I'm so grateful to the engagement with the sources last week, 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 capitalism and food

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kuqdcayyxt0ifax/Between%20Obesity%20and%20Hunger.pdf?dl=0

On fat and gender

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ir5f7nyn5a5y180/part-time%20fatso.pdf?dl=0

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 the "Health at Every Size" movement

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ybfbkqak4wtu3wp/What%20is%20%22Health%20at%20Every%20Size%22%3F.pdf?dl=0

:sankara-salute:

👉 Part 3 is up