susanstinson

I talked to Katie Lebesco, who wrote Revolting Bodies? (http://www.umass.edu/umpress/fall_03/lebesco.html) a little about this this weekend. Years ago she told me that she had unexpectedly lost a lot of weight, and that the sudden transformation in how much better she was treated everywhere she went made her very furious. What I remember her saying at the time was that she knew that the odds were that she would gain the weight back, and so she wanted to do everything she could while she had temporary privilege as a thin person to make things easier for fat people. That's when she started doing her academic work on fat people.

It'd be lovely if you decided to come to Nolose next year. It's a friendly bunch.