Why does the world think fat people can’t be

12 Jan

Being classified as ‘underweight’ is one in every of the necessities of an anorexia nervosa diagnosis, which suggests many individuals with disordered eating are slipping through the cracks If you happen to’re nervous about your personal or another person’s health, you'll be able to contact Beat, the UK’s eating disorder charity, on 0808 801 0677 or beateatingdisorders.org.uk Adam, 27, first showed signs of an eating disorder at 12. His weight remained stable despite other overt signs that his body was in crisis – he had early-stage kidney and bowel problems and was not developing testosterone. “Nobody ever nervous,” he says, because he was never underweight and so his eating disorder slipped under the radar....

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29 Dec

The unconventional history of the queer fat liberation movement

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The unconventional history of the queer fat liberation movement

“Don’t assume… I don’t like my body,” begins a manifesto shared at a 1989 Fat Women’s conference in London. Generally known as the “Fat Dykes Statement”, it contained an inventory of 29 assumptions, from serious points (“Don’t assume… I feel your body is healthier than mine”) alongside more playful ones, which emphasise the ludicrousy of assuming anything a couple of person based on their body shape (“Don’t assume… I need a Weight loss program Coke”). Should you think fat liberation began in 2011 with Tumblr feminism and fat fashion blogs, you’ve never had the pleasure of interacting with Carlie Pendleton’s work. The scholar focuses on the history of fat activism in modern Britain, with particular attention to the queer histories of...

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25 Nov

fat VS curvy… 👀🩷 #shorts

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22 Aug

Performance artist Scottee: we want to quit fat shaming

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Performance artist Scottee: we want to quit fat shaming

I grew up in Kentish Town in North London, now the house of bouji 20-somethings hooked on kombucha. Back then, within the early noughties, it was the fifteenth most deprived area of the country, with child poverty at 40.3%. I used to be one in all those kids. I grew up poor and in social housing. I used to be the kid and grandchild of Irish migrants who consequently of poverty, social exclusion and trauma lived with tricky relationships with food, booze and medicines. I adopted a few of their addictions and made poverty shame my very own. In consequence I grew up as, and still am, what doctors call ‘morbidly obese’. As an adolescent I did all the pieces to not...

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