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Linda Bacon, a body positivity activist, launches the HAES's webpage and spurs a digital activist movement encouraging people and medical practitioners to stop using weight and BMI as the sole barometers of health. Here is the HAES website.
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Body positivity support network Proud2BeMe, part of the National Eating Disorder Association's network, launches digitally in the Netherlands and spreads to the US. More information is available here.
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The Body Positive, an activist and support group founded in 1996, debuts their webpage and creates an online presence. More information about The Body Positive can be found here.
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Blogger Jes Baker from The Militant Baker makes a splash in the body positive bloggging community by writing an open letter to Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries about his fatphobic policies and remarks.
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BodyPosi activist, blogger, and plus-size model Tess Holliday makes history by being the first plus-size model at a size 22 to be signed to a major modeling agency. Here is an article about her accomplishment and body positive stance.
