Delayed reaction from me, but I've been thinking about this for a few days now.

Fatism deeply upsets me. There's something extra insidious about it that I cant quite put my finger on.

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1/7 https://twitter.com/LisaQuadt/status/1197588356089167872

It's like any other oppressive attitude like, take your pick- racism, ableism, misogyny, among many- that can end up being internalised (internalised misogyny, for example)...
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But it's also much more mainstream-societally encouraged. To be fatist, to have internalised fatism, is kind of culturally celebrated and dressed up as a 'caring about health' or perverted into a 'wanting the best for oneself'.
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But- this might be contentious- I feel like it's a (purposefully) *disabling* attitude. It ungrounds embodied subjects from their bodies, it induces the split between 'my body' and 'me'. It carves us up into parts.
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It deliberately disempowers (as with all forms of oppresion) but in a form disguised as being well-meaning. In a world where it is costly to take up space, we goad each other to buy in to making ourselves small. Eugh.
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Bodies-is-bodies is all I'm saying. And for womxn especially, one of the most radical things we can do, I think, is let fatism slide off our backs, and pass that resistance on to others.
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Here's something pretty to enjoy.
(Artwork by @marieboiseau who is doing some stellar and beautious work repping fat bodies) 7/7