The oppression of fat people as a queer and feminist issue
Santa Rosa author Anna Mollow has just published an article about the oppression of fat people as a queer and feminist issue, in the Summer 2013 issue of Bitch magazine. The article is available online, where it has stimulated an intense debate. If you would like to read the article and/or participate in the online discussion [there or here - Barry], the article may be found at: https://bitchmagazine.org/article/sized-up-fat-feminist-queer-disability
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Sized Up
Article by Anna Mollow, appeared in issue Micro/Macro; published in 2013; filed under Activism.
Why fat is a queer and feminist issue.
Shortly after Barack Obama took office in 2009, first lady Michelle Obama kicked off the national slimming program “Let’s Move” and inaugurated an escalation of America’s already deeply entrenched “war on obesity,” seeming to interpret her husband’s campaign messages of “Hope” and “Change” in a manner fortuitous to our country’s $60-billion-per-year weight-loss industry……………..
continues at:
https://bitchmagazine.org/article/sized-up-fat-feminist-queer-disability
Re: The oppression of fat people as a queer and feminist issue
This article is excellent! I hope that everyone will read it and learn about fat oppression.
Celebrate Diversity!
Love,
Emerald
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Santa Rosa author Anna Mollow has just published an article about the oppression of fat people as a queer and feminist issue, in the Summer 2013 issue of
Bitch magazine. The article is available online, where it has stimulated an intense debate. If you would like to read the article and/or participate in the online discussion
[there or here - Barry], the article may be found at:
https://bitchmagazine.org/article/sized-up-fat-feminist-queer-disability
https://www.waccobb.net/forums/wacco...2_20-32-05.png
Sized Up
Article by Anna Mollow, appeared in issue Micro/Macro; published in 2013; filed under Activism.
Why fat is a queer and feminist issue.
Shortly after Barack Obama took office in 2009, first lady Michelle Obama kicked off the national slimming program “Let’s Move” and inaugurated an escalation of America’s already deeply entrenched “war on obesity,” seeming to interpret her husband’s campaign messages of “Hope” and “Change” in a manner fortuitous to our country’s $60-billion-per-year weight-loss industry……………..
continues at:
https://bitchmagazine.org/article/sized-up-fat-feminist-queer-disability
