are close details of the fat female form, without the inclusion of faces. One reason for this is to coax observers into imagining they're looking at the fat women in their own lives, ideally then accepting them as having aesthetic appeal which, for better or worse, often translates into more complete forms of acceptance.
The women you see in these images are educators, executives, mothers, musicians, professionals, performers, artists, activists, clerks, and writers. They are perhaps even the women you've clucked at on the subway, rolled your eyes at in the market, or joked about with your friends.
This is what they look like with their clothes off.
Some are showing you their bodies proudly. Others timidly. And some quite reluctantly. But they all share a determination in altering commonly accepted notions of a narrow and specific beauty ideal.
Bookmark adipositivity.com and check back often, as new photographs are added regularly(ish). And please help spread the message. The Adipositivity Project: Changing attitudes about the aesthetic validity of big women, one fat fanny at a time.
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER:
Substantia Jones’ photography has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the US East Coast, and has appeared in The New York Times, Time Out New York, and some other publications she can’t recall at this time, but you probably haven’t heard of them anyway. She is biographied in the 2006 Who’s Who in America (though under the name her momma gave her), and back in the day, she won some photography awards which would sound somewhat Mayberry if listed here, but at the time, they damn near made her cry. Still kinda do.
She lives in Manhattan, where she also sometimes steps out (more like lays around) in front of the camera, and on some of those occasions, the snapping is done by her trusty sidekick, Dr. H, who also fetches her banana popsicles and maintains her muse, a certain pancake colored dog who’s asked that his name not be mentioned on the Internet.
Ms. Jones likes crispy calamari, Squidbillies, and the ika okonomiyaki from Otafuku in the East Village, if only the lines weren’t so long.
ANNOUNCING: TAP Shop is now open!
To mark the first 100 Adipositivity Project images and to answer those who've asked for T-shirts, calendars, and posters, a CafePress shop has been set up with the requested items, as well as mugs, bumper stickers, mousepads and greeting cards. Yeah. Went a little crazy there. So go get your merch on!
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Except for babies. Make all o' them you want.
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