A fat chat with the activist and podcaster, and director Jeanie Finlay.

Showing skin can be seen as two different acts. “One can be deemed as sinful and the other as ‘mana’ full.”

The Ensemble team unbox their obsession, and complicated childhood history, with Barbie, Sindy, Bratz and more.

'The striking confidence and blasé carefree attitudes of my friends made me realise that I’d regret it if I didn’t bare all and join them.'

"My grandmother called her stomach her bread basket... a nice way of reframing the tummy as a holder of all things that are good."

Over the last year, my body has changed so dramatically I sometimes don’t recognise it.

“I think being queer really saved me from being too prey to the pressures of normative beauty ideals.”

Even those of us who do feel like we are body positive can have internal biases and behaviours that need addressing.

Is it possible for a company to be genuine about ‘body positive’ messaging when it is profiting off of young women’s insecurities?

Most of us have experienced hair trauma at some point. For some, the issue is much more complex than others.

For environmental advocate Brianna Fruean, dance is both a portal to the past and a physical way to present hope for the future.

In an image-obsessed world where thin is the norm, being unapologetically fat, like the late Dr Cat Pausé, is a radical feminist act.