Hi friend,

 

The winner of the tickets to the Pan Eros Film Festival is Caitlin Sloane! Caitlin, please reply to this email and I'll get you your tickets.

 

Also, I'll be giving an art tour at the Seattle Erotic Art Festival this Friday, April 26 at 8:30 pm! Come hang out with me for an hour for:

 

 

 

 

 

I recently wrote a little introduction to how weight stigma and racism are intimately connected for The Eating Disorder Journal. When you're done reading it below, hop over to EDReferral.com and sign up to get future issues of the free journal.

 

 

As a culture, we have been trained by centuries of sexism and racism that women are sexual objects, 75 years of diet culture taught that thin is beautiful and sexy, and decades of commercials that thin is easy to attain.

 

(And that failures to attain that status are entirely due to individual willpower, as opposed to normal human biology).

 

This means it’s very easy to ascribe moral value and worth to thin bodies and the opposite to fat bodies.

 

 

» I will not hide my body for your comfort (see)

 

» AI image generators like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E amplify bias in gender and race, despite efforts to detoxify the data fueling these results. (read)

 

» “Trust yourself and your body”: advice from fat individuals on how to navigate fat fertility, pregnancy, and birth (read)

 

» Slim isn't limping because he's fat. (read)

 

» 'Listen to your body' may be unhelpful for those who are scared of their bodies. (read)

 

» The Semaglutide (Wegovy) Cardiovascular Outcome Trial (read)

 

🦄 Unicorn chaser: Cute otter cannot sleep without holding a cat (watch)

 

 

When we as a society systemically deny certain bodies equal worth, access and value, that’s called oppression, and that’s why fat liberation is vital to a just and fair world. Fat liberation is the deliberate work of tearing down the systems that have created a world where fat people are denied full participation in society and life, from healthcare to clothing.

 

Body liberation and fat liberation are a continuation of the work of the fat acceptance movement, which itself sprang from the civil rights movement of the 1960s and beyond.

 

Much of the work of all of these movements has been done by fat Black queer women and people with other combinations of marginalized identities. Many interrelated movements exist — body acceptance, fat acceptance, body positivity, fat activism, body liberation, fat liberation, Health at Every Size® (HAES) — with each one focusing on a different aspect of body image, healthcare and other facets of how bodies exist in the world.

 

Fat is also a queer issue, and a racialized issue, and an issue of class, because fatness is inseparable from all other intersections of identity. It’s even more important to understand that fat oppression stems from hundreds of years of racism, and that fat Black bodies are doubly oppressed.

 

Anti-racism work is an inherent part of fat liberation; we can only achieve fat and body liberation by working to end racism as well.

Unapologetically fat,