This document discusses body acceptance and cycling. It contains images and quotes about body shapes, cycling, and confidence. The main messages are that 1) people come in all shapes and sizes just like dogs, so society should accept people of all sizes, and 2) cycling can boost confidence regardless of body type. Riding with friends and following safety rules are encouraged. Overall it promotes body positivity and enjoying cycling.

1. Fat Bottomed Girls – Body Acceptance and Riding Bikes

2. Go on, tell the class,
is the girl you picked…
Skinny or fat?
Flaca o gorda?

3. Visualize smooth flip
turns, fast back stroke
and stand SKINNY!

4. “I'd be grossed out if I had to watch
them [Mike & Molly] doing anything. To
be brutally honest, even in real life, I find
it aesthetically displeasing to watch a
very, very fat person simply walk across
a room.”
Maura Kelly, Marie Claire

5. www.definatalie.com

7. I’m a PUG not an Italian
Greyhound!
If dogs are meant to be
different shapes and sizes,
maybe people are too.
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11. “Biking, on my old school Schwinn
Varsity, has given me something that
being an entrepreneur did not.
“Confidence.”
Leah Jones, Accidentally Jewish

12. Fuck yeah, Girls and Bikes

16. www.flickr.com/photos/randyweiner/3808313927/

17. My Rules for Urban Cycling
• Wear a helmet!
• Signal turns!
• Light up the bike!
• Wave to drivers!
• Ride bikes with friends!

18. My Rules for Body Acceptance
• Keep reading great books!
• Shop at stores where I’m treated like a
queen!
• Don’t criticize other women’s bodies!
• Hang out with people who accept their
bodies!

19. From Tour De Fat in Denver

20. Leah Jones aka @chicagoleah