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• Title: Spatial Awarishness
• Author : Adrienne C. Hill
• Release Date : January 18, 2013
• Genre: Psychology,Books,Health, Mind & Body,Health & Fitness,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 10765 KB

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Queer-identified women have played a prominent role in fat activism since the inception of the fat liberation movement in the 1970s, and continue to do so today. While the presence and work of queer women in the fat acceptance movement is widely noted, recent scholarship in the emerging field of fat studies appears to accept the prominence of such women within the movement as axiomatic. Few fat scholars attempt to identify what precisely the connections between queer and fat activism are, or why queer women may be particularly empowered to participate in the fat activist movement. The following project aims to map queer women’s influences in the fat activist movement by examining the recent work of queer fat women activists. Focusing in particular on two recent case studies—the work of San Francisco Bay Area-based performance troupe Big Burlesque, and FemmeCast, a New York-based Podcast billing itself as “the queer fat femme guide to life”—I examine the mixture of camp aesthetics, lesbian identity politics, and postmodern theories of the body that queer fat women have transported from their communities to fat activism. Queer fat women bring the language, performance media, and identity politics of their communities into their engagements with fat activism, in order to resignify fatness as the basis for a new, empowering, and potentially subversive identity position.

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