NAAFA-LA Activism

Current Projects

• Bookmark Project: Print and put these bookmarks in diet and/ or self-help books, fashion or fit magazines and anywhere else!
• Letter writing campaign to bring Kayla home
• NAAFA's FLARE defense fund

Prior Projects

• Million Pound March
• Letter writing campaigns to protest sizeist advertisements
• Bookmarking (slipping size-positive bookmarks into books and magazines)
• Appearing on television programs to comment on sizeist, racist, and fatphobic media imagery

Goals

• Battling size-based discrimination in workplaces, healthcare, media, housing, and in everyday discussions
• Educating folks about the myths surrounding dieting, weight loss surgery, and the weight loss industry
• Disproving stereotypes concerning people of all sizes, sexualities, colors, shapes, sexes, and abilities
• Providing legal advocacy for victims of size-based discrimination
• Advocating for universal healthcare
• Fighting for more comfortable, diversity-celebrating physical spaces

Is there something else you’d like to see us do? More topics you’d like for us to address? Let us know!

We welcome new ideas, projects, and persons!