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Fetishizing Fatness in the Context of (Non-Ethical) Pornography REUPLOAD

Fetishizing Fatness in the Context of (Non-Ethical) Pornography REUPLOAD
Fetishizing Fatness in the Context of (Non-Ethical) Pornography REUPLOAD

00:30: Defining fetishization 

02:45: Origins and intersections of anti-fatness and  anti-Blackness 

09:50: (Un)intentionally ignoring fat fetishization 

14:00: Distinguishing a kinks and fetishes

14:40: Challenging anti-fatness despite the prominence of fetishization 

26:24: Portrayals of fatness in media

33:10: Resisting fetishization 

34:48: Intersections of queerness and fatness  

40:00: Using our bodies to resist societal normality 

Citations: 

Austen, Emma, Sarah Bonell, and Scott Griffiths. 2022. “Fat Is Feminine: A Qualitative Study of How Weight Stigma Is Constructed among Sexual Minority Men Who Use Grindr.” Body Image 42:160–72. 

Byers, Lyla E. and Heidi M. Williams. 2022. “Hollywood’s Slim Pickings for Fat Characters: A Textual Analysis of Gilmore Girls, Sweet Magnolias, This Is Us, Shrill, and Dietland.” Fat Studies 12(2):273–85.

Edwards, Mackenzie. 2022. “‘Spread My Thighs and Imagine a Better, Fatter World’: The Uses of the Erotic in Fat Activist Art.” Fat Studies 1–13. 

Holmes, Caren M. 2016. “The Colonial Roots of the Racial Fetishization of Black Women.” Black & Gold 2(2). Retrieved May 9, 2023 (https://openworks.wooster.edu/blackandgold/vol2/iss1/2/?utm_source=openworks.wooster.edu%2Fblackandgold%2Fvol2%2Fiss1%2F2&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages). 

Jones, Angela. 2018. “The Pleasures of Fetishization: BBW Erotic Webcam Performers, Empowerment, and Pleasure.” Fat Studies 8(3):279–98. 

Klumbyte, Goda and Katrine Smiet. 2016. “Chapter 9:Bodies Like Our Own? The Dynamics of Distance and Closeness in Online Fat Porn .” Pp. 133–51 in Fat sex: New directions in theory and activism, edited by H. Hester and C. Walters. S.l., New York: Routledge. 

Kyrölä, Katariina. 2021. “Fat in the Media.” The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies 105–16. 

Taylor, Sonya Renee. 2017. “Bodies as Resistance: Claiming the Political Act of Being Oneself .” YouTube. Retrieved May 9, 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWI9AZkuPVg). 

Williams, Apryl. 2017. “Fat People of Color: Emergent Intersectional Discourse Online.” Social Sciences 6(1):15. 

Your Fat Friend. 2019. “The Bizarre and Racist History of the BMI.” Medium. Retrieved May 9, 2023 (https://elemental.medium.com/the-bizarre-and-racist-history-of-the-bmi-7d8dc2aa33bb).

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