I've put my notes, slides and an audio recording of my Fat Studies: A Critical Dialogue keynote online. Please drop me a line if you'd like links to download and read what I presented in Sydney. You could click through the slides and listen to the .mp3 and pretend you were there! The notes also contain nerdalicious references.
In a similar vein, The Scavenger published a piece I wrote last week about fat activism and feminism. Basically I'm saying that the focus has been on the wrong kind of feminism in the popular media and in academia. I argue that people should be looking to the feminism that brought The Fat Underground into being rather than supporting hagiographies of Susie Orbach. This is not news to anyone who knows me and my work, but it's nice to be supported by The Scavenger and bring this stuff to new readers.
Fat is a feminist issue, but whose feminism?
Over and out.
4 comments:
I got to see this in person and it was awesome and inspiring. I recommend taking the time to listen and flick through the slides for the full effect.
Thanks Charlotte for such a great keynote. As someone pretty oblivious to FA outside my own backyard, I learned a tonne from you (and many of the other speakers at the conference).
Thanks for your encouragement Nick. It was great to meet you and get more of an idea of the Fatosphere in Australia. Good work! Keep a-going.
thanks for the link to that amazing essay about what a true fat positive feminism could be. i was just poking around on the net looking for pics of fatty wimmin to illustrate something i'm trying to discuss with a friend on facebook about doctor who and how woefully not futuristic his heroines are on a bunch of different levels and I came across your blog. i'm glad i did. thanks for existing.
Thanks.
I'd hesitate to use the word 'true' here because I think multiple accounts can exist side by side. I'm interested in highlighting this other feminism because I think it has been marginalise in discussions about fat.
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