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fighting the system with forks and knives

@thaenad

@fatliberation | 23 | they/them | qfa
queer, kink+, fat liberationist, pleasure & autonomy advocate. building liberationist framework for the feedism community
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host of the F word podcast (18+)

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  • This blog engages in the feedism kink community! 18+ only.
ABOUT ME: (you may also know me as @fatliberation)
  • I am a fat, queer, trans, and autistic kinkster whose experience growing up as a sexual outsider has shaped my work in both fat liberation and sex education. I believe that it is crucial to incorporate fat liberation into kink practice and everyday life, and am committed to building a liberationist framework for the feedism community. I write think pieces on the topics of autonomy, consent, body liberation, radical self acceptance, and the politics of pleasure at the intersection of fatness and sexuality, while providing resources for feedists who are willing to learn about the impacts of systemic ableism and anti-fatness. (I have a podcast about this topic currently in the works!) My goal is to help everyone take the steps to unlearn the western cultural biases ingrained in us so that we may lift each other up and live a life free of shame.

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Freespirit, J., & Aldebaran. Fat liberation manifesto. November, 1973. Off Our Backs, Vol. 9, No. 4 (April 1979), p. 18
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Anonymous asked:

It would be more believable if your instagram wasn’t showing you in skinny, lost all the weight mode. I mean pick a lane…it’s your body it don’t gaslight us. We aren’t crazy.

2 pictures taken hours apart, one for my kink accounts and one for my instagram… just say you dont understand bodys in different angles and move on

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I know anon, it’s like when someone posts naked pics to their sexy account, but then their personal instagram is showing them in prude, fully clothed mode. I mean pick a lane… we aren’t stupid!

Seeing an ask sent to another feedees blog about how their fat body could only be possible in the 21st century. I don't want to call anyone out, and it could very well just be kink play.

But, fat people have always existed, and will continue to do so. Saying it is a modern phenomenon is rooted in the same reactionary propaganda that says autistic people, or trans people are a modern phenomenon. Rewriting history to exclude a target group is used as justification for those wanting to "retvrn".

i don't care if you're playing with it for kink, as long as we're all aware that "fat people are a modern phenomenon" is fatphobic propaganda

the obsession with twink death is so sad and weird I can't stand it. oh nooo he got fat and hairy... as if those aren't two of the hottest things you can be. get real!!!

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FAT LIBERATIONIST FILMS

I noticed that the handful of lists on letterboxd for fat positive films only had Hairspray, Isn’t It Romantic, and I Feel Pretty (🤢) with the caption “I wish this list was longer!”

So I have taken it upon myself to compile a real list of real fat liberationist films: films that either confront the issue of fatphobia or portray fat bodies in a liberating way. I will not be including films where fat characters exist neutrally, only films with a message about fatness that does not promote weight loss.

I haven’t seen a majority of these films yet, so if you see one that you believe is not worthy of being on this list, please let me know! additionally, if you have ideas on more films that should be added, please share!

Films (left to right)

1. How to Carry Water (2023) dir. Sasha Wortzel

2. Piggy (2022) dir. Carlotta Pereda

3. Your Fat Friend (2023) dir. Jeanie Finlay

4. Dumplin’ (2018) dir. Anne Fletcher

5. Empire Waist (2024) dir. Claire Ayoub

6. PattiCake$ (2017) dir. Geremy Jasper

7. Läski (2019) dir. Kirsikka Saari

8. Aquaporko! (2013) dir. Kelli Jean Drinkwater, Anna Helme

9. Fat Hiking Club (2018) dir. Layla Cameron

10. Fat Front (2019) dir. Louise Kjeldsen, Louise Detlefsen

11. Disfigured (2008) dir. Glenn Gers

12. Riot Not Diet (2018) dir. Julia Fuhr Mann, Kristina Kilian

13. Straight/Curve: Redefining Body Image (2017) dir. Jenny McQuaile

14. In Our Skin (2017) dir. Rosa Beiroa

15. The Fat Feeling (2019) dir. Talia A. Darling

16. Dangerous Curves (2016) dir. Merete Mueller

17. Well Rounded (2020) dir. Shana Myara

18. Fat Chance (1994) dir. Jeffery McKay

19. Tales of Ordinary Fatphobia (2020) dir. Josiane Blanc

20. Fattitude (2017) dir. Viridiana Lieberman

21. (Not pictured) The Fat Body (In)Visible (2011) dir. Margitte Kristjansson

the other day i called feedism my lifestyle kink and tbh the more i think about it the more i feel like thats probably the best way i could describe it for myself

like obviously i live in a fat body built by feedism and that impacts my daily life 100% of the time. but even beyond that i feel like my kink influences everything i do, and i like it that way. its part of who i am and i purposefully accommodate and prioritize being able to live that way, yknow? its never Not there

i would rather hang out with a thousand feedists and fat "fetishists" than even one so-called ally wailing and gnashing their teeth about the evils of *checks notes* finding fat people hot.

do y'all remember when they found all that tf art in Osamu Tezuka's drawer post-mortem because I think about it often

anyway keep chasing your bliss and draw weird shit, god knows we need that right now

My kink is blocking thin feeders that write massive self congratulatory posts with the most basic health info as if every fat person in this community is an idiot like gee whiz mister humans should drink water?!? You don’t fucking say 🙄

something i genuinely love about making kink art for people is there's an honesty about them. like someone contacting me to say "can you draw my fursona being pampered and fattened by toriel from undertale" and i say "yeah gimmie like a week to get a wip ready." like its so mundane. but think for a moment that person is confiding with me a deep fantasy they have. something they might not tell a lot of other people about. definitely not family or coworkers or non-furry friends. but they're coming to me, fully exposed. their soul laid bare. naked. about something they feel deep within. and for me it is tuesday. i dunno i feel like i live in a world where a lot of creative works have to focus more and more on keeping up appearances. Marketing themselves, being advertiser friendly, obeying whatever trend or algorithm demands it. A lot of it feels disconnected from people. So having someone come to me personally and request: "draw the avatar of myself being loved exactly the way i want to be loved" or "draw this person who represents my ideal partner" or "draw me loving my body" or hell even "draw me being a nasty bitch" it's honest. it's brave. it's intimate and trusting. i think its beautiful. Hell yeah i'll draw it. Your dream deserves to be given life and i really hope i succeed.

I think more needs to be said about the ableism in soft feedist spaces. “I wouldn’t want to date someone with mobility issues” is a weird take to flex publicly, even though I’d maybe understand feeling that way privately if you had a very active lifestyle you wanted a partner to participate in. “I wouldn’t want to date someone who, through their own choices or otherwise, could potentially become mobility impaired” is an absolutely insane take, and yet I’ve seen it from people saying they love feedism but would never want to date a feedee who wanted to be over 300 lbs or some shit because “what if they got health issues or couldn’t walk long distance wahhh”. Wild take, and I hope you apply that to common things like driving that could also disable you. Or just.. aging. Are you gonna keep up that “I’ll never date a cripple” energy in your 60s? Being able-bodied is a temporary state. Whether it be from accidents, injury, illness, or old age, anyone will become disabled given enough time. The only way to avoid ever becoming disabled is to die young. Who gives a fuck if the decisions they make - or the body they naturally exist in! - might potentially lead to a loss of mobility or health? I don’t get it. Keep it to yourself. Just in a general sense I think it’s very weird when soft feedists and “fantasy only” feedists publicize in fat-dominated spaces that they wouldn’t want to date someone who’s more than just chubby.

Feedism is one of the most subversive kinks out there.

  • it goes against established beauty standards. It celebrates fatness not just in the more socially acceptable "curvy" version, but in all its glory, with large hanging bellies, stretch marks, double chins etc.
  • it's anti-capitalist. It's about transforming your body in a way that might render it "useless" to the exploitative capitalist system. It's about putting comfort before efficiency, "laziness" before productivity.
  • it challenges our deepest unconscious beliefs about health and moral goodness. Many people don't realize that they think of "healthy" as "morally good". It's the root of fathpobia: believing that fat people are inherently unhealthy, and believing that being unhealthy is automatically a moral failing. As if eating a salad was virtuous. Feedism sticks a middle finger to that.
  • it exposes the whole diet industry as a massive cash grab it is.
  • feedism challenges our perception of autonomy and what is a "valid" choice to make. Many people like to say that they are radically pro-choice and that as long as these choices don't harm others, people are entitled to do whatever they want with their bodies. But in reality, many people object when they see others make radical changes to their bodies. We see it with transphobes, and we see it with people who treat feedists badly. Even within feedism, there is some opposition towards more extreme versions of this kink - but an informed choice to transform your body in a way you see fit is a valid human choice. Nobody should choose for you what you can do with your body.
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