Pub Date : 2021-04-27DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1907978
Sarah K. Doherty, Shana McDavis-Conway, Adrienne C. Hill, Elaine Lee, Sydney Lewis, Aaminah Shakur, Cicely Smith
ABSTRACT Informed by the FaT GiRL Roundtables in FaT GiRL: A Zine for Fat Dykes and the Women Who Want Them, a group of US-based queer and transgender fat activists from diverse races, classes, ages, disabilities, and geographies, some associated with or in community with members of the queer and transgender fat liberation organization, Nolose, discuss fat activism. Activism discussed includes work in burlesque, community organizing, daily interpersonal work, work in higher education, organizing or funding community events, fat culture-making, exercise, and both online and in-person mutual aid and education. Participants raise relationships and events that led them to become fat activists, and talk about challenges in fat activism including the widespread belief that fat people can become thin people, racism and cissexism, internalized oppression, “body positivity” decentering superfat people and people of color and centering smaller white cisgender women. Included is the poem “Impostor Syndrome” by Dr. Sydney Lewis. Participants also talk about opportunities for action, powerful and effective strategies and tactics of fat activists, and possible futures of intersectional radical fat activism; these include mutual aid online organizing, centering Black fat femme people and politics in fat liberation analysis, multiple accessible ways of organizing, and organizing both with cultural and relationship-based work.
由FaT GiRL圆桌会议提供信息:FaT GiRL: A Zine for FaT Dykes and the Women Who Want Them，一群来自不同种族、阶级、年龄、残疾和地域的美国酷儿和变性脂肪活动家，其中一些与酷儿和变性脂肪解放组织Nolose成员有联系或在社区中，讨论脂肪活动。讨论的行动主义包括滑稽剧工作、社区组织、日常人际交往工作、高等教育工作、组织或资助社区活动、脂肪文化创造、锻炼，以及在线和面对面的互助和教育。参与者提到了导致他们成为肥胖活动家的关系和事件，并谈到了肥胖活动家面临的挑战，包括胖人可以变成瘦人的普遍信念、种族主义和性别歧视、内化的压迫、“身体积极性”(body positive)，将超胖者和有色人种排除在外，并以体型较小的白人顺性别女性为中心。其中包括西德尼·刘易斯博士的诗“冒名顶替综合症”。与会者还讨论了行动的机会，肥胖活动家的强大而有效的战略和战术，以及交叉激进的肥胖行动主义的可能未来;其中包括互助性在线组织、以黑人肥胖女性和政治为中心的肥胖解放分析、多种可访问的组织方式、文化和关系工作相结合的组织方式。
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Pub Date : 2021-04-23DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1913829
Kaisu Hynnä-Granberg
ABSTRACT This article utilizes the concept of “shared vulnerability” to analyze media reflections of a Finnish fat activist monologue FAT. In texts, pictures, and sounds on FAT, gaps between differently-sized women are stitched up and a feeling of an all-women’s community is offered as a solution to hurtful experiences. I argue that shared vulnerability can signal a welcomed realization of previously hidden privileges on the part of the more normative subject. Yet, talking about shared vulnerability risks ironing out fat women’s experiences by decentering them or displacing them with those of more-normatively-sized women.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-22DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1913830
M. Bromberg, Margaret Bromberg
ABSTRACT We trace our maternal line’s journey across four generations as they weave into and back out of (white) American diet culture, out of and back into observant Judaism. Using our memories, against the backdrop of larger social-historical forces, we put forth a method of “re-membering” ourselves: our bodies and our wholeness. The first Minna in our story, Minna Yorkowitz, arrived as an immigrant to New York in 1905. She was a large woman and an observant Jew. Her daughter Ida rejected everything having to do with Judaism and saw thinness as a way of fitting in. Ida’s daughter, Margaret, sought her own (re)connections with Judaism while struggling well into adulthood with restrictive eating and internalized fatphobia. Minna Bromberg, Margaret’s daughter, deepened her connection with Judaism, connected with the fat liberation movement and, as a rabbi, seeks to deploy Jewish text and tradition in liberatory ways. Our “Fat Torah” approach looks at how diet culture is idolatrous and guilty of undermining the inherent worth of every human being. We offer a “re-braiding” that allows us to bring together each of our lives into a new wholeness.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-19DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1907112
Mary Senyonga, Caleb Luna
ABSTRACT In this article, we negotiate the tension of Lizzo’s embodiment and the work she is forced to perform to appease and mollify both thin and non-Black audiences. As a Black fat rapper, singer, dancer, and performer, Lizzo at once disrupts the normative image of a performer and becomes a commodified representation of body positivity. Her self-love messaging undoubtedly touches a broad fan base who look to her for guidance and inspiration. But how is she taken up by audiences dissimilar to her? Lizzo’s body-positive politic is presented as being particularly interested in disrupting body terrorism, while some audiences perceive it as a neoliberal model of self-love, failing to challenge systems. We consider ways in which Black fat bodies are consumed and used for their utility, while broader relationships to other Black fat people remain unchanged. We map selections from Lizzo’s creative output in 2019 to demonstrate racialization and fat embodiment intertwined in her performances, leading to the necessary coalition that fat activism must adopt.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-19DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1902703
Merissa Nathan Gerson
ABSTRACT In this collection of interviews with Jewish fat liberationists, Merissa Nathan Gerson traces the centrality of Jewish women to the beginnings of the fat liberation movement in the 1970s and 1980s. She links the history of Jewish women’s involvement in fat liberation to radical black queer fat acceptance in the 1960s. Incorporating the theorizing of Sabrina Strings, Merissa underscores how fatphobia began during the Enlightenment as a way to associate fatness with savagery and racial inferiority. This led to the racist creation of the BMI and the continuation of white supremacy within WASP-centered beauty norms. Jewish women especially have internalized these white American esthetic ideals, leading to what Rabbi Minna Bromberg terms “diet culture as idolatry.” Many of the interviewees, who come from a diverse range of religious practices and professions, describe the ways their Jewish mothers emphasized dieting as a way to control “Jewish wildness.” They challenge the idea that fat is unhealthy and maintain that Jewish communities must confront their fatphobia. Three key Jewish ideas are interwoven throughout: bezelim elohim, tikkun halev, and tikkun olam [made in God’s image, healing the self or the heart, and healing the world]. These three tenets articulate how Jewish traditions already include the philosophies needed to go beyond fat acceptance to advocate for fat liberation.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-19DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1913812
Ariane Prohaska
ABSTRACT There is limited scholarly information about beauty pageants for fat women. Based on a larger study about how pageant participants define beauty and health, this paper examines the presentation of fat bodies in a plus-size beauty pageant, and how the pageant constructs, rewards, and reinforces specific types of fat performativity. Although the plus-size pageant is challenging traditional ideas of beauty in terms of body size, pageant participants are expected to be “good fatties”. The pageant teaches competitors the socially acceptable ways to eat and to dress for one’s body. Pageant competitors are taught that looking beautiful means to “discipline their corpulence”, while the pageant simultaneously delivers the messages of “big is beautiful” and that beauty comes from within. The paper concludes with implications of these findings on gender and femininity, and fat studies, and fashion studies scholarship.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-19DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1913814
Kjerstin Gruys
ABSTRACT The extent to which the U.S. fashion industry is becoming more size- and shape- inclusive is highly contested. To assess whether or not this is occurring in women’s fashion, I draw from a content analysis of 162 online job advertisements for female fit models in the U.S. collected between 2012 and 2018. I show that fit modeling is, indeed, more size- and shape- inclusive than fashion modeling. However, when compared to the broader U.S. population, the sizes and shapes recruited in fit model ads are not inclusive. For example, only 16% of job ads recruited “plus-size” models, none recruited fit models larger than size 20/2X, and virtually all specified fit models with hourglass proportions. To the extent that fit models are selected because they mirror fashion brands’ “target customers,” these findings suggest that the U.S. fashion industry is not, in fact, becoming more size- and shape- inclusive.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-19DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1913813
L. Peters
ABSTRACT This article considers the messy intersections of fat liberation and fashion. In doing so, it analyzes two case studies – Big Beautiful Woman magazine’s “I’M MAD AS HELL!” complaint slips and the more recent “#MakeMySize” social media movement – through the critical lenses of commodity feminism and commodity activism. When viewed through these lenses, these case studies demonstrate that although some critics have deemed fashion a frivolous preoccupation, it has in fact played an important, if complicated, role in the ongoing project of resignifying fat embodiment and in pushing the fat liberation movement forward.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-16DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1907110
Dawn M Haney, Max Airborne, Charis Stiles
ABSTRACT Fat liberation, as distinct from other social movements, has been around since the 1970s. But the vision initiated in the 1973 Fat Liberation Manifesto feels narrowed today, limited to posting selfies online or boycotting diets. While fat acceptance is essential, it is only part of a fat liberation movement. Liberation movements intervene in institutional power that unfairly advantage one group over others. For fat people, what would a fat liberation movement look like? One that intervenes when insurance “declines coverage” for fat bodies until they lose weight? Or when police are exonerated for murdering Black people like Eric Garner, blaming him for being a “ticking time bomb of obesity” when police put him a chokehold? After a year and half of consistent action to engage fat people in more radical liberation that intervenes in institutional power, we officially launched Fat Rose as an online group for study and action in January 2019. In this article, we use two political organizing tools to assess fat activism: Movement Ecology (personal transformation, building alternatives, changing dominant institutions) and the Momentum Organizing Model (escalation, active popular support, absorption). These tools help us place fat liberation work in context of broader liberation movements, and strengthen our organizing for the liberation of fat people. In this article, we explore these tools through our work with Fat Rose, to share our story and to offer these tools as useful organizing strategies for other fat liberation work to come.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-14DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1913828
Allison Taylor
ABSTRACT This article uses interview data to explore how queer fat femme women and gender nonconforming individuals negotiate a dominant cultural fashioning of fat fem(me)ininity as hyperfeminine, fat “in the right places,” white, cisgender, and upper/middle-class. By considering the pressures queer fat femmes experience to embody this culturally intelligible fat fem(me)ininity; the consequences participants experience for deviating from this fem(me)ininity; participants’ feelings of failure in relation to this fat fem(me)ininity; and participants’ articulations of queer fat femme as a space of resistance and community via their own fashionings of fat and queer fem(me)ininities, this article argues that there is a need to broaden narrow cultural conceptions of fat fem(me)ininity. Expanding conceptions of fat fem(me)ininity offers opportunities to recognize and value queer fat femmes’ own (re)fashionings of fat fem(me)ininities.
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