FSN 223 Lecture Notes - Body Image, Intersectionality, Audre Lorde
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Toronto int"l body image film & arts festival. Fat in the city : outlaws and outfits \ founder & director www. bitemefilmfest. com. If you do not define yourself for yourself you will be crunched into other people"s fantasies of you for you and eaten alive. - audre lorde, black queer feminist, essayist & activist (1934 1992) Class: body image, body activism, the clothed body . How fat bodies are normalized as grotesque and the butt of the joke (no pun intended) Fat bodies are the joke in society, not the body as attractive etc. Size and ethnicity shattering the myth of cultural immunity. Not just about images, skinny bodies, fat bodies etc. Wanted a festival about what bodies do. Wanted to illustrate that there isn"t a real ideal body: teeth , amazon . How does clothing define us: so much more than bulk. Similar to civil rights movements, women come together, and become political spaces: creating campaigns etc.
