A movement based around the idea that people can be healthy and beautiful at any size. The movement is generally accepted as having started in 1969 with the founding of NAAFA by Bill Fabrey.
Noteable groups in the movement's history include the New Haven
Fat Liberation Front and the
Fat Underground in Los Angeles, both of which were active in the seventies. More recently, NOLOSE (formerly the National Organization for Lesbians of SizE), NAAFA and the Council on Size and Weight Discrimination have been in the vanguard of the
fat activism movement.
Some important figures in the history of the
fat lib movement include Bill Fabrey, Karen
Scott-Jones (now Karen Stimson), Aldebaran (now
Sara Fishman) and Lynn McAfee.
More recent figures in the movement include Marilyn Wann, author of the zine
Fat!So?, Nomy Lamm, author of the zine I'm So Fucking Beautiful, and Stacy
Bias, founder of FatGirl Speaks, a grassroots
fat empowerment conference held in Portland every year.