Facing Fatphobia

People with fat bodies experience discrimination throughout their lives, manifested through social shame, medical bias, and more. While the fat acceptance movement has pushed our culture forward, we’re still steeped in stigma against fat people. For more learning about fat activism, see fat activist Aubrey Gordon’s reading list.

These ongoing works address anti-fat bias through a transformation of the body. By removing heads and pulling expressions into the body, I reflect on my own struggles with living in a fat body, unable to extricate my experience of the world from my and others’ perceptions of my body.