Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Joeita speaks with Kate Mann, Associate Professor Cornell University's Sage School of Philosophy & author of "Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia," which draws on personal experience & rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it. #fatphobia #body-positivity
Highlights
• The Insidiousness of Fatphobia - Opening Remarks (00:00)
• Society’s Fixation on Weight & the “Ideal Body” (01:07)
• Introducing Kate Manne, Author of “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia” (01:59)
• Philosophical Interest in Misogyny & Fatphobia (02:22)
• Defining Fatphobia (04:17)
• Complicated Relationship Between Fatness & Health (06:03)
• Fatphobia in the Healthcare System (10:15)
• Weigh-In Process & Weight-Inclusive Physicians (12:27)
• Diabetes, BMI & Stigma (13:19)
• Intersections of Fatphobia, Race, Class, Ability & Gender (16:22)
• The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness (18:28)
• Thin-Privilege (19:36)
• Beyond Body-Positivity (22:24)
• Thinsplaining - Book Excerpt (24:22)
• Find the Book “Unshrinking: Facing Fatphobia” (27:51)
• Show Close (28:33)
Guest Bio - penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2196642/kate-manne
Kate Manne is an associate professor of philosophy at Cornell University, where she’s been teaching since 2013. Before that, she was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Manne did her graduate work in philosophy at MIT and is the author of two previous books, Down Girl and Entitled.
“Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia” By Kate Manne - penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722318/unshrinking-by-kate-manne
For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She’s been bullied and belittled for her size, leading to extreme dieting. As a feminist philosopher, she wanted to believe that she was exempt from the cultural gaslighting that compels so many of us to ignore our hunger. But she was not.
Blending intimate stories with the trenchant analysis that has become her signature, Manne shows why fatphobia has become a vital social justice issue. Over the last several decades, implicit bias has waned in every category, from race to sexual orientation, except one: body size. Manne examines how anti-fatness operates—how it leads us to make devastating assumptions about a person’s attractiveness, fortitude, and intellect, and how it intersects with other systems of oppression. Fatphobia is responsible for wage gaps, medical neglect, and poor educational outcomes; it is a straitjacket, restricting our freedom, our movement, our potential.
Reference:
NPR Interview - In 'Unshrinking,' a writer discusses coming out as fat and pushing back against bias
npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/13/1238157663/in-unshrinking-a-writer-argues-that-the-medicalization-of-fatness-leads-to-bias
MS Magazine Article – Fighting Fatphobia and Embracing ‘Unshrinking’: The Ms. Q&A With Kate Manne
msmagazine.com/2024/02/14/kate-manne-unshrinking-fat-women-body-image
Belly of the Beast The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun L. Harrison
akpress.org/belly-of-the-beast.html
To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals, fat Black people in the United States are subject to sociopolitically sanctioned discrimination, abuse, condescension, and trauma.
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Joeita speaks with Kate Mann, Associate Professor Cornell University's Sage School of Philosophy & author of "Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia," which draws on personal experience & rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it. #fatphobia #body-positivity
Highlights
• The Insidiousness of Fatphobia - Opening Remarks (00:00)
• Society’s Fixation on Weight & the “Ideal Body” (01:07)
• Introducing Kate Manne, Author of “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia” (01:59)
• Philosophical Interest in Misogyny & Fatphobia (02:22)
• Defining Fatphobia (04:17)
• Complicated Relationship Between Fatness & Health (06:03)
• Fatphobia in the Healthcare System (10:15)
• Weigh-In Process & Weight-Inclusive Physicians (12:27)
• Diabetes, BMI & Stigma (13:19)
• Intersections of Fatphobia, Race, Class, Ability & Gender (16:22)
• The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness (18:28)
• Thin-Privilege (19:36)
• Beyond Body-Positivity (22:24)
• Thinsplaining - Book Excerpt (24:22)
• Find the Book “Unshrinking: Facing Fatphobia” (27:51)
• Show Close (28:33)
Guest Bio - penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2196642/kate-manne
Kate Manne is an associate professor of philosophy at Cornell University, where she’s been teaching since 2013. Before that, she was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Manne did her graduate work in philosophy at MIT and is the author of two previous books, Down Girl and Entitled.
“Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia” By Kate Manne - penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722318/unshrinking-by-kate-manne
For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She’s been bullied and belittled for her size, leading to extreme dieting. As a feminist philosopher, she wanted to believe that she was exempt from the cultural gaslighting that compels so many of us to ignore our hunger. But she was not.
Blending intimate stories with the trenchant analysis that has become her signature, Manne shows why fatphobia has become a vital social justice issue. Over the last several decades, implicit bias has waned in every category, from race to sexual orientation, except one: body size. Manne examines how anti-fatness operates—how it leads us to make devastating assumptions about a person’s attractiveness, fortitude, and intellect, and how it intersects with other systems of oppression. Fatphobia is responsible for wage gaps, medical neglect, and poor educational outcomes; it is a straitjacket, restricting our freedom, our movement, our potential.
Reference:
NPR Interview - In 'Unshrinking,' a writer discusses coming out as fat and pushing back against bias
npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/13/1238157663/in-unshrinking-a-writer-argues-that-the-medicalization-of-fatness-leads-to-bias
MS Magazine Article – Fighting Fatphobia and Embracing ‘Unshrinking’: The Ms. Q&A With Kate Manne
msmagazine.com/2024/02/14/kate-manne-unshrinking-fat-women-body-image
Belly of the Beast The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun L. Harrison
akpress.org/belly-of-the-beast.html
To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals, fat Black people in the United States are subject to sociopolitically sanctioned discrimination, abuse, condescension, and trauma.
About The Pulse
On The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.
The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio and is available as a podcast on your favourite platform. For more information, visit amiplus.ca/m/0/episode?seriesId=81331440-8e73-4b5b-aff1-1e8ca4a85790&app-config=%2Fc%2Fpodcasts
Follow Joeita on Twitter: twitter.com/joeitagupta
Like the Pulse on Facebook: facebook.com/the.pulse.ami
Subscribe to this channel: youtube.com/channel/UCpSCygsB9AFBhl_mhK86C6g?sub_confirmation=1
About AMI
AMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI’s vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal.
Learn more at AMI.ca
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