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Time Capsule Ep #4: Our Fat Culture Sommelier

It’s another Time Capsule episode, babies! We’re pulling out this pop culture deep dive recorded back in February of this year — friend of the pod Abi joins us to talk Dream Daddies, Brooklyn 99, and being a REAL thin ally!

In this Ep:

@human_espresso / History of Police Show Procedurals

The Meat of It:
Abi on Insta / Abi's site / our last ep with Abigail / Untitled Goose Game / Dream Daddy / Brooklyn 99 / our Fat(suit) Like Me episode / Gwyneth Paltrow Regrets Shallow Hal / Fat Comedians episode / B99 Season 3 Ep 1 / @ our thin friends episode

 
 

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5.8 destroying the covid-19 fat joke w/ YrFatFriend

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In this episode, we’re talking about FAT JOKES THAT ARE ON OUR LAST NERVE IN QUARANTINE TIMES feat. our fave recurring anon guest, Your Fat Friend.

PATREON DRIVE!

Join Team Paisley Mumu in the next month to be part of our BABYSITTERS CLUB. That means weekly lives with Sophie giggling at a chapter, special shoutout next episode, group crafts, and maybe even something special in the mail ;) 

BOOKCLUB:

Fearing the Black Body / Black Owned Bookstores / bookclub webpage

  • From Laila:

  • From Lynn:

    • Listen to the School House Rock song “The Great American Melting Pot

    • In this Chpt we learned that the phrase “The Great American Melting Pot” originally referred to white Anglo Saxon Europeans immigrating to the U.S. and having babies with one another, melding together their “most attractive” (according to white supremacy) features and creating an attractive crop of white Americans.

      • Journal:

        1) Did you learn about “The Great American Melting Pot” in History class? What did your class talk about?

        2) How does School House Rock paint the idea of the melting pot? What do they focus on in this song?

        3) Is School House Rock propaganda? lol but like really is it?

        3) How did you feel reading this Chapter? I know for me, I felt both icky (about history I hadn’t learned) and repulsed (by the hoops Eugenicists were taking to qualify their anti-Black racism. Use the rest of your time to journal about what made you feel how and why!

    • From Yeli:

      • This week, Yeli is challenging fellow non-Black immigrants to journal about immigration and how the process is in relationship with racism and upholding colonization.

        • How can we as immigrants take up space in North America while acknowledging that we benefit from stolen land?

        • How do we engage in dismantling systems of oppression against Black communities?

        • How do we still benefit from these systems that also oppress us?

        • What is our responsibility to grapple with the violence that has occurred on the land we have made a home in?

  • For next week, Read Chapter 7!

THE MEAT OF IT:

Your Fat Friend @yrfatfriend / Season 4 ep / 7 Ways to Uproot Your Anti-Fat Bias / The False Safety of Listening and Learning / How to Love a Fat Person / Find more of Your Fat Friend’s writing here 

CALL TO ACTION: SUPPORT THE BLACK AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES OF CHICAGO

You have probably heard about the extreme violence the US government is deploying on Portland protestors. The president announced on July 20th that he was expanding this “federal crackdown” to other major cities, notably Chicago. Chicago obviously has a much larger population of Black and Indigenous people than Portland — and we need to come together with solidarity and support. 

There are a lot of resources out there to learn and contribute to. I want to point you to the Chi-Nations Youth Council — follow their instagram to WITNESS what is happening in Chicago; if you’re in Chicago, show up to their rallies if you’re able, and if not, contribute by sharing their info and donating to their paypal. 

And to our Black/Indigenous fatmily members in Chicago and elsewhere, stay safe. We love you. 

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5.4 Centering Black Women

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In this episode, we’re talking with Sophie Williams, AKA OfficialMillennialBlack on Insta, about her upcoming book, not centering whiteness, and the love triangle between fatphobia, racism, and misogyny.

Bookclub: Fearing the Black Body / Black Owned Bookstores 

Here are some more questions and thoughts to guide your reading and reflection of the first two chapters of Sabrina String's Fearing the Black Body:

  • First of all, I wanted to give you some thoughts on how to approach a more academic book, if you're new to or unfamiliar with this kind of reading! 1. If you run across words you don't know, feel free to look them up! Approaching a more academic text like this is a balance of looking things up and using context clues to noodle out what's going on and accepting you might not understand every sentence exactly. 2. Make sure you read the intro! It's a little dense, but it's a great layout of the overall argument the book will make and the plan for that argument, which helps me situate my reading and helps with those context clues. 3. Look at endnotes! They can be both fun, interesting, and helpful in exploring a text like this. Note 20, for example, gives you a handy list of other books about fatness to read. Endnotes can also give you more rich detail that the author wanted to share but doesn't quite fit in the sequential steps of the argument being made. 4. Don't hesitate to make notes of things, concepts, sentences you don't understand or don't remember and might be interested in further reading or googling of! I spent a little time looking at some of the artists mentioned in Chapter 1 on wikipedia and google images, for example. Okay, now questions - send us your answers to these, if you'd like to be featured!

  • 1. Have you ever noticed a focus on "concerns over ascetics, not aesthetics" (p.63) in portrayals of the fatness or thinness of men? How might our modern imaginings of a lean, lanky academic/intellectual character play into this? (I hope this idea is tracked more throughout the book, it's a super interesting one!)

  • 2. If you've ever wandered through a museum from art of this time period, or looked at it in books, have you ever been presented with this kind of lens? What are the general ways you've been taught to look at artworks that are missing a lens of racial analysis?

  • 3. Can you sum up the arguments being made in chapters one and two in a few sentences?

  • 4. How does it feel to view cultural attitudes towards fatness as having changed over time, instead of from within the current cultural moment which seeks to impose a universality on our fatphobia?

  • Take a further look into the types of Renaissance paintings that Dr. Strings analyzes in Chapter 1. Then, take out a paper and draw yourself. Think about what you focus on, and why. 

  • Journal about how art and storytelling play a role in perpetuating anti-Black racism in the Chapter 2. How has this changed from then till now? How has it remained the same? In what ways are we complicit?

Resources on “Womxn” vs “Women”: this twitter thread / this video on the origin of the phrase “women of color”  / the body is not an apology article / 

The Meat of It: Sophie Williams / Millennial Black / Insta post that started it all / Slay in Your Lane / All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave / Candice Brathwaite / Bizarre & Racist History of the bmi /  How we fail black patients’ pain / Nonwhite patients get less pain relief in US emergency rooms / post: how black people in the UK are disproportionately being affected by COVID / BAME Britains twice as likely to die from COVID / Govt Censorship on BAME report / how to cope if you're a black woman and feeling exhausted / the trevor project / pre-order millennial black 
Sophie’s picks: anti-racist ally / keeping up the momentum / for black women who are exhausted 

Call to Action: Read “What, to Black Lives, is the 4th of July?” by Antwan Herron.

Read, reflect, and share this piece over this weekend — the 4th. Remember that when we call July 4th “Independence Day,” who that Independence included. 

“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems [is] inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.” - Frederick Douglass 

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Editing and Sound Design by Laila Oweda.

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3.1 @ Our Thin Friends

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This week we discuss thin allyship, Mitski, and routing for everybody black.

This episode of She’s All Fat is also sponsored by 1 Second Everyday, a video diary app that helps you create, remember, and share your life story, 1 second at a time. The app is free in the Google Play Store and $4.99 in The App Store. Start capturing memories today! Future you will thank you.

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Mentioned in this episode:

I’m Obsessed:  Ariana Grande's Sweetener.. Black Lightning. Mitski. Meaty by Samantha Irby.

The Meat Of It: MD Spicer-Sitzes. MD’s Upcoming Workshop (Oct 20th)! The Body Positive. Building Allies. Quartz.NPR on BMI. No Weigh! You Have the Right to Remain Fat. The Infamous Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. How to Tell the Difference Between Real Solidarity and ‘Ally Theater’. Kimberle Crenshaw’s TedTalk.

MD’s Instagram Recommendations: Nalgona Positivity Pride. The Body Positive. The Body is Not an Apology. Ample.

It’s Okay, You Can Ask: We Buy Black.

 

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