When:
March 21, 2016 @ 7:00 pm
2016-03-21T19:00:00+00:00
2016-03-21T19:30:00+00:00
Where:
The Monarch
40-42 Chalk Farm Rd
London NW1 8BG
UK
40-42 Chalk Farm Rd
London NW1 8BG
UK
Cost:
£5
Contact:
What is the link between Queer activism and Fat activism?
Queer people are at the heart of fat activism but fat activism also represents a social movement that has a deeply queer sensibility to it.
Come and see Charlotte Cooper talk about her research, just published by HammerOn Press as Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement.
In this book she lays out a queer genealogy of fat feminism; she proposes that fat can transform how knowledge is generated and owned; she gives amazing examples of how people apply queer to their fat activism, to show that it isn’t just an academic theory; and she shows how fat activism bridges ideological gaps between people. Featuring lawlessness, recklessness, resistance, beauty, weirdness and hope.