Professor works to advance fat justice | The College Fix
A professor at Iowa State University is working to advance a concept called fat justice as part of his overall scholarly body of work highlighting those not traditionally centered in
student equity and justice discourses.TJ Stewart, assistant professor in the School of Education at Iowa State, is known in academic circles for research focused on stigmatized identities, what he describes as the margins of the margins, the University Innovation Alliance reports.
He recently co-authored a scholarly journal article headlined Feeling good as hell : Black women and the nuances of fat resistance. The headline is a reference to a song by the popular pop singer Lizzo about feeling good about yourself.
I would probably object to the methodology but I can attest that fat people are definitely discriminated against. But whatcha going to do? They’re (and we were formerly but now much less so) fat! Be nice to fat people, people. If you cut us, do we not bleed, etc. Besides, something like 30 percent of Americans are obese? That’s a lot.