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Fat Studies

Subject Areas: Nutrition and Dietetics
Publisher: Routledge - Taylor & Francis
ISSN: 2160-4851
SJR: 14

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Doggone fat: an analysis of the barriers to top surgery for fat trans and nonbinary people in Canada

Slothouber, Van

2024 Fat Studies

doi:10.1080/21604851.2024.2321418

The use of BMI to determine eligibility for gender-affirming surgeries, specifically for top surgery, is not based in science. The present work analyzes current policies regarding BMI limits alongside research participants’ experiences with BMI limits when attempting to access gender-affirming...
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Challenges of #bodypositivity: social media and hashtag activism

Khonach, Torisha; Kurz, Anna

2024 Fat Studies

doi:10.1080/21604851.2024.2328405

Fat liberation movements seeking to dismantle systematic discrimination against fat bodies have been active in the U.S for over 50 years. Body positivity specifically has gained immense traction in the last decade. Recently, body positivity has been used more widely to, supposedly, individually...
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What if Black Studies studied fat for real for real?

Patterson-Faye, Courtney

2024 Fat Studies

doi:10.1080/21604851.2024.2328404

Only four years after Black Studies departments began to form in the US, Johnnie Tillmon, then Chairwoman of the National Welfare Rights Organization, proclaimed in her 1972 article in Ms. magazine that her marginalized intersectional identities – woman, Black, poor, fat, middle-aged, and on...

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