Where Are All the Other Fat Folks? Fat Liberation in Food Justice Work

This paper includes first-person narratives about my experiences as a fat (white, cis, queer) academic and teacher involved in community food justice research and advocacy.  Theoretically grounded in fat studies and food studies, I explore the tensions amongst these disciplines and suggest that justice-minded food folks should also be focused on fat inclusion, addressing implicit bias in food advocacy spaces, celebrating food and community, and advocating for systemic change that supports fat liberation

Disrupting Normative Femininity: Diagnoses of Eating Disorders as Tools of Control

You don’t look like you have an eating disorder. Aren’t you supposed to be thin? This paper discusses representations of two eating dis-orders—binge eating disorder and anorexia—as they appear the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—Fifth Edition (DSM-V). I discuss how such representations construct disorder, fatness, and cultural expectations of femininity. I suggest that feminist and fat studies, together with disability studies, complicate assumptions of eating disorders and fatness, while revealing how medicine, culture, and society enforce normative expectations of the body and its relationship with society

Grandmother's Dinners: Challenging and Redefining Notions of Leadership

Cet article explore le leadership dans le contexte des soupers hebdomadaires de la grand-mère de l’auteure, avant la pan-démie COVID-19. Les soupers de sa grand-mère font office de lieu où le leadership est adopté et où les théories traditionnelles du leadership sont mises au défi. L’auteure utilise un cadre discursif anticolonial, la pensée féministe noire et du tiers monde pour donner un sens au leadership de sa grand-mère

Rethinking Fat Studies and Activism in Women's and Gender Studies Textbooks: Fatspiration, "Thin Saviours," and Sexist Beauty Culture

This paper surveys women’s and gender studies textbook inclusions on fatness. It highlights the framing, focus areas, and content to develop a discussion of the scholarly and political tensions between fat activists and fat studies scholars, and feminist politics and scholarship. Specifically, the article critiques the subsumption of fat within critiques of beauty culture, the use of extractive narratives, and healthism. The article suggests ways of including critical fat scholarship and activist writing that is intersectional.&nbsp