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

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    4 years ago

    Fatphobia is so fucking harmful, the first time I ever felt happy about my body was at 20 when I met another transfem enby who was fat like me and I thought that not only did they look super hot but they also looked like me, which was like a revelation. Now I feel genuinely happy about my body and have decided that I flat out just look hotter fat than I would if I lost a bunch of weight, fuck all the concern trolling about health theres so much unhealthy shit already thats both 100% accepted and doesnt make me look hot at the same time so why care about it here.