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“A Sensual People, and Doomed”

Journal article Ethnic Studies Review · October 1, 2024 Fat studies scholar E. Cassandra Dame-Griff have carefully revealed that Latina/o/x bodies are routinely framed as excessive in their numbers, their assumed reproductive capacities, their overuse of supposedly “American” resources, and in the size ... Full text Cite

“My heart’s fine as long as my stomach’s not empty”: patriarchal horror, women’s excess, and fat liberation in Criminally Insane

Journal article Fat Studies · January 1, 2024 Slasher film Criminally Insane might be understood as one that capitalizes upon and perhaps even further entrenches existing societal anti-fatness in mid-century America. Its fat protagonist, Ethel, wields a butcher knife against those who constrain her ac ... Full text Cite

Review of Rev. Dr. E-K Daufin's On Fat and Faith: Ending Weight Stigma in Yourself, Your Sanctuary and Society

Journal article Excessive Bodies: A Journal of Artistic and Critical Fat Praxis and World Making · December 6, 2023 Rev. Dr. E-K Daufin’s On Fat and Faith: Ending Weight Stigma in Yourself, Your Sanctuary and Society is part memoir, part self-help book, fusing to create a whole that provides readers with fellowship and concrete strategies for uprooting anti-Fatn ... Full text Cite