New Fats.com post, not by me!
The super smart and stunningly femmetastic bias_cut has made an unmissable post to fatshionista.com, on a vitally important subject.
Fat acceptance bloggers are guilty of the same sins of white feminism in that there is often a wholesale grouping of all fat people under the same oppression umbrella, with little or cursory examination of how things like race, class, sexuality, gender and gender presentation, ability, and age play into the fat equation. At minimum, folks in the fat acceptance movement need to take serious stock of their own position in the world, and how their privilege may be blockading their understanding of how other peoples' experiences, identities, and embodiments change the way they experience their fat and how their fat is experienced by the world at large.
Read the whole thing here, right now. RIGHT NOW!
Fat acceptance bloggers are guilty of the same sins of white feminism in that there is often a wholesale grouping of all fat people under the same oppression umbrella, with little or cursory examination of how things like race, class, sexuality, gender and gender presentation, ability, and age play into the fat equation. At minimum, folks in the fat acceptance movement need to take serious stock of their own position in the world, and how their privilege may be blockading their understanding of how other peoples' experiences, identities, and embodiments change the way they experience their fat and how their fat is experienced by the world at large.
Read the whole thing here, right now. RIGHT NOW!