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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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To mark the opening of his performance piece Fat Blokes, British performance artist Scottee explains why he’s fat-igued with body 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 certainly one of 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...
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Despite the health dangers, the image of the smoker as an elegant, louche, sexy figure is one we’ve never quite been capable of shake as a society. Can anything be done to change that?
Smoking looks cool. It’s an unlucky reality given how bad cigarettes are to your health. Blame movies, blame promoting, blame James Dean, Margot Tenenbaum and Lily-Rose Depp, blame the Marlboro Man – regardless of the source, the image of the smoker as an elegant, louche, sexy figure is one we’ve never quite been capable of shake as a society. Quitting smoking, however, paints a less glamorous picture filled with beige nicotine patches and preachy PSAs. Can something be done...
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