The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - December 12, 2024


Exciting New Field - Indigenous Fat Studies! (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_766)


Episode Stats

Length

6 minutes

Words per Minute

112.05249

Word Count

723

Sentence Count

43

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

14


Summary

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Indigenously, Fatly, and Indigenous Fat Studies is a special issue of the journal Fat Studies. This special issue will cover a variety of topics around the conceptualization, actualization, and embodiment of indigenous fat studies and fat indigeneity and what this may look like to us as indigenous people.

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00:00:00.200 Hi everybody, I settled in to work on suicidal empathy and I was working on a section on fat studies and fat acceptance
00:00:13.040 because it's empathetic to tell people who weigh as much as whales that it's healthy for them to be at any size.
00:00:21.680 It's better to lie to them than to hurt their feelings about being fat.
00:00:25.460 And so as I was doing my research, I came across this very, very exciting special issue and I'm going to read it for you verbatim and prepare for it to be in suicidal empathy.
00:00:37.760 You ready? This is good.
00:00:41.080 So this is in the journal Fat Studies and it's a call for a special issue on indigenously fat, fatly indigenous.
00:00:55.460 All right, so here we go.
00:00:57.920 Indigenously fat, fatly indigenous.
00:01:01.720 Hei kanohi kitea kahoki nega mahara is a well-known Maori wakatoki proverb.
00:01:11.780 It encapsulates one of the integral principles of teao Maori, the Maori world,
00:01:17.580 and kopapa Maori, Maori philosophy, ways of being, knowing, seeing.
00:01:24.420 It reiterates the importance of being seen, being present, and being remembered.
00:01:28.880 It highlights the value of wakka, wano, gatanga, good relationships, and of the ways we indigenous peoples relate to each other through presence.
00:01:39.880 When considering this way of conceptualizing the significance of re-visibilization,
00:01:47.220 we seek to rethink and reshape our indigenous knowledge.
00:01:53.580 A familiar body, a seen body, causes memories to flow, memories to stir.
00:02:09.440 Here we reconceptualize the notion of presence, relationality, and re-visibilization of our bodies.
00:02:20.680 We seek to explore the spaces of indigenous fat studies, posing the question,
00:02:26.920 what does indigenous fat studies look like?
00:02:30.200 Fatness is intersectionally experienced, and for those of us who occupy multiple identities that are minoritized,
00:02:39.960 our experiences of navigating fatness are complex.
00:02:43.500 We invite papers for a special issue of fat studies in Interdisciplinary Journal of Body, Weight, and Society
00:02:49.780 on indigenously fat and fatly indigenous.
00:02:54.860 This special issue will encompass a variety of topics around the conceptualization, actualization,
00:03:04.540 and embodiment of indigenous fat studies and fat indigeneity,
00:03:09.940 and what this may look like to us as indigenous people.
00:03:14.440 So they go on to explain what the submission instructions are.
00:03:19.900 I'll skip that.
00:03:20.740 And then here are some of the topics.
00:03:22.020 For those of you who are thinking of maybe submitting an article, so welcome topics include but are not limited to.
00:03:28.820 So these are just suggestions.
00:03:30.300 If you don't want to specifically focus on these, you know, there are other things that you could study
00:03:35.240 at the intersection of indigeneity and fatness, but these are some of the ones that they're proposing.
00:03:40.520 So developing indigenous fat studies, indigenous experiences of fatness,
00:03:46.200 indigenous languages of fatness, the intersections of fatness, indigeneity, queerness, disability, age, and sexuality,
00:03:59.100 shifts in fat social justice related to indigenous sovereignty,
00:04:03.980 being indigenous and fat, being indigenous and fat within social context,
00:04:08.260 example, relationships, families, legal systems, health and medicine, employment, education, housing, religion, politics, media, etc.
00:04:16.420 What does fat indigenous joy, hope, sovereignty, and reclamation look like?
00:04:23.100 Being socially assigned as indigenous and fat, bodily autonomy, boundary, and bodily surveillance,
00:04:32.800 and bodily transitions in the fight for fat indigenous sovereignty.
00:04:39.420 Sovereignty, right on, free to fat.
00:04:43.120 Challenges, oppression, decolonizing, and re-indigenizing fat indigenous experiences and realities.
00:04:52.160 Flax roots, earth roots, indigenous fat initiatives, and socializations.
00:04:59.660 I have no idea what that means, but that's probably because I'm neither fat nor indigenous,
00:05:05.600 so probably that epistemology is not open to me.
00:05:08.220 Building and promoting solidarity for fat indigeneity.
00:05:13.460 The state of legal protections for weight, body size, and shape.
00:05:18.220 The role of resilience, resistance, activism, relationships, and sovereignty for fat indigenous peoples.
00:05:27.280 Necessary intersections, solidarity, and allies in the context of fat indigeneity,
00:05:33.260 example, anti-racist, anti-sexist, etc.
00:05:36.020 And then art for fat indigeneity.
00:05:41.500 There's a lot of stuff that you could study.
00:05:44.360 It's an exciting special issue.
00:05:46.760 I think this is taxpayer money that is well spent.
00:05:52.420 I don't know if, I don't think that this journal is from the United States.
00:05:59.620 I'm not exactly sure where it's housed.
00:06:01.620 But I hope that Doge, you know, the Elon Musk et al. program never slashes the funding of this journal
00:06:10.160 because this is the kind of research that we should be exploring.
00:06:14.140 How does fatness intersect with indigeneity and intersects with queerness?
00:06:20.760 Once you put these three together.
00:06:22.340 Have a good day, everybody.