00:00:00.180Hi everybody, this is Gadsad. Some of you know that I periodically will read an important academic paper stemming from feminist studies or critical race theory or of course post-modernism.
00:00:17.620Today I've got a really powerful paper from Fat Studies. As a matter of fact, let me just read it here for you. This is, the journal is called Fat Studies, an interdisciplinary journal of body weight and society.
00:00:34.740The article was just published online, which is very exciting because I'm glad that we were able to rush this paper to the world.
00:00:45.180It's by Faith Stadnik. She is at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation, which interestingly, it's written here, the acronym is FIST because they are fisting through reason, logic, common sense, and science.
00:01:06.860The title of the article is, Co-Healthism in Health at Every Size, Aligned TikTok Activism, Transforming the Definition of Healthism via Feminist of Color Disability Studies Theorizing.
00:01:30.940This is not, I mean, I'm going to put the link to the paper. So I'm just going to read the abstract, okay? Just the abstract. You ready?
00:01:44.880This article is a feminist of color disability studies oriented TikTok critical discourse analysis of 100 popular health at every size TikToks.
00:01:59.880It evaluates the power relations surrounding how health at every size frameworks are disseminated on TikTok and unpacks the implications for fat liberation.
00:02:17.820Health at every size frameworks of care capacitate the eradication of fetical fat mesia.
00:02:27.020Sorry, I usually am able to get through these without laughing, but this is really good.
00:02:33.160And the weight-centered health paradigm.
00:02:37.380While popular among online fat activists, health at every size frameworks have been widely accused of perpetuating healthism.
00:02:53.200You need to engage in fat liberation to get rid of this notion of healthism.
00:03:03.600My analysis makes clear how health at every size discourse is often steeped in ableist, white supremacist, and colonial healthism.
00:03:19.800Through this analysis, I ultimately argue that the definition of healthism needs to shift to center ableism, white supremacy, and colonialism,
00:03:33.000as well as the co-constituting nature of how systems of oppression aggregate to weaponize health against those with embodiments marked as unhealthy.
00:03:47.320I argue that this shift is necessary to produce analyses committed to radical solidarity.
00:03:59.220I mark this shift by coining and utilizing the term co-healthism.
00:04:04.920To demonstrate the need for my argument, I organize the results into three themes.
00:04:12.280Healthist ableism, healthist white supremacy, and healthist colonialism, and health at every size discourse.
00:04:22.740In the discussion, I clarify the co-constitutive nature of these themes and argue for the shift from healthism to co-healthism.
00:04:36.100I also define the concept and explain its methodological potentialities.
00:04:45.200Some of you may know that over the past few years, I have lost quite a bit of weight.
00:04:57.800I have returned to my glorious, svelte physique, but there was a time where I weighed as much as a NFL middle linebacker,
00:05:10.480albeit I wasn't endowed with the height of a NFL middle linebacker.
00:05:16.440And it turned out that I fell prey to the white supremacist notion that it is not healthy to be overweight.
00:05:30.160And so what I did is I started eating a lot more healthily in that I restricted my calories to, you know, 15, 1600 calories a day.
00:05:39.820I committed to doing at least 15,000 to 20,000 steps a day.
00:05:47.620And I ended up losing from my highest recorded weight to my lowest recorded weight, 86 pounds.
00:05:55.300I discussed this, by the way, in my latest book on happiness.
00:05:58.780Now, this paper has clearly demonstrated to me that I was promulgating white supremacy.
00:06:07.500As the paper, this academic paper published in an academic journal has argued that this, to promulgate the notion that, you know, you're not healthy at any size is part and parcel of white supremacy and colonialism.
00:06:27.180For that, I apologize and I'm sorry that I did it.
00:06:31.600And, uh, I will try to return to being a walrus as a means to fight for fat liberation.