This was apparently part of a ‘Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium.’ What a surprise.
The College Fix reports:
UW-Madison bars reporters from ‘fat liberation’ event“Health is not just about health,” Kelsey Foster, a university librarian, said at the Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium conference on April 10 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.“We reject the idea that a body type can be a disease,” she said. “It’s possible to be fat and healthy, fat and unhealthy, thin and healthy, thin and unhealthy.”The university prohibited The College Fix and other media from taking any photos as well as recording audio and video. About 25 people attended the event. Recording is prohibited throughout the entire three-day panel held at the publicly-funded university. The conference is titled “Embodying Feminism: Calling In, Calling Out, Calling to Action.”Foster (pictured) gave a presentation titled “Fat Girl Glossary.” She has been “an active member of online fat positive communities for over a decade,” according to her talk description.She spoke on a panel titled “Embodying and Embracing Fatness as Liberation” that consisted of three 20-minute presentations and a Q&A session.Foster began her talk with a slide that contained a Tumblr post that read: “Just a reminder that I’m FAT and HAPPY and if you don’t like that then that is entirely your problem :)) – double chin smile just 4 u.”Her talk focused on the various terms used in online fat-culture communities.“We have words we use sometimes to combat the tyranny of the BMI,” she said, referring to Body Mass Index.Throughout her talk, Foster defined various terms such as “Deathfatty” and “Infinifat” which both refer to morbid obesity.Other terms mentioned in her talk included “fat positivity,” which she defined as the belief that fatness is a good thing and fat people are good people; “body positivity,” meaning all bodies are good bodies; “Body Neutrality,” the idea that the body is neither good nor bad- it just is; and “fat liberation,” which she said imagines a future free from oppression based on body size and the tyranny of “healthism.”
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