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

  • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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    4 years ago

    What the fuck :|

    Thanks for posting the OP, lots of libs still haven't realized the full extent of the harm the stigma from fatphobia causes. It's wild how people will just make assumptions about strangers from their bodies and then repeat those as if the stigma isn't actually dangerously dehumanizing.

    • carlin [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      r/fatpeoplehate normalised it in libs brains.

      I mean also like the entire media, particularly childrens, but I want to make witty chapo post hahaha