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Sep. 16th, 2003 07:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susanstinsonThis Saturday, September 20th, the American Association for Bariatric Surgery is sponoring something that they're calling Walk from Obesity all over the country.
Walking is a beautiful thing. Identifying and resisting discrimination and cruelty based on body size is important. Adapting the traditional tactics and language of grassroots political movements to an event sponsored by those who have an enormous economic stake in a surgerical procedure with unproven health benefits and very clear risks is misleading and dangerous.
I am so grateful that activists in New York City and San Francisco are going to be at the walks in their cities protesting and embodying the radical possibility of fat people and allies taking visible joy in movement, in solidarity, in their own beauty, in themselves as they are.
Nolose activisim
That kind of activism takes courage and creativity. It takes the patience to build communities of support and gorgeous energy to show up in the face of very well organized and sadly well-funded manipulation of fat people's pain and concerns about health.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beccawrites has been writing and thinking about the organizing she's been doing in her journal, and says that she's having fun doing it, too. Make me want to just shout -- go go go go go! (Yep, there will be fat cheerleaders at some of these events, too.)
Walking is a beautiful thing. Identifying and resisting discrimination and cruelty based on body size is important. Adapting the traditional tactics and language of grassroots political movements to an event sponsored by those who have an enormous economic stake in a surgerical procedure with unproven health benefits and very clear risks is misleading and dangerous.
I am so grateful that activists in New York City and San Francisco are going to be at the walks in their cities protesting and embodying the radical possibility of fat people and allies taking visible joy in movement, in solidarity, in their own beauty, in themselves as they are.
Nolose activisim
That kind of activism takes courage and creativity. It takes the patience to build communities of support and gorgeous energy to show up in the face of very well organized and sadly well-funded manipulation of fat people's pain and concerns about health.
beccawrites has been writing and thinking about the organizing she's been doing in her journal, and says that she's having fun doing it, too. Make me want to just shout -- go go go go go! (Yep, there will be fat cheerleaders at some of these events, too.)