Happy Fat

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Sofie Hagen. Happy Fat

Copyright

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

Recommendations

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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Some people have fathers who do positive PR for fat women from an early age. I remember falling in love with him for just this reason. It was hard to believe that other people like that existed. Most people will have parents who tell them to ‘never get fat’, who will pinch their own stomach fat and say ‘eww’ and who will point at fat people in the shops and say words like ‘lazy’, ‘stupid’ or ‘gross’. The negative attitude towards weight is so all-encompassing that the chances are that whoever you meet has been taught to hate fatness, long before they even had a chance to make up their own minds about what it is they like and don’t like.

So I spent all of my teenage years hating myself, hating fatness and hating women and hating thin women, hating people who loved me and hating myself. I wasted so much time. I wasted so much money on attempting to make my body smaller.

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