About

Welcome to Big Fat Blog!

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

Since its inception, BFB has had guest bloggers, co-authors, and contributors, but the majority of the content was written by Paul. In April 2009, Carrie Padian of The Fat Rights Coalition took over content creation and daily management of the site. BFB 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.

BFB has been recognized as one of the grandparents of the fatosphere, helping in a small way to encourage others to blog about fat acceptance and fat rights. As of August 2008, the site has 2,700 registered members (though many are lurkers or inactive), and averages 65,000 unique visitors each month.

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.