Definitions
Fatphobia
Race
Gender and Attraction
Disability
Media and Commerce
Embodying Body Positivity
100
What one believes about their body, how one feels about their body, and how one experiences their body through their senses
What is body image?
100
the framework from which people can pursue health from a weight-neutral perspective
Health At Every Size
100
Black people are regularly discriminated against based on the texture and style of this physical feature
What is hair?
100
embodying a different gender than the one you were assigned at birth
What is being transgender, genderqueer, and/or nonbinary?
100
the word used to describe both individual prejudice against as well as the system oppression of disabled people
What is ableism?
100
the word to describe seeing a variety of identities in media
What is representation?
100
the psychological process of purposely bringing one's attention to the present moment without judgment
What is mindfulness?
200
the study of the mind and its functions
What is psychology?
200
Attempt to “improve” humankind by only letting certain people have babies so that the “inferior” people will die out
What is eugenics?
200
the power structure that positions white bodies as superior to bodies of other bodies
What is white supremacy?
200
the hatred of/prejudice toward women (cis, trans, and NB) and femininity in general
What is misogyny?
200
the oppressive model of disability which locates the problem of disability within the individual and relies on medicine to "fix" disabled people
What is the Medical Model?
200
$15,000
the average amount of money the American woman will spend on makeup over the course of her life
200
awareness of internal body sensations
What is introceptive awareness?
300
the study of society and societal problems
What is sociology?
300
Along with protestant Christianity, this historical atrocity led to the adoption of the thin ideal in North America
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
300
the discrimination within one race based on skin pigmentation
What is colourism?
300
a society in which men hold the power
What is patriarchy?
300
the term to denote mental illness as a social justice issue rather than an individual problem/failing
What is madness?
300
the economic system which promotes profit at the expense of people's body image and safety
What is capitalism?
300
power, consequences, and intent
What are three main factors to consider when responding to harmful body talk?
400
prejudice + power
What is oppression?
400
the Rennaisance painter known for depicting heavier, fleshier women in his works
Who was Peter Paul Rubens?
400
Informally known as ebonics, this vernacular is specific to Black communities and has its own grammatical structure
What is African American Vernacular English (AAVE)?
400
the attraction orientation of a person who is rarely attracted to others and only to people of genders other than their own
What is gray-hetero attraction?
400
wild, absurd, ignorant, short, silly, boring, uncool
What are alternatives to common ableist language?
400
the three forces of "symbolic annihilation"
What are omission, trivialization, and condemnation?
400
the practice of sharing your platform/audience/privilege with a marginalized person so that their message can be received more widely
What is "passing the mic"?
500
A term coined by Kimberle Crenshaw, this is the interconnectedness of identity
What is intersectionality?
500
the phenomenon of fat people living longer than "normal weight" people
What is the Obesity Paradox?
500
the psychological study which had children choose between two racialized toys
What is the Doll Test?
500
when movies and television shows imbue certain characters (often villains) with stereotypically queer characteristics in order to signal that they are abnormal or bad
What is queercoding?
500
the cooler, wiser baby of the Social Model of Disability, this model recognizes the role of physical impairment within the disability community but still locates the problem of disability in society
What is the Human Rights Model?
500
~$675 billion
predicted 2020 earnings for the global beauty market
500
one way to respond to rude comments about your body
What is laughing, rejecting, neutrally acknowledging, employing your secret phrase, etc?