positive.body.project

We are a collective in Milwaukee, WI that supports all body shapes, sizes, and gender identities. We work to end gender-based oppression and advocate for the health and safety of all bodies. We aim to combat the negative messages and images we see everyday with positive ones. We emphasize that no body is normal and beauty comes in different forms.

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.

—Margaret Cho (via crankyskirt)

(via flares-and-slippers)

redefiningbodyimage: So I made this because I have a great distaste for “keep calm” posters and I can’t be the only person who comes across things like this and thinks “well yes but, but…OTHER bodies!!! OTHER genders!!!” So I made it more inclusive. Showing love for only certain types of bodies is expected. Let’s try something new. I propose we redirect our brainwaves to reinforcing the appreciation of all bodies.

redefiningbodyimage:

So I made this because I have a great distaste for “keep calm” posters and I can’t be the only person who comes across things like this and thinks “well yes but, but…OTHER bodies!!! OTHER genders!!!”

So I made it more inclusive.

Showing love for only certain types of bodies is expected. Let’s try something new.

I propose we redirect our brainwaves to reinforcing the appreciation of all bodies.

(via stophatingyourbody)

fuckyeahmelissafabello: Whenever I find shit like this on my dash, I edit it. You get enough thinspo on your dash.  How about happiness-spo? Love your body no matter what.  <3

fuckyeahmelissafabello:

Whenever I find shit like this on my dash, I edit it.

You get enough thinspo on your dash.  How about happiness-spo?

Love your body no matter what.  <3

(via stophatingyourbody)

Meeting tonight!

We are having our first meeting of the semester today in the basement at the UW-Milwaukee’s Gast Haus at 4pm. If you live in the Milwaukee area, come help us organize and brain storm about future projects!

burningmagnolias: A mud-stencil I designed the for the collective I’m in called “Positive Body Project.” We also did the mud-stencils which read, “You’re beautiful it’s society thats fucked.” We’re based out of Milwaukee, WI. Click on the photo to go to our tumblr.

burningmagnolias:

A mud-stencil I designed the for the collective I’m in called “Positive Body Project.” We also did the mud-stencils which read, “You’re beautiful it’s society thats fucked.” We’re based out of Milwaukee, WI. Click on the photo to go to our tumblr.

You believed in the Tooth Fairy once, and Santa. You believed that your parents weren’t people, they were parents, and regular-person rules didn’t apply to them. You believed your heart was shattered for good, and you’d never love again. But you learned, you grew, you changed, and your beliefs changed with you.

It’s time to outgrow the belief that we are somehow inferior because we don’t look a certain way, wear certain things, live certain lives. It’s time to laugh it off when a magazine tells us we need to firm up and slim down, no matter how firm or slim we might already be. It’s time to focus on ourselves, as we are, instead of the selves that somebody else thinks we should be.

Because the secret is out: There is nothing wrong with us. Not a single, solitary thing.