FAT is not an F-word! The radical practice of fat joy

Join Big Ideas host Natasha Mitchell with three women embracing the radical practice of finding joy in big bodies. Fat bodies are often stigmatised, stereotyped, shamed, medicalised, and politicised. Even the word F.A.T gets denigrated. But there is another way. Reckoning with eating disorders and society's limitations, Dani, Evie, and Kalpana are no longer holding back from the delights of food, fashion, dance, ocean swimming, and more. Hear why, for them, the personal is political. But can expectations to be fat and jolly become a burden too? What about the radical act of just being and big? This event was hosted and organised by the inaugural Fat Joy Festival and the 11th International Weight Stigma Conference Speakers Dani Galvin (aka Dani Adriana) Content creator and body positivity and mental health advocate Fat peer support facilitator Co-creator, plus-size pop-culture inspired costumes and accessories Bachelor of Counselling graduate Evie (Evangeline) Gardener Public health researcher and advocate PhD student University of Queensland Kalpana Prasad Performer, facilitator, choreographer with Bring a Plate Dance company Postgraduate speech pathology student Disability support worker Thanks to Dr Lily O'Hara from Griffith University, the convenor of the Fat Joy Festival and the 11th International Weight Stigma Conference. Further reading and viewing How we think about obesity and body weight is changing, here's why (article co-athored by Evie Gardener) The Real Cost of Appearance Ideals and Discrimination report (The Butterfly Foundation) Fat Joy Podcast The body is not an apology by Sonya Renee Taylor What we talk about when we talk about FAT by Aubrey Gordon You have the right to remain fat by Virgie Tovar "Fat" isn't a bad word — it's just a way I describe my body by Aubrey Gordon Selling Stigma: Afflictive Power and Fat Oppression - presentation by Rachel Fox

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