I'm going to post a couple links to sources for the next couple days to hopefully start a conversation in this space! These will fall in the area of Fat Studies and there's some norms you should be aware of:

  • "fat" is taken as a neutral descriptor, think of it as reclaiming the word.
  • "obese" arbitrarily medicalises fatness and Others fat people

I'm a cis man and I have (had) body image issues (in the past)

https://humanparts.medium.com/my-journey-toward-radical-body-positivity-3412796df8ff

I'm queer and fat

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yeefpijtl4s7orv/Flaunting%20Fat%20%E2%80%93%C2%A0Sex%20with%20the%20Lights%20On.pdf?dl=0

I'm queer and not fat

https://www.bitchmedia.org/post/fat-liberation-is-totally-queer

The others don't apply to me and/or I only have the energy/time to read one source

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/

:sankara-salute:

👉 Part 2 is up

👉 Part 3 is up

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      BMI is kinda silly because it is very reductive. Someone may have a high BMI just because they are jacked.

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Lol for real tho, Richard Froning Jr is supposed to be the fittest man alive or whatever and his BMI is almost 29, which puts him at overweight, close to "obese", because, well, he's basically really buff and muscles weigh a lot.

    • Exorcistbreakdancing [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I can’t believe how often I’ve been in the car with someone and they have commented on the body of a STRANGER walking by. Like how do they not realize how weird that is?