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Fat Studies: Rights, Personhood, Disposability conference (virtual).

This online conference will provide the opportunity for academics and activists around the world to consider fat rights, personhood, and disposability.

Fat Studies is a post-disciplinary field of study that confronts and critiques cultural constraints against notions of “fatness” and “the fat body”; explores fat bodies as they live in, are shaped by, and remake the world; and theorises how society conceptualises and pathologises fat bodies. Fat Studies scholars identify and discuss mainstream and alternative discourses on fatness, analyse size as a social justice issue at the intersection of oppression, and critically appraise size oppression as it is manifested in various societal institutions (medicine, media, education, etc).

For more information about the programme and to register, please visit: https://www.fsnz.org/fsnz-2022#20summary