"“Body positivity originates from the fat acceptance movement from the 1960s,” says
Chelsea Kronengold, the manager of communications at the National Eating Disorders Association. “The body positive movement was created by and for people in marginalized bodies, particularly fat, Black, queer, and disabled bodies.” This movement was rooted in social justice; it birthed organizations like
The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, a non-profit fat rights organization that fought and continues to fight against societal anti-fat bias, fatphobia, and systemic fat oppression."
Notice how the writers of articles like this never give specific examples of these BIPOC who first founded the movement, nothing like "In 1962, Shonda Tewsbury founded the We Love Fatties group" ... they just repeat the vague claim that the whole body positivity movement was founded by these unnamed fat, black, gay or disabled people. If they bothered to do any research, they might learn that the founder of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance was Bill Fabrey, a normal-weight heterosexual white man with a fat fetish.