{"id":5941,"date":"2021-07-26T17:23:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T21:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/?p=5941"},"modified":"2021-07-26T17:45:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T21:45:49","slug":"pick-of-the-week-what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-fat-by-aubrey-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/2021\/07\/26\/pick-of-the-week-what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-fat-by-aubrey-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick of the Week: What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat<\/em> by Aubrey Gordon<\/h3>\n

From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people.<\/b><\/h4>\n

Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don\u2019t Talk About When We Talk About Fat<\/em>, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people\u2019s experiences. Unlike the recent wave of memoirs and quasi self-help books that encourage readers to love and accept themselves, Gordon pushes the discussion further towards authentic fat activism, which includes ending legal weight discrimination, giving equal access to health care for large people, increased access to public spaces, and ending anti-fat violence. As she argues, \u201cI did not come to body positivity for self-esteem. I came to it for social justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

By sharing her experiences as well as those of others\u2014from smaller fat to very fat people\u2014she concludes that to be fat in our society is to be seen as an undeniable failure, unlovable, unforgivable, and morally condemnable. Fatness is an open invitation for others to express disgust, fear, and insidious concern<\/i>. To be fat is to be denied humanity and empathy. Studies show that fat survivors of sexual assault are less likely to be believed and less likely than their thin counterparts to report various crimes; 27% of very fat women and 13% of very fat men attempt suicide; over 50% of doctors describe their fat patients as \u201cawkward, unattractive, ugly and noncompliant\u201d; and in 48 states, it\u2019s legal\u2014even routine\u2014to deny employment because of an applicant\u2019s size.<\/p>\n

Advancing fat justice and changing prejudicial structures and attitudes will require work from all people. What We Don\u2019t Talk About When We Talk About Fat<\/i> is a crucial tool to create a tectonic shift in the way we see, talk about, and treat our bodies, fat and thin alike. (From publisher.)<\/p>\n

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What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people. Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don\u2019t Talk About When We …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1505,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51555,21726,51551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-pick-of-the-week","category-spotlight","category-staff-picks","post_format-post-format-image","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5945,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions\/5945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}