MoF Mini: Fat Liberation
Image of episode cover. The top is a colorful design in with abstract shapes, MoF logos, and the cartoon Venuses from the MoF logo. Below it, the Matter of Fat logo is at the bottom left atop a goldenrod rectangle. To the middle/right “fat liberation” appears (this minisode’s title).
show notes:
What is fat liberation? Co-hosts Cat Polivoda and Saraya Boghani explain fat liberation and body acceptance in this Matter of Fat Mini. Matter of Fat is a body positive podcast with Midwest sensibilities! Full episodes highlight community voices with a focus on body size, body positivity, & fat liberation.
In this minisode, we’re introduced to the history of the US’s fat acceptance movement, compare and contrast the goals of activists 50 years ago with treatment of fat people today, and explain why fat liberation is important.
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episode resources
Why Fat Humanity Should Not Be Governed By Fuckability - Sherronda J. Brown, 2017, Wear Your Voice Mag
Where are all the disabled people in the body positivity campaigns? - Rachel Cohen Rottenberg, 2017, The Body is not an Apology (TBINAA)
4 Reasons Why We Need Fat Liberation - Laurel Dickman, 2016, Wear Your Voice Mag
Fat Acceptance Activists explain why Body Positivity is Becoming Meaningless - Evette Dionne, 2017, Revelist
The Fragility of Body Positivity: How a Radical Movement Lost Its Way - Evette Dionne, 2017, Bitch
Here’s what fat acceptance is and isn’t - Evette Dionne, 2019, Yes!
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Uncovering the History of Fat Acceptance: Lew Louderback’s 1967 Article - Dagny Kight, 2014
Super Fat Erasure: 4 Ways Smaller Fat Bodies Crowd the Conversation - Caleb Luna, 2019, TBINAA
Sized Up: Why Fat Is A Queer and Feminist Issue - Anna Mollow, 2013, Bitch
How Body Positivity Lost it True and Radical Meaning - Bethany Rutter, 2017, DAZED
Fat as a Feminist Issue: A History by Zora Simic
In Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism By Helen Hester, Caroline Walters, 2016
The Feminist History of Fat Liberation - Sarah Simon, 2017, Ms. Magazine
11 Influencers Discuss The Difference Between Body Positivity and Fat Acceptance - Marie Southard Ospina, 2016, Bustle
Dear Virgie: Is There Room For Women Of Color in the Fat Movement - Virgie Tovar, 2016, Wear Your Voice Mag
Do 95% of Dieters Really Fail? - Ragen Chastain, 2011, Dances with Fat
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