09/04/2021
Some folks had feelings about me using the word FAT in my inclusivity post.
We are a fat positive space.
I want to talk more about this - for studios cut the disordered eating/calorie/diet culture promo, straight sized teachers stop making jokes you are "fat" after covid, troupe directors make sure your costumes go beyond XL sizing + you don't have your lone fat dancer in the back wearing a random colour....But it seems like we first need to just talk about the word FAT itself.
"No matter how people use it, fat is not a bad word. Fat is not an indication of value, health, beauty, or performance. Fat is a descriptor in the same way that black and q***r are descriptors. And fat is somewhat similar to black and q***r in more than just that way; it's also a word that encompasses a marginalized identity. Yes, fat is a neutral and descriptive word, but when it's an identity, it's much more than that. To reclaim this word, or any word, is to lean into an identity as a form of revolution against fat phobia, racism, and so much more. For me, fat is a way of saying “f*ck you.”"
https://www.teenvogue.com/favicon.ico
"We need to talk about the word fat. Specifically, we as a collective society need to make room for understanding fat the way many plus-size people do: as a neutral, even affirming, term."
https://www.self.com/story/fat-isnt-bad-word
"The ‘f-a-t’ word hangs off your lips tentatively as you question if you should use it on this person you barely know. You’re unsure of how they’ll react so instead, you say ‘curvy’, ‘chubby’, ‘thick’, or like we say in Pidgin English: ‘you get body, small”. Those are safer options. But when you do this, you perpetuate the stigma built around the word and if they react negatively, they do too."
https://aninjusticemag.com/fat-is-not-a-bad-word-ac7f981099e4
