About

Welcome to Big Fat Blog!

Big Fat Blog - BFB for short - was founded in August, 2000 and has its roots in size discrimination research I did in college. After giving a lecture on sizism I put my materials on the web... but they soon grew stale. Thankfully there was this new site called Blogger which would allow me to keep the site updated easily, and the rest is history.

Since its inception, BFB has had guest bloggers, co-authors, and contributors, but I've written the majority of what you see here. Also worth noting is that the site's original title was "big fat blog.", with the pretentious period and lowercase and all. Once Big Fat Blog moved to its own domain in 2000, it grew up a bit.

Since then BFB has been recognized as one of the grandpas of the fatosphere, helping in a small way to encourage others to blog about fat acceptance and fat rights. As of February 2008, the site has 2,400 registered members (though many are lurkers or inactive), and averages 65,000 unique visitors each month.

Big Fat Blog still focuses on the media as it did in 2000 but has expanded to support the fatosphere with an events calendar, forums, activism, and lots more. In November, 2007, the first Big Fat Blog Think Tank was held in Chicago, Illinois, and helped launch the Coalition of Fat Rights Activists.

BFB has been featured in many publications and corners of the media including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Orlando Weekly, Australia's The Age, the BBC, MSNBC, CNN, Time, Marie Claire, Figure, and Elastic Waist's The Daily Special.

Your host, Paul McAleer, lives in Chicago.