Pretty Good for a Fat Girl: What Liberation Looks Like

Your amazement is the product of cultural conditioning that has led you to believe that fat bodies are less capable than thin bodies. Deeper than that even is the belief that it is a good, kind thing to praise the fat body when it shows any sign of physical prowess. After all, a fat body that breaks from the "lazy and undisciplined" stereotype imposed on it should be encouraged to keep going. If it is not encouraged, then how could it ever be expected to produce the coveted outcome of thinness?

Sarah StevensApril 14, 2018

A Letter from the Founder: All the Bodies Belong

I have a thin friend. Well, technically, I have more than one, but only one of them is in this story. This friend had asked me to lunch and prefaced our meeting by telling me that she really wanted to talk about The Project. This friend is petite and stunning in all of the classically beautiful ways that women have been deemed stunning for most of modern history. She is representative of the kind of woman who I thought would be the last person in the world to find The Beautifull Project appealing.

Sarah StevensMarch 3, 2018

The Makings of a Manifesto: Fat Women, Skinny Girls and a Chorus of Courage

"Leave your pain here. Now go out and do your magnificent things." This was an invitation uttered by Judge Rosemarie Aquilina to the survivors in that courtroom. This is also my invitation to you. Because the beautiful things belong to you. You were most certainly made for the magnificent.

The BlogSarah StevensFebruary 18, 2018wellness, #befull, fat positivity, body positivity, fyourfitsop

Good Enough: Taking Shit Back

Or as it turns out, a virtuous girl who wasn't quite virtuous enough because she forgot to get rid of that fat on her thighs, leaving her only with enough virtue to be deemed "pretty good". And in my world, pretty good is never good enough.

The BlogSarah StevensFebruary 2, 2018

Beauty to Bullshit: The Breakup Story

A story about amphetamines. And the world I want to leave for my daughter. And a culture that turns every pound into a moral imperative.

The BlogSarah StevensJanuary 3, 2018#BeFull

It's Not You, It's Me: The Day I Broke Up with Gravity

I broke up with the scale. And wrote a letter to say good bye to a life that required me to shrink.

The BlogSarah StevensJanuary 3, 2018#BeFullComment