# BodyPositive? A critical exploration of the body positive movement within physical cultures taking an intersectionality approach

M Griffin, KA Bailey, KJ Lopez - Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Feminist activists and critical sport scholars in the global north have advocated for more
inclusive representation of bodies and more accessible physical cultures. Body positivity, a …

“From the Side, You Should Look like a Japanese Ham Sandwich, No Gap Anywhere”: Exploring Embodied, Linguistic, and Nonlinguistic Signs in Enregisterment …

K Gonçalves - Signs and Society, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article analyzes the semiotic links between embodied, linguistic, and nonlinguistic signs
found in a Bikram yoga studio in Oslo, Norway, and on its website, which are informed by …

'I wanted to share with you some of my healthy habits': YouTubers' staging of health-related practices

M del Rio Carral, L Volpato, C Michoud - Psychology & Health, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Professional YouTubers have become highly popular in producing video content through
self-mediation. Objective. The present article aimed to study ways in which lifestyle …

“Elite but not elitist”: Negotiating race, place, class, and culture in public physical activity spaces

A Carter, M Dao, A Alexander… - Qualitative Research in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study critically examines issues related to race, place, class, and culture within public
physical activity spaces. Drawing on Fairclough's (1992) three-dimensional framework for …

In the wake of canada's violent eugenic legacies: An urgency to ReVision Fitness

KA Bailey, M Bessey, C Rice, E Kelly, TLF McHugh… - Leisure/loisir, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Eugenics is often misunderstood as a historical set of practices that mobilized outside of
canada and ended after World War II. Less is known about canada's influence on and …

Building community or perpetuating inclusionism? The representation of “inclusion” on fitness facility websites

K Aly Bailey, M Griffin, S Habib, N Fayyaz, KJ Lopez… - Leisure/loisir, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Despite mandates for inclusion, fitness spaces are often unwelcoming for bodies of
difference. The disconnect between the formal rules (eg policies) of inclusion and people's …

Revisioning Fitness through a Relational Community of Practice: Conditions of Possibility for Access Intimacies and Body-Becoming Pedagogies through Art Making

M Bessey, KA Bailey, K Besse, C Rice, S Punjani… - Social Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
ReVisioning Fitness is a research project and community of practice (CoP) working to
reconceptualize “fitness” through a radical embrace of difference (eg, trans, non-binary …

Digital technology and mental health: Chinese university students' perspectives on the impact of social media

C Zhang - Health Psychology Research, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background To address the growing concerns about mental health issues among Chinese
university students, our study investigates the impact of social media on their mental health …

(Re) claiming subversive spaces on TikTok: the complexities of body activisms within physical activity cultures

KA Bailey, M Griffin, KJ Lopez, N Fayyaz… - … Research in Sport …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Feminist organising in digital spaces, such as social media, has the potential for activism,
resistance, and visibility; yet these spaces continue to be dominated by narrow body …

[HTML][HTML] # DisabledBodyPositivity: A content analysis of body positive Instagram posts in the disabled community

P Longhurst, EC Woodworth, I Cunha, R Rodgers - Body Image, 2024 - Elsevier
Accumulating research has supported the potential for body positivity content on Instagram
to challenge predominant appearance ideals and promote a healthier body image …