A platonic love letter, long in the making, to Dr. Esther Rothblum: reflections on “scholarly friends” and the importance of fat, lesbian, feminist leadership in the academy

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Notes

1. Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the oppressed. Continuum.

2. Chicago Women’s Liberation Union. (1971). How to start your own consciousness-raising group. Black Maria. https://web.archive.org/web/20031229042323/http://cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/crcwlu.html

3. Mills, C. W. (1959). The sociological imagination. Oxford University Press.

4. For example, see: https://theoutwordsarchive.org/interview/esther-rothblum/; https://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=78473; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GyKdwXVVqw;

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36458842/;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pGDEh0VNKE; https://feministvoices.com/files/profiles/pdf/Esther-Rothblum-Transcript.pdf; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=−9YmBSprtrY;

5. Berg, M, & Seeber, B. K. (2016). The slow professor: Challenging the culture of speed in the academy. University of Toronto Press.

6. Pfeffer, Carla A. (2008). Bodies in relation – bodies in transition: Lesbian partners of trans men. and body image. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 12(4), 325–345. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10894160802278184