The Stand For Self-Love | Amy Pence-Brown | TEDxBoise
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- Amy Pence-Brown is a fat feminist mother who believes in opening her mouth and her heart. From both of these places she tells a powerful story of vulnerability, courage, and body positivity and the importance of taking a stand for something you believe in. As a body image activist, Pence-Brown became famous in 2015 for her radical stand for self-love in a black bikini and a blindfold in Boise, Idaho, which was documented in a blog post, photographs and a video viewed over 130 million times.
Pence-Brown is a writer and tells stories on her blog {www.amypencebrown.com} and other local & national publications, as a historian giving tours for Preservation Idaho, and as a visual artist creating subversive stitchings and performance pieces. As an activist, her message about the value of all bodies, no matter their size, has been covered by numerous media outlets, including CNN, USA Today, Cosmopolitan, People, TODAY, Huffington Post, Upworthy, HLN, WGN Morning News Chicago, the Dr. Oz show, Idaho Statesman, NPR and SHAPE magazine.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
Amy you are amazing!
I do appreciate the message of loving ourselves, including our bodies, whatever size and shape. But my concern is that overweight and obesity can be a health issue. (My family has a history of diabetes and heart health issues.) Please understand, this is not a negative or a put down but a concern.
Both my Mother and my Mother-in-Law struggled with loving and appreciating their bodies. My Mum weighted over 300 lbs and struggled with accepting her body size but she was the most loving mother I have known (yes, I am bias) and many others, beside my siblings, would agree. She cared about children, all children. My Mother-in-Law was slim and tall (an ideal size for a woman, size 6 and 5' 7") but she struggled with keeping on weight and felt that she was too thin. She told me (when she was in her 70s) that a boy teased her in high school telling her in a demeaning way she was skinny. Even decades later, she never was able to overcome that teasing about her body. My body size is somewhere in between my Mom and my Mother-in-Law and I appreciate this message of accepting ourselves and our bodies, especially as woman, and to be self-compassionate.
My Mom died when she was 72 years old, (she was active in volunteering her church and community until a few months before she passed away) and my Mother-in-Law died when she was 90 years old. My Mum died early but she was a loving and caring woman, my Mother-in-Law lived a long live but was always complaining and unhappy in her senior years. We do need to be concerned about our physical health but more important is to be concerned about our inner happiness.
Artists can't even define beauty and society suddenly knows the definition for beauty?!
Great talk!
Excelent ! A beautiful Lady !❤
Amazingly powerful talk!
Thank you for your courage!❤️
You're a great body-positive activist and I enjoyed your TED talk!
Thank you, Amy. You've been "disciplined" by Facebook. You are empowering me. Thank you.
I love your Instagram and Facebook. You inspire me every day.
You're so incredibly inspiring! Thank you for sharing your bravery and self-love with the world...so we too can learn to love ourselves.
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Great talk, Amy. I'm so proud to know you!
Thank you, Esther! Likewise.
Yes and more yes. Thank you for telling your story, Amy! You're going to make the trolls so angry. :)
You are fantastic Amy!
Intelligent and inspiring - nice job Amy.
Frankly, She is exactly what I look for physically in a woman.
Proud to call you comrade!
She has the Karen haircut