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Fat is Contagious... by Kimberly Brittingham

#s:fat | If you've ridden the buses of New York lately, perhaps you've seen me, quietly reading, FAT IS CONTAGIOUS: How Sitting Next to a Fat Person Can Make YOU Fat. The cover further reads: "One doctor's discovery of the direct correlation between her sudden weight gain of over 100 lbs. after a long bus journey seated beside an obese woman -- and the eye-opening research that followed."

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SFF’s Big Fat Problem

#s:fat #t:article/essay | I wasn’t kidding when I say this all blends to white noise. I don’t keep an inventory of all the places I met a little fatphobia and flinched at it and moved on. I remember the worst of my childhood reads, occasional clear flashes from the vast library of my teens, and what I’ve read in the last few months and discussed with fat friends and partners and colleagues. The hurt of most fatphobic moments remains as hypervigilance when a fat character appears, as tension waiting for the whip, not memory of every slight and injury.

2 years ago | View Shared by zeiat