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@FOMNZ
Jul 22, 2018 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Hello to my new followers! My name is Cat, and I’m a Fat Studies scholar and fat activist in New Zealand
about.me/friendofmarilyn
My scholarship explores the impact of fat stigma on the health and well-being of fat people. Fat stigma is a social determinant of health, and may explain most of the morbidity and mortality associated with fatness.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
I also study how fat activists use Web 2.0 tools to resist and reject the messages of the fatpocalypse. Using Web 2.0 tools like Twitter, Instagram, & YouTube, fat activists queer fatness, belly out to fat stereotypes, and clapback at fat phobic bullshit
tinyurl.com/yaoym3hq
These Web 2.0 tools allow fatties to engage in anti-assimilationist activism; to have a voice amongst all the fatpocalypse rhetoric. And because of the interwebs, they can share their work with the world and connect in with the Global fat community
journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjo…
As both an activist and scholar, I find great value in using Web 2.0 tools in my own work; engaging in sociable scholarship makes my work accessible to those outside the Ivory Tower and keeps me accountable to the communities I serve
socialtheoryapplied.com/journal/jast/a…
One of the ways I engage in sociable scholarship is through my fat positive podcast, Friend of Marilyn. FOM has been on the air on @AccessManawatu since 2011; you can also find it on iTunes. The show is currently on a world tour!
stuff.co.nz/life-style/lif…
You can also find me on Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, and YouTube. And I blog about fatness too! I’m really glad you’re here, and I look forward to what we can learn from each other 😊
friendofmarilyn.com/2012/04/05/the…
I participate in #FatStudyGroup, live Tweeting my reading of Fat Studies literature (or lit related to Fatness). You should check out the # if you’d like to see the resource we are creating friendofmarilyn.com/fatstudygroup/
There are a lot of individuals who are keen to study Fatness from a Fat Studies perspective, but not a lot of opportunities to do so in structured formats. That’s why I started the Fat Studies MOOO

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Sep 3, 2018
At the end of May, I travelled to Queenstown, one of the loveliest towns in New Zealand, to attend the Critical Health Education Studies Conference (aka, CHESS, #CHESS18, @CritHealthStud) crithealthstud.org/page/
Queenstown, btw, is one of the most beautiful places in the world, and I highly recommend going there if you have the chance!
It was a last minute decision. I received an invite from Professor Richard Tinning (a distinguished Professor in the area of physical & health education), to fill a vacancy on a symposium he had organized on “Critical health education and the affect of physical education”.
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Aug 28, 2018
Today in #FatStudyGroup, we are reading Kasten, G. (2018). A discussion of weight bias, its intersections with homophobia, racism, and misogyny. Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research, 79(3), 133-138. dcjournal.ca/doi/10.3148/cj…
This article is a version of a Ryley-Jeffs Memorial Lecture given by Dr. Kasten in June 2018 to the Dietitians of Canada’s conference.
At the beginning of the piece, Dr. Kasten identifies himself as a gay man; and he shares this to frame the overall narrative of the piece: that “sometimes, even with the best of intentions, people tell us lies” (p. 133).
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Jun 29, 2018
Today in #FatStudyGroup, we reading Chs9-10 of Solovay, S. (2000). Tipping the scales of justice. Amherst, New York, USA: Prometheus Books.
In the ninth chapter, Solovay reviews how weight often intersects with other (usually protected) categories, such as gender and/or race. She provides several examples of cases where this has occurred, and how the courts have negotiated the issue.
In the longest chapter in the book, Ch10, Solovay considers whether fat people should find protection under existing disability laws. She begins by noting how contentious this idea is, both in the fat activist community and in the disability community.
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Jun 28, 2018
Today in #FatStudyGroup, we are reading Chs 7-8 of Solovay, S. (2000). Tipping the scales of justice. Amherst, New York, USA: Prometheus Books.
In chapter seven, Solovay asserts the importance of (and right to) being judged by one’s peers; and yet, fat people can be dismissed from serving on a jury because of their weight in the US.
She argues, "Excluding fat people from juries because of weight is inequitable. It denies fat defendants the Constitution’s guarantee of an impartial jury...It prevents fat people from contributing to the important mechanism of justice because of stereotypes & prejudice” (p. 97).
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Jun 27, 2018
Today in #FatStudyGroup, we are reading Chs4-6 of Solovay, S. (2000). Tipping the scales of justice. Amherst, New York, USA: Prometheus Books.
In chapter four, Solovay focuses in on the stigma and discrimination fat children face in educational settings. She cites the 1994 report from National Education Association, and outlines in the chapter the ways that educational settings may be hostile to fat children.
This includes the physical accessibility of the school, the treatment from their teachers, the treatment from their peers, and their treatment from those associated with schooling outside of the school (like the bus drivers or others the child may interact with regularly).
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Jun 26, 2018
Today in #FatStudyGroup, we are reading the first three chapters of Solovay, S. (2000). Tipping the scales of justice. Amherst, New York, USA: Prometheus Books.
Solovay opens the book by telling the story of Marlene Corrigan, a woman who was tried for felony child abuse/endangerment after her super fat child died (of unknown causes; an autopsy was not conducted).
Solovay suggests the criminal charges were unclear, and argues that “if the charges were based on the child’s weight, then the district attorney was unleashing a huge civil rights issue. The precedent would suggest that having a fat child was a crime” (p. 20).
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