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October
21, 2002
From Fat Jeans to Fat Genes?
Excerpts from "Fat Politics and the Will to Innocence"
"My work participates in the struggle
to renegotiate what fat means in our culture. Americans understand
fatness as some kind of failure—certainly as an aesthetic
affront. But fat often gets framed as a kind of moral failure
too, a failure of will . . . . It also gets framed as a failure
of citizenship. Literature from World War II described fat people
as treasonous for consuming more food than needed. . . . And anti-fat
bias is often rife with classist and racist bias too. When white
America fears fat, it fears the loss of privilege that goes along
with the idealized slim, white body.
"I've begun to think about how to change this. There are
some arenas where fatness is recognized in more positive ways.
In the fashion arena, for instance, fat is morphing from an aesthetic
affront to something that has a place in market culture. Fifteen
years ago clothing in stores aimed at fat women were always terrible—poorly
made, bad fabric, no style. Now that's not true anymore. Last
year, the "plus size" segment of fashion retailing grew
by 11 percent while all other areas of fashion remained even or
declined. But is success really measured by having a consumer
market recognize you? Equal rights in fashion are not the same
as equal rights in the workplace.
"Queer Studies and Disability Studies are two lines of inspiration
for Fat Studies. Like discourse about gay identity, there's a
similar interest in figuring out what causes this. For instance,
there's the search for the so-called 'fat gene,' just as there's
been a search for a 'gay gene.' And both queers and fat folk are
deemed in our culture as immoral; both are accused of 'flaunting
it' if they don't hide their bodies. But there's also quite a
bit of sizism in queer communities . . . . So I also look to disability
studies. There's a lot of connection in the representation of
bodies as abjected. One difference, however, is that the disabled
are generally not considered culpable for their condition (although
that's not true for all disabilties)."
—Kathleen LeBesco, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts,
Marymount Manhattan College, speaking at a Women's Studies colloquium
on October 2, 2002.
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September
12, 2002
A Poem by Lucas Carpenter, Charles Howard Candler Professor of
English at Oxford College
WHERE WAS GOD ON SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH?
Answers Sunday at 11 AM
Prophetic Deliverance Services
—Roadside Rent-A-Sign
I wish I could say
He was with me
Sitting in a dive on Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
"TV does it better than the Bible
Grace works and it's fun
Just ask the Jews
Who ought to be used to it
Faith's a ploy to keep you focused
There's no secret
No victimless heaven
No truth without
A knowledge of nothing
Not known about"
Language is genetic
I reach for my drink
And history is late
Babi-Yar or Belsen
Nanking or My Lai.
Suicidal slaughter of innocents
Well within the sharp edges
Wording your worlds
Unspoken and vacant
See Perils of the Affect (Edwin Mellen
Press 2002) for more poems by Lucas Carpenter.