The engagement has been awesome so far! Excited to hear your thoughts on the piece, or pieces, you choose
On fat fetish
Gaining is the fetish that changes how we think about the male body
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/gaining-fetish
Feederism: Eating, Weight Gain, and Sexual Pleasure
https://www.dropbox.com/s/plxactm1t42iy2v/Feederism%20%E2%80%93%20Eating%2C%20Weight%20Gain%2C%20and%20Sexual%20Pleasure.pdf?dl=0
On race and fat
BMI
https://elemental.medium.com/the-bizarre-and-racist-history-of-the-bmi-7d8dc2aa33bb
Fatphobia
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w3f75wpefna44p1/Fearing%20the%20Black%20Body.pdf?dl=0
On dismantling thin privilege
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r9f06lm0g8j0y1w/Reflections%20on%20Thin%20Privilege%20and%20Responsibility.pdf?dl=0
Week one - Identity
Week two - Capitalism, gender, media and health at every size
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
:sankara-salute:
I have been way too skinny all my life. In school we once had to calculate our BMI (school is a fucked up place) and our teacher told me my BMI was impossible and NOBODY could live with a BMI like that. I tried everything to gain weight but nothing worked. Then I found out I have been depressed for the majority of my life. My doctor put me on antidepressants and for the first time in my life I understood people who could always eat. I ate more than ever before and gained more than 20lb in three weeks. What I'm trying to say is: Your hunger, your drive to eat something and all these things are determined by your hormones, nothing else. Every person has unique brain with a unique mix of hormones. Eating less has nothing to do with a lack of will. You can't decide how much you have to eat, your hormones do that and dictate your life. So don't be ashamed when your the one eating the most at a dinner (or every dinner). Maybe don't eat too much sugar tho. The sugar industry made fat the villain when actually a high fat, low sugar diet is probably the best for humans.
How did they reconcile this with you clearly being alive?
It just happened fucking again! Not with my weight but the "that can't be true". Friend of mine had a collapse. She took her temperature and it was 33° C, which is 91.4 Fahrenheid, which is waaay to low and extremely dangerous. She took the temperature under her arm, so maybe it was 0.5 dagrees more. She is in another country, so I could only be there over the phone. I looked up what do to and told her to drink a tee. A friend was supposed to come and help and it took him half an hour to get there. She kept drinking tee and kept warm but didn't want to see a doctor because she had to pay half a month salary for a corona test. It didn't get better and she went to the Doctors today. When she told her, that she took the temperature under the arm and is was only 33°, she told her that wasn't possible. She sent my friend home without any further inspection but measuring the heart rate. It's rediculous, this girl can barely walk and is being told to go home because her sympthoms were impossible and her heart rate is fine.
They didn't really let me say anything after I said my BMI and the teacher said it's not possible. I know someone who had something similar at the doctors. She told them she didn't take a shit in 14 days and the doctor just startet screaming at her, that she was a liar and nobody would survive such a thing.