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
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