The University of Maryland is now introducing "Fat Studies."
Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) ~ University of Maryland to offer ‘Intro to Fat Studies’ course
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3240544/university-of-maryland-to-offer-intro-to-fat-studies-course/
Future Maryland graduate walking the graduation stage to collect her "Fat Studies" diploma, summa cum bacon & mayonnaise ...
Miller writes:
The University of Maryland is offering a course called “Intro to Fat Studies: Fatness, Blackness and Their Intersections” this spring.
The three-credit course will be taught by Professor Sydney Lewis on Tuesdays and Thursdays and looks at “fatness as intersectional,” particularly highlighting “the relationship between fatness and blackness,” according to the course description. ...
“Intro to Fat Studies” will examine “fatness as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersects with other systems of oppression based on gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and ability.”
“We approach this area of study through an interdisciplinary humanities and social-science lens which emphasizes fatness as a social justice issue,” the description said.
“The course closes with an examination of fat liberation as liberation for all bodies with a particular emphasis on performing arts and activism as a vehicle for liberation and challenging fatmisia,” according to the description.
"Fatmisia" is defined as the hatred of fatness.
The course closes with an examination of "fat liberation."
"Fat liberation" final exam = (1) crash diet and continuous exercise, or (2) liposuction.
University to Offer’Intro to Fat Studies’
http://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/11/25/university-to-offerintro-to-fat-studies-n2404254
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