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Five companies dedicated to size-inclusive travel aim to bring community and reassurance to underserved fun seekers

New York Times: A small but growing market is catering to size-inclusive travel.

Five companies dedicated to size-inclusive travel aim to bring community and reassurance to people in bigger bodies.

Vacation is meant to be relaxing, exhilarating and insert all the other positive adjectives you like, but it is often stressful and disappointing. Traveling while fat can be both of those things, as well as dehumanizing and FOMO-inducing. Actually, plus-size travelers don’t just have the fear of missing out; they’ve historically had the near guarantee that they will miss out, thanks to fat bias and societal structures that say we are simply too big to have fun. There are the obviou...

Being insecure about weight brings a whole new dynamic to the dating scene, which is something that influencer Alex Stewart and her friend Nicci Nunez quickly bonded over. The two felt comfortable talking about their dating lives together, which is something they felt they couldn’t always share with their straight-sized friends — what they call...