Jillian Michaels
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I didn't.
But some of the people who started body positivity and practice it today and talk about the values that have meaning for them.
I don't think anybody sees it that way.
That is not a part of the movement.
I think the general presumption
The general presumption is that it must focus on weight and weight loss because that's a bigger narrative in the culture than some of the other stuff.
But that is who we are seeing advocate.
We're not seeing a person who's black being like, I'm body positive because I'm black.
They're generally in a different civil rights movement.
I think that discounts the black leadership in this movement, right?
And it's an intersectional movement where we do talk about these things.
I very rarely see people of color simply based on prejudice regarding their skin color
using body positivity to make their point.
I see them, this is a movement, I see people who are.
You see people who have multiple identities that include their skin color, their gender presentation, their disability, talking about body positivity related to their body size and those other issues.
We had somebody else earlier talk about that.
I just, I've never seen it in all the years.
Like, I've seen activists.
I mean, has anybody else here seen that?
What you started, what you started, right?