FAT STUDIES

Harvard to offer course on ‘Fat Talk and Thin Ideals’

The course will look at “the emergence of pervasive weight stigma—as manifest in ‘fat shaming’ and even in policy i…

By Elad Vaida
Dec 13, 2024

‘Fat Fashion’ course coming to New School next semester

The course will study the work of “fat activists.”

By Brendan McDonald '25
Nov 28, 2024

University of Maryland to offer ‘Fat Studies’ course about the ‘intersection’ of ‘blackness’ and ‘fatness’

The course ‘[e]xamines fatness as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersec…

By Emma Arns '26
Nov 15, 2024

Northwestern University bans fat jokes

Making weight-related jokes counts as ‘harassing conduct that may create a hostile environment.’

By Patrick McDonald '26
Sep 13, 2024

Penn State hires ‘non-binary’ activist of ‘fat liberation’ who once made a font for ‘people of size’

Brooke Hull, who will begin work on Aug. 1, once co-designed a project ‘that visually represents the intersectional…

By Eann Tang '25
Jul 11, 2024

Northwestern 'Critical Fat Studies' course will study 'queer fat liberation movement'

The class will subject students to many topics surrounding 'fatness,' including 'cultural flashpoints that inform a…

By Mary Stevens '25
Jul 10, 2024

Brown offers pre-college summer course on 'emerging academic field' of Fat Studies

Students will look at ‘the pathologization of fatness in the medical community and the rising prevalence of eating …

By Brendan McDonald '25
Jun 17, 2024

Students learn to put together 'plus sized outfit' in 'Intro to Fat Studies': EXCLUSIVE COURSE DOCS

The University of New Mexico course teaches students that 'antifatness' is another form of oppression.

By Brendan McDonald '25
Feb 17, 2024

Cornell rebrands 'fatness' course after controversy

The initial course, 'Have You Eaten Yet?: QTBIPOC Care,' has been relabeled as 'Care and Marginalization,' which wi…

By Brendan McDonald '25
Sep 8, 2023

'FatCon' is Philly's first 'fat people' convention, featuring ‘superfat’ sex therapist at Temple U

Temple University plans to hold Philly FatCon Halloween weekend in the student center.

By Emma Arns '26
Jul 24, 2023

Catholic university teaches 'transphobia' and 'fatphobia' are products of racism perpetuated through religion

Facilitators will make the case that systems of oppression have been implemented through wide-ranging systems, suc…

By Brendan McDonald '25
Jul 21, 2023

Universities dismiss obesity epidemic contributing to Army's recruiting crisis

The Army is expanding a program to help recruits meet height and weight standards, with the CDC reporting that the …

By Shelby Kearns
Jan 17, 2023

Fat studies is the field that teaches students to view obesity as 'oppression'

Fat Studies is an academic field that 'confronts and critiques cultural constraints against notions of ‘fatness’ an…

By Abigail Streetman '23
Jun 24, 2022

ACADEMICALLY SPEAKING: Anti-health progressives are wrong that America is on the flab-to-fascism track

The left has been enabling unhealthy habits while simultaneously writing off gym and fitness culture as gateways to…

By Zachary Marschall, PhD
Jun 19, 2022

Steven Crowder delivers fake ‘Fatness as Self-Care in the Era of Trump’ paper in drag at Fat Studies conference

Crowder adopted the false identity of activist Sea Matheson to present his artificial findings.

By Katelynn Richardson '22
Mar 28, 2022

Celebrate 'Plus Size Appreciation Day' at same school that punishes students for misusing pronouns

The Point Park University student government hosted a 'positivity' event for Plus Size Appreciation day, but made n…

By Addison Pummill '23
Oct 12, 2021

UMD Fat Studies course labels dieting 'special enemy' of diversity

Fat Studies is a field concerned with "offering a sustained critique of anti-fat sentiment, discrimination, and pol…

By Peter Hasson
Dec 1, 2015