Hi everybody, I settled in to work on suicidal empathy and I was working on a section on fat studies and fat acceptance because it's empathetic to tell people who weigh as much as whales that it's healthy for them to be at any size. It's better to

lie to them than to hurt their feelings about being fat. And so as I was doing my research, I came

across this very, very exciting special issue, and I'm going to read it for you verbatim

and prepare for it to be in suicidal empathy.

You ready?

This is good.

So this is in the journal Fat Studies.

And it's a call for a special issue on indigenously fat, fatly indigenous. All right right so here we go indigenously fat fat fatly indigenous hey canohi

kitea khajaki nagamahara is a well-known Maori wakatoki proverb. It encapsulates one of the integral principles of

Thao Maori, the Maori world, and Kopapa Maori philosophy, ways of being, knowing, seeing.

It reiterates the importance of being seen, being present, and being remembered.

It highlights the value of Waka, Wano, Gatanga, good relationships, and of the ways we indigenous

peoples relate to each other through presence. When considering this way of conceptualizing

the significance of re-visibilization,

we seek to rethink and reshape our indigenous knowledge.

He, tinana, kitea, kha-hoki, Nagah Mahara.

A familiar body, a seen body, causes memories to flow, memories to stir.

Here we reconceptualize the notion of presence,

relationality, and re-visibilation of our bodies.

We seek to explore the spaces of indigenous fat studies posing the question,

what does indigenous fat studies look like?

Fatness is intersectionally experienced,

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