Social networking giant Instagram has offered an apology to a user after banning her for a photos she proudly displayed of her body.

The former weight loss company spokeswoman was refreshingly unapologetic about her weight at an appearance on a talk show. Actually, Carnie, doctors recommend that you try to keep your fatness below half a fuck. But I admire your chutzpah.

Having caught wind of the Marie Claire controversy, a sorta lousy USA Today story asks, "Is bigger better?" People! That is not the question we should be asking.

Should groups mocking fat people be taken down just as racist and homophobic groups (usually) are? One activist is pushing Facebook to remove such groups, but the company isn't wholly convinced.

I'm a bad fat. I can't lie and say I do the HAES* thing. I don't exercise. The majority of what I eat is junk/fast food and I eat when I'm not really hungry.

I recently undertook a decidedly unscientific experiment to catalog a sample of what messages I get about my body from the world around me in a 24 hour period.

In the wake of Donna Simpson's pledge to become the fattest woman on earth, people who intentionally gain weight are getting more attention. And their politics are problematic to say the least.

In today's Times, writer/blogger Harriet Brown explains how weight stigma can harm people's job prospects, and even their bodies. But commenters still think it's justified — even necessary.

Crystal Renn and Meme Roth are sitting across from one another onstage at the Cooper Union. The screen behind them reads, with the inimitable subtlety of phrasing for which broadcast news is famous, "Is It OK To Be Fat?"

In an interview with True/Slant, Angry Fat Girls author Frances Kuffel gives a perspective we don't usually hear: someone who decries American culture's obsession with thinness, but believes her own weight gain is caused by an "addiction."

Another year, another story about how fat acceptance is going to kill us all. Also deadly: being a size zero.

In a disturbing essay in today's Guardian, Lionel Shriver (not pictured) writes about her brother's obesity, and why she can't fully get on board with fat acceptance.

A recent article about an overweight woman who was told "I'm sorry, but you're too fat" by EasyJet airport security has been denounced as a hoax. However, EasyJet policy does allow workers to "suggest" fat passengers buy two tickets. [Telegraph]

Today, July 31, is the 40th anniversary of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA). In the tumultuous '60s, the organization staged a "Fat-In" which involved eating ice cream "while burning posters of uber-thin model Twiggy."

Today's New York Times "Thursday Styles" section has (another) article about how some people eschew dieting in favor of eating what they want — even if it doesn't make them thin.

"It's basically a diet book that pretends not to be a diet book." — Corinna Tomrley, on Fat Is A Feminist Issue [Obesity Timebomb, via The F-Word]

The Chicago Tribune's Nara Schoenberg has a great profile of writer Kate Harding who, in addition to blogging at Salon, has her own fat-acceptance blog where she's happy to tell people to fuck off.

Two recent stories about "fuller figured" women come from completely different perspectives; one is fat-accepting, one is fat-shaming.