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I Interrupted An Ob*sity Conference With Fat Friends. Here’s Why.

I Interrupted An Ob*sity Conference With Fat Friends. Here’s Why.

101: We were instructed to line up in single file so we could bust through the doors of the lecture hall during the keynote.

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Jul 05, 2022
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Note: I add an asterisk to the word ob*sity to indicate a critique of the pathologizing and medicalizing language that is applied to fat people. Being in a larger body is not a disease that needs to …

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