I'm so grateful to the engagement with the sources yesterday, you're all awesome!
In part one, the pieces were more identity focused, today I'm posting for specific facets of fatphobia that may be of interest.
As a reminder, these 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
On fat representation in the media
https://www.vulture.com/2018/07/guy-branum-wants-to-see-more-real-fat-people-on-tv.html
On fat and gender
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ir5f7nyn5a5y180/part-time%20fatso.pdf?dl=0
On the "Health at Every Size" movement
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ybfbkqak4wtu3wp/What%20is%20%22Health%20at%20Every%20Size%22%3F.pdf?dl=0
On capitalism and food
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kuqdcayyxt0ifax/Between%20Obesity%20and%20Hunger.pdf?dl=0
:sankara-salute:
Thanks for posting - the comment thread on body neutrality (in the p1 post) led me to this article, which I found really layered and insightful
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lmorris/i-thought-i-was-above-body-image-issues-until-i-lost-a-lot-o#.ekB002QkPj