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Plus size fashion design scholarship with NAAFAExaminer.comFostering an atmosphere for aspiring plus size designers to launch their own line, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) has just ...
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DigitalSpyGabourey Sidibe 'too big for Vogue'DigitalSpySidibe's mother recently defended her daughter's weight while the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance offered the actress its support.and more »
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Fat bias is wrong, but so is complacency about this social epidemicNew Haven Register (subscription)The anti-bias goals of organizations like the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance are laudable, but the connotations in their entirety are not. ...
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Stuff.co.nzGabourey's mum weighs inStuff.co.nzWeight-loss companies and the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) have been bickering over 26 year-old's Sidibe's size. ...and more »
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Confident, truly huge beautiesMacleans.caThere is, naturally, a National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance that takes on anti-fat discrimination cases. The majority of NAAFA members are ...
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HipHopRXKimberly Garrison: Is Sidibe OK at her weight, or obesity's poster girl?Philadelphia InquirerTaking on the critics is the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. An NAAFA spokeswoman, Peggy Howell, told the Hollywood gossip site TMZ.com that ...Did she lose an Oscar because she's FAT?Times of IndiaGabourey Sidibe's Weight Overshadows Her TalentThat's FitHoward Stern Is Incorrect About 'Precious' StarBlack College Wireall 106 news articles »
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San Francisco Chronicle (blog)National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) says Gabourey Sidibe's ...Gather.comThe NAAFA (National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance), yes, that is the actual name of an actual group, said that Gabourey Sidibe's weight is not an ...Oh, here we go: Gaby Sidibe's defenders rally to support their own weight ...Examiner.comThe NAAFA Wants Gabourey Sidibe To Stay Fat!PerezHilton.com (blog)'Fat Acceptance' Organization Claims Sidibe Not Necessarily UnhealthyTheCelebrityCafe.comMonsters and Critics.com -AHN | All Headline News -Why Fameall 215 news articles »
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For Obese People, Prejudice in Plain SightNew York TimesThat story is all too familiar to people like Bill Fabrey, an advocate who in 1969 founded the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. ...and more »
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Figures of speechBoston Globe(To learn more about size acceptance, check out the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, Health at Every Size, and the writing of Paul Campos and ...
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America's Growing Problem: Increasing Levels of Childhood ObesityStudent PulseIn her article “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance,” Mary Ray Worley, a member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, ...
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Excuse Me, Is This Seat Taken?New York Times... against already marginalized fat people,” said Peggy Howell, public relations director at the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, ...and more »
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Kevin Smith 'Fat, And In Trouble,' Says Sun-Times 'Fat Nag'Huffington Post (blog)In fact, Washington quotes the people who make that argument, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. She calls them "acceptance peddlers" ...and more »
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Fat is not a lifestyle choice.Coos Bay WorldOne panelist Peggy Howell, who represented the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, liked the idea. She even said one group of interior designers ...and more »
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...if it's killing you. Did you know that America is blessed with its very own fat lobby? It's called the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. The 41-year-old nonprofit is a "civil rights organization dedicated to protecting the rights and improving...
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Chicago Sun-Times
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Airlines: Pushing Customers and Investors to the BrinkMinyanville.com(The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance is now calling for a Southwest boycott.) Southwest apparently doesn't only discriminate against ...
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New York Daily NewsCNN's Contentious Debate About Kevin Smith And "Too Fat To Fly"Mediaite.com... two opposing fat-related guests: Peggy Howell of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance and Meme Roth of National Action Against Obesity. ...About this author:Seeking Alpha (blog)all 145 news articles »
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New Gurneys Save Firefighters' BacksKCRA SacramentoFor Kitty Toms, a member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, the new electronic gurneys show a recognition that one size doesn't fit all. ...and more »
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Representing the Association for Airline Passenger Rights (AAPR) and National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA), Brandon Macsata appears on Fox News' "Your World Cavuto" to discuss the unfair treatment of Kevin Smith by Southwest Airlines.
Representing the Association for Airline Passenger Rights (AAPR) and National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA), Brandon Macsata appears on cnn's "The Situation Room" to discuss the unfair treatment of Kevin Smith by Southwest Airlines.
Too Fat to Fly?First Coast News... a venue for travel for any person, same as a bus would provide or a taxicab," said Cathy Grinels of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. ...and more »
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...said. "And the seats are getting smaller and the people are getting bigger." NAAFA Calls for Boycott The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance is calling for a Southwest boycott. It issued a statement urging "people of size to seek out and travel...
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ABC News
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...Twiggy. Viva la revolucion. On July 31, the group that congealed out of those early demonstrations the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) is celebrating its 40th anniversary at a national convention in Washington, D.C. The all-volunteer...
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Time Magazine
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...really need two seats, they know it beforehand." But not always, said Peggy Howell, spokeswoman for the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, an advocacy group for overweight people based in Oakland, Calif. "I have personal friends who have been...
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Bradenton Herald
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...Place Fairness YWCA – Young Women’s Christian Association What a collection. (We especially enjoy seeing the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance and the Association for Better Insulation on the list.) But don’t let this roll call mislead you. Health...
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Sweetness & Light
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... The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance took a stance to liberate Jessica Simpson and the media controversy surrounding her, er, ever-budding figure! "Our Organization believes a person's body size is not anyone else's business. Whether or not...
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Radar
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...would rather be divorced than fat, and one in five would rather be childless than fat. Maybe all this is why the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance is in Los Angeles for its big annual press conference Thursday; California has been especially receptive...
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Los Angeles Times
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...word – so long as it's used in the right context. Jo Morley of Big People UK, the British answer to America's National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, said: "We're fat. We're not big boned. We're not overweight. We're fat. A lot of people find the word...
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The Independent
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...Fabrey founded the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA), Oakland, CA, in 1969 as a way to promote the acceptance of overweight Americans in society and the media. With a team of volunteers, the association provides information to its members...
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Associated Content
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...loss and reinforce prejudice," says "FAT!SO?" author Marilyn Wann, San Francisco-based board member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. "On the Shaq show (Shaquille O'Neal's "Shaq's Big Challenge' on ABC), the kids are all trying to be thin,"...
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Asbury Park Press
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...and reinforce prejudice," says "FAT!SO?" author Marilyn Wann, San Francisco-based board member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. "On the Shaq show (Shaquille O'Neal's `Shaq's Big Challenge' on ABC), the kids are all trying to be thin,"...
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Buffalo News
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By Robert Y. Chang Purchase film: www.der.org In a culture obsessed with fat, there are groups of "fat activists" who attempt to change what they see as a fat-phobic world into a size-accepting world. These fat activists span the political and religious spectrum, yet come together around their commitment to ending "size discrimination." Nothing to Lose presents the activities of the local New York chapter of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) as they advance their platform through engagements with mass-media, dissemination of information, and creative local actions. By adopting the provocative position that linking fat with ill-health is misguided and legitimizes prejudicial attitudes and behavior toward those with fat bodies, Nothing to Lose is a film that encourages its viewers to rethink the stereotypes and assumptions they hold about body size.
span the political and religious spectrum, yet come together around their commitment to ending "size discrimination." Nothing to Lose presents the activities of the local New York chapter of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) as they advance their platform through engagements with mass-media, dissemination of information, and creative local actions. By adopting the provocative position that linking fat with ill-health is misguided and legitimizes prejudicial attitudes ...
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...this country but remain among the most misunderstood, according to Peggy Howell. Howell, spokeswoman for the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, acknowledges that two-thirds of American adults are now considered either overweight or obese but says...
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Miami.com
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...to live a healthy life. "Normal-weight people don't get this," said Berman, who is a member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. "Even fat people don't get it. I've come to learn it's a chronic disease and there's no magic pill....
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ABC News
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...as they are, not as others would have them be. As Sandy Schaffer, the director of the New York chapter of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, put it, "Why allow somebody to say, 'You can't do this until you lose weight'?" "There might be a...
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New York Times Travel
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