Fat Kinship

Fat Kinship examines the transformative power of self-selected relationships among fat people, exploring how fatness intersects with identity, intimacy, and community to challenge societal stigma and foster belonging.

Autorentext

Cindy Baker - Canadian artist Cindy Baker's interdisciplinary, research-based practice engages with queer, gender, race, disability, fat, and art discourses. She has exhibited internationally, co-founded important advocacy organizations, and received awards for her community-driven work, including the Body Confidence Canada Award and South Asian Visual Arts Collective's Collaborator of the Year Award.

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Fat Kinship examines the transformative power of self-selected relationships among fat people, exploring how fatness intersects with identity, intimacy, and community to challenge societal stigma and foster belonging.

Inhalt

Fat Kinship: an introduction 1. Fat politics as a constituent of intersecting intimacies 2. Fat beyond the fetish: toward a theory of fat-forward sexuality 3. Comfy fat queer love: affective digital resistance through kinship 4. Self-conscious, unapologetic, and straight: fat protagonists in romantic fiction 5. Psychological kinship between fat therapists and fat patients: healing and solidarity around stigma, family relationships, and body image 6. Closer. Fatness, desire, and seeing as touching 7. Hollywood's slim pickings for fat characters: A textual analysis of Gilmore Girls, Sweet Magnolias, This is Us, Shrill, and Dietland 8. Fat bodies, intimate relationships and the self in finnish and American weight-loss TV shows 9. Successfully and deliciously fugacious: re-interpreting the "failed" fat relationship in Percy Adlon's Zuckerbaby (1985) 10. "It has literally been a lifesaver": the role of "knowing kinship" in supporting fat women to navigate medical fatphobia 11. Fat kinship for love and liberation: a dialogue across difference