Fat Politics: Resources

[susanstinson]

Here are a bunch of resources on fat politics for folks who come to my talk today for Size Matters at Smith College. And, of course, for anybody else who is respectfully interested (ETA: There may be other good links that come up in comments; in fact there already is one to the excellent Body Impolitic.):

Big Fat Blog

Body Image Bibliography

Charlotte Cooper

Council on Size and Weight Discrimination

Fat Activist Network (new!)

Fat Liberation Archives

Fatshionista Livejournal Community

Fatshionista Website

Fat Studies Forum

Fat Studies UK

JunkFood Science

Linda Bacon, especially her Health At Every Size Manifesto

NAAFA
One program I particularly like at NAAFA is The FLARE Project: Fat Legal Advocacy, Rights and Education.

NOLOSE

Obesity timebomb

Susan Stinson
Read fiction! It expands a person's capacity for empathy, imagination and other adventurous qualities crucial to creating gorgeous social change. Good stories make the heart pound and beautiful language quickens the blood.

My books:
Belly Songs: in celebration of fat women
Fat Girl Dances with Rocks
Martha Moody
Venus of Chalk (there's a link to an excerpt here.)