This video was really good. I was slightly nervous because of the video title card image (I think it’s maybe intended to be clickbait to get people to watch who most need to interrogate their own bias about fatness), but the video is centrally about anti-fatness as inextricable from anti-Blackness.
He references important, thoroughly researched texts on this topic like Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun L. Harrison and Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by by Sabrina Strings.
He also platforms several different fat speakers to discuss different intersections (such as a fat Black bisexual guy discussing the politics of fatness, Blackness, and desirability in queer men’s spaces), and to discuss the rampant medical abuse that fat people experience. He also discloses his own struggles with his body and his eating disorder.
Trigger warning for personal discussion of eating disorders and experiences of anti-fatness in the video, as well as some media clips that include some really awful anti-fatness to demonstrate how dehumanizing the mainstream treatment of fat people is. Also content warning for surface level historical discussions of white supremacy, slavery, and eugenics.
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