Hi everybody this is Gatsad some of you know that I periodically will read an

important academic paper stemming from feminist studies or or critical race theory or of course postmodernism.

Today I've got a really powerful paper from fat studies. As a matter of fact, let me just read it here for you.

This is the journal is called Fat Studies, an interdisciplinary journal of body weight and society.

The article was just published online, which is very exciting because, you know, I'm glad that

we were able to rush this paper to the world.

It's by Faith Stadnik.

She is at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation, which interestingly it's written here,

the acronym is Fist because they are fisting through reason, logic, common sense, and science.

The title of the article is Co-Healthism in health at every size, aligned tick-talk activism, transforming the definition of healthism via feminist of color disability studies theorizing.

This is not, I mean I'm going to put the link to the paper. So I'm just going to read the abstract, okay? Just the abstract. You ready?

This taxpayer funded work, I'm presuming. This article is a feminist of color disability studies oriented

Tic-Tok critical discourse analysis of 100 popular health at every size

Tiktok's. It evaluates the power relations surrounding how health at every size frameworks are disseminated on Tik-Toc and unpacks the implications for fat liberation.

Health at every size frameworks of care capacitate the eradication of fettico fattmeasia.

Sorry, I usually am able to get through these without laughing but this is really good.

And the weight centered health paradigm, while popular among online fat activists, health at every size frameworks have been widely accused of perpetuating healthism. Did you get that? You need to engage in fat liberation to get rid of this notion of healthism. My analysis makes clear how health at every size discourse

is often steeped, enablest, white supremacist, and colonial healthism.

Through this analysis I ultimately argue that the definition of healthism needs to shift to center

ableism, white supremacy, and colonialism,

as well as the co-constituting nature

of how systems of oppression aggregate

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