“Embracing our bodies, Owning our power, and Reclaiming our space”
WHO WE ARE
Welcome to The Black Body Liberation Collective! Our collective is a group of dynamic individuals all advocating for body liberation and racial justice specifically within the spaces of mental health, fitness, nutrition, body image, eating disorder treatment and recovery. Now, we have joined together to build our own community within the fields that have historically excluded our voices.
Our Mission
We aim to amplify Black people within the collective, specifically fat, queer, trans, non-binary, disabled, neurodivergent Black people in areas such as: speaking engagements, podcasts, panels, and any other opportunities, including but not limited to topics around anti-Blackness, fatphobia and other areas of marginalization that we may experience.
We aim to provide a space that is anti-colonial, anti-racist, anti-oppressive and is divested from capitalist values.
We embed in practice a grassroots community-based healing justice framework. To us, healing justice means creating space where we are able to liberate our ideas of health and healing from what we have been conditioned to believe through systematic oppression. It also means us having all the space we need to feel alive and free in our own bodies, and institutions that reflect the wholeness of who we are and who we can become. The goal is for collective liberation, not from trying to achieve an ideal created by a mainstream that excludes and erases us.