Show threadJennifer Moore 😷Mar 8, 2025

And here's a post from her, reflecting on a year of the book being out:
https://katemanne.substack.com/p/unshrinking-out-in-paperback

#KateManne #Unshrinking #FatPolitics #books

Unshrinking Out in Paperback

Buy your copy and get a free year of More to Hate!

More to Hate
Jennifer Moore 😷Mar 8, 2025

Kate Manne's book Unshrinking is coming out in paperback. It's one of the ones I reviewed last year on @booktrail:
https://sunny.garden/@booktrail/112129566608464445

#KateManne #Unshrinking #FatPolitics #books

Jennifer's BookTrail (@[email protected])

Kate Manne - Unshrinking Science, history & ethics, woven together with her own experiences of being a fat woman. Gives a good overview of the territory: bad science around weight & weight loss, stigma applied to being fat, medical prejudice etc. One of the book's strengths is its descriptions of the author's own backstory of restricted eating & trying to be smaller. I have a sense of the book as being itself part of her moving on from that mindset, and what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick referred to as "coming out as fat". Ultimately the book argues for neither "body positivity" nor "body neutrality", but what KM calls "body reflexivity": my body is for me, yours is for you. #books #fat #stigma #BMI #dieting #BadScience #ethics #memoir

Sunny Garden
Show threadpotions Feb 18, 2024
a tag would be useful here I think. see above #fatpolitics
Jennifer Moore 😷Feb 6, 2024

Noticing that Kate Manne has a new book out! "Unshrinking" is about fat politics / fatphobia. Just reserved it at the library!

#FatPolitics #books

Show threadJennifer Single BassFeb 2, 2024

Next up, deploying slap bass combined with harmonics:

Heavy woman

In celebration of fat women, and rejecting the social rules which say we're all supposed to be thin :-)

https://single-bass.bandcamp.com/track/heavy-woman

#songs #FatPolitics #bass

Heavy Woman, by Single Bass

track by Single Bass

Single Bass
val now at @[email protected]Dec 3, 2023

For most fat people, it is literally impossible to become and stay thin. This blogger explains it better than I could.

If you wouldn't make fun of a person for their skin color which they can't change, please consider not making fun of people for their body size which they can't change. If you want to make fun of a fat jerk, make fun of them for being a jerk, not for being fat.

#fatphobia #FatPolitics

https://amptoons.com/blog/?p=22049

I’m Asking You For A Peer-Reviewed Study Showing That A Typical Fat Person Can Become Sustainably Non-Fat Through Deliberate Weight-Loss | Alas, a Blog

miriam heddyMar 17, 2023

Let’s talk about #DescriptiveLanguage:

FAT is a descriptive adjective & noun.

OVERWEIGHT includes a negative judgment. We don’t say “He’s OVERHEIGHT.”

OBESE is a medical term—and a pathologizing label. It has a history & its parameters have changed over time.

All of these words may be used or understood as epithets.

The terms #FatAcceptance, #Fatshion, #FatPolitics, #FatLiberation, etc. reclaim the word as neutral while highlighting that it’s not a neutral thing to be fat in this world.

miriam heddyNov 27, 2022
This Psychology Today piece by Dr Pirkko Markula on the #BodyPositive mov’t is a good introduction to the research & reality of #Fatmisia/#Fatphobia & references interesting research. She discusses the way that the mov’t has been coopted by straight-sized people to promote exercise as body modification & self-esteem for only a limited body type.
#FatAcceptance #FatPolitics #Psychology #BodyImage
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fit-femininity/202211/exploring-the-body-positivity-movement
Exploring the Body Positivity Movement

Learn what research says about body positivity.

Psychology Today
miriam heddyNov 21, 2022
#FatAcceptance #FatRepresentation #FatPolitics #movienight
Just rewatched the #CoenBrothers’ “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou” (2000), which takes place in 1937 in Mississippi.
And guess what?
There are fat characters played by fat actors! And no fat suits! And fat people as extras in crowd scenes! And most of them aren’t eating (though when they are, thin people are eating too!) And no fat jokes!
Apparently, this is possible!
Show threadTavie (rhymes with gravy)Nov 7, 2022

@designerscott love this idea!

#musicaltheater #animation #themeparks #fatpolitics #sketchcomedy