Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You
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Sofie Hagen. Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You
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Dedication
Introduction
1. My fat body. I was a child
Teenage years
Early twenties
2. We need a fat Disney princess, and how to actually ask for one
Fat in stand-up
We need a fat Disney princess
Hollywood
AN INTERVIEW WITH. Stephanie Yeboah. London
3. Public bathrooms and other places where fat people can get stuck
AN INTERVIEW WITH. Dina Amlund. Denmark
4. Clothes and why it’s okay to dress almost exclusively in orange
Fat women are not allowed to wear trousers
Ah, summer
5. Love, friendship and fat fucking
Shit people say to fat people
The big fat friendships
The unfuckables
AN INTERVIEW WITH. Kivan Bay. Southern Oregon, USA
6. Why you should chuck your scales in a bin. Oh, how we want to be thin
How we try to lose the weight: Diets
Weight-loss surgery
Diet pills
It’s really about control
Mmmmm, control and immortality, yum
Food
Exercise
7 ‘But what about health?’ But what about you shut up?
David Allison and the 400,000 deaths
Does it work to make people feel ashamed of their weight? Does that make them actually lose weight?
But is it really about health?
By the way, get the fuck out of my health
So, imagine …
AN INTERVIEW WITH. Matilda Ibini. London
8. How to be a good friend to fat people
Understand your thin privilege
Understanding
‘You can just borrow one of my shirts!’
Watch your fucking language
Amplify
Be intersectional
Speak up
Take action
Know your place
And why should you care about fat people?
9. How to love your body
Unlearn everything
Challenging ‘the truth’
Daily affirmations
Exposure
Cut it out
Stop fleeing
Break the rules
Your inner thinnie
Unlearning food guilt
Join the community
Failure, flaws, mistakes, and not feeling good enough
10. Afterthought
We need a complete financial, governmental, socioeconomic and political change
FAT LIBERATION MANIFESTO. by Judy Freespirit and Aldebaran. November, 19731
Thank you
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Footnotes. Introduction
1. My fat body
2. We need a fat Disney princess, and how to actually ask for one
Interview: Stephanie Yeboah
3. Public bathrooms and other places where fat people can get stuck
4. Clothes and why it’s okay to dress almost exclusively in orange
5. Love, friendship and fat fucking
Interview: Kivan Bay
6. Why you should chuck your scales in a bin
7. ‘But what about health?’ But what about you shut up?
Interview: Matilda Ibini
8. How to be a good friend to fat people
9. How to love your body
10. Afterthought
End notes. Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Interview: Kivan
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Fat Liberation Manifesto
About the Author
About the Publisher
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To the canaries in the coal mine
Title Page
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That was me. Hello.
That evening, I was wearing a beautiful gala dress. I had come from a television set, so I was wearing television make-up – which is like normal make-up but with extra layers and done by a person tutting over the state of your skin. (Or like that one make-up artist who tried to wrap me in a giant scarf because my chest was ‘so ugly’.)
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