Fat Studies, Volume 12, Issue 2 (2023)

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Fat Studies, Volume 12, Issue 2 (2023)

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Fat Kinship

Foreword

Fat kinship: an introduction
Cindy Baker
Pages: 189-191
Published online: 23 Apr 2023
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Articles

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Fat politics as a constituent of intersecting intimacies
Kimberly Dark & Lucy Aphramor
Pages: 192-204
Published online: 25 Mar 2022
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Fat beyond the fetish: toward a theory of fat-forward sexuality
Jonathan Najarian & Katherine Nee
Pages: 205-219
Published online: 02 Feb 2022
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Comfy fat queer love: affective digital resistance through kinship
Mackenzie Edwards
Pages: 220-232
Published online: 27 Jan 2022
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Self-conscious, unapologetic, and straight: fat protagonists in romantic fiction
Shana McDavis-Conway
Pages: 233-242
Published online: 14 Apr 2022
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Psychological kinship between fat therapists and fat patients: healing and solidarity around stigma, family relationships, and body image
Breanne Fahs
Pages: 243-259
Published online: 28 Dec 2020
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Closer. Fatness, desire, and seeing as touching
Magdalena Hutter
Pages: 260-272
Published online: 15 Feb 2022
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Hollywood’s slim pickings for fat characters: A textual analysis of Gilmore Girls, Sweet Magnolias, This is Us, Shrill, and Dietland
Lyla E. E. Byers & Heidi M. Williams
Pages: 273-285
Published online: 22 Feb 2022
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Fat bodies, intimate relationships and the self in finnish and American weight-loss TV shows
Susanne Ritter
Pages: 286-298
Published online: 28 Jan 2022
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Successfully and deliciously fugacious: re-interpreting the “failed” fat relationship in Percy Adlon’s Zuckerbaby (1985)
Erin Gizewski
Pages: 299-310
Published online: 02 Feb 2022
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“It has literally been a lifesaver”: the role of “knowing kinship” in supporting fat women to navigate medical fatphobia
Carolin Kost & Kimberly Jamie
Pages: 311-324
Published online: 17 Feb 2022
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Fat kinship for love and liberation: a dialogue across difference
Caleb Luna & Jules Pashall
Pages: 325-337
Published online: 31 Jan 2022
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Regular Articles

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Epistemic injustice and Body Mass Index: Examining Māori and Pacific women’s access to fertility treatment in Aotearoa New Zealand
Rhonda M. Shaw & Edmond Fehoko
Pages: 338-352
Published online: 12 Apr 2022
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Coming home: devised somatic dance
Carly-Ann Haney & Marie France Forcier
Pages: 353-369
Published online: 20 Sep 2022
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Observing weight stigma in the editing of UK factual welfare programming
Jayne Raisborough, Lisa Taylor, Katherine Harrison & Shelly Dulson
Pages: 370-383
Published online: 19 Sep 2022
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Trans/fat: an autoethnographic exploration of becoming at the intersection of trans and fat
Bek J. Orr
Pages: 384-400
Published online: 11 Nov 2022
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“Big Luther” discourse: cultural longing and the signification of Luther Vandross in African American popular culture
Marlon Rachquel Moore
Pages: 401-418
Published online: 01 Dec 2022
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Lizzo’s Black, Female, and Fat Resistance
by Niya Pickett Miller and Gheni N. Platenburg, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2021.
Rachele Salvatelli
Pages: 419-422
Published online: 25 Jan 2022
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Book Review
Weight bias in health education: critical perspectives for pedagogy and practice
edited by Heather Brown and Nancy Ellis-Ordway, London, Routledge, 2021, USD $160 (hardback), ISBN 9780367522308
Meredith Bessey
Pages: 423-425
Published online: 21 Feb 2022
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No filter and other lies
by Crystal Maldonado, New York, NY, Holiday House, 2022
Melody McMullan
Pages: 426-429
Published online: 11 May 2022
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Feminist theology and contemporary dieting culture: sin, salvation and women’s weight loss narratives
by Hannah Bacon, London, T & T Clark, 2019.
Roger Chabot
Pages: 430-432
Published online: 23 Jun 2022
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To Be Honest
by Maggie Ann Martin, New York, Swoon Reads, 2018.
Judith Schreier
Pages: 433-435
Published online: 16 Sep 2022
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More of You: The Fat Girl’s Field Guide to the Modern World
by Amanda Martinez Beck, Minneapolis, Broadleaf Books, 2022.
Peter Browning
Pages: 436-438
Published online: 05 Oct 2022
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