International Size Acceptance Association

The International Size Acceptance Association (ISAA) is a United States based non-governmental organization (NGO) aimed at advancing fat acceptance, directed by Allen Steadham. Unlike the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA), the organisation has an international slant, and has several overseas branches, though many of its operations remain within the U.S. at present.

The current people are prominent in the association at present:

The ISAA has branches in the following locations.

Branches within the United States:

Branches outside the United States:

Also, ISAA has an alliance with Allegro Fortissimo of France.

ISAA strongly encourages members and prospective members to set up branches in their own area.

ISAA is dedicated to size acceptance and bringing an end to what it feels is unfair discrimination against large people. Its mission is "to promote Size Acceptance and fight size discrimination throughout the world by means of advocacy and visible, lawful actions".

ISAA has adopted a position of opposition to weight loss surgery (WLS) as dangerous and unnecessary, and conducted a campaign against it in 2001. This is shared in common with most other size/fat acceptance organisations, though campaigns have met with relatively limited success.

ISAA also opposed the definition by the U.S. government of obesity as a disease, though it was ultimately unsuccessful in preventing this. Other policies and positions include:

ISAA does not have the mass scale of some more mainstream NGOs, and as such does not maintain a great deal of printed publications. Much of the organisation is centered on online campaigns and information, and media interviews. The main publication that the association runs is the online magazine "Without Measure" and associated group blog "WOM Beta".

This is maintained and edited by Grace Moredock, ISAA's Secretary. A new addition is usually published around twice a year, though it is not regular. Early on the publication was offered for download via PDF format, though since 2001 has been published actually online in HTML. The length of the publications varies dramatically from less than 10 pages to more than 30.

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