I'm giving a presentation tomorrow for an anthropology class at Mt. Holyoke College, and am listing resources here.
My favorite sites:
Nolose
Charlotte Cooper
Fatshionista, full of messy, grassroots life
Sites I often refer people to:
Linda Bacon, especially her Health at Every Size Manifesto
Note: the HAES Manifesto is the handout I used in class.
Council on Size and Weight Discrimination
NAAFA
One program I particularly like at NAAFA is The FLARE Project: Fat Legal Advocacy, Rights and Education.
Fat Liberation Archives
Bonus:
Big Fat Blog is an excellent ongoing source of information and analysis.
And I'm newly interested in JunkFood Science, Sandy Szwarc's blog, where I just learned the following:
GlaxoSmithKline — the pharmaceutical giant that paid over $100 million for the U.S. rights to the prescription version of Orlistat and has undertaken an intense guerilla marketing campaign to convince Americans they need drugs to help them lose weight — has underwritten an April program for PBS called “Fat: What no one is telling you.”
The Popular Culture Association conference, coming up in Boston in April, will have a Fat Studies track with a bunch of panels and discussions. It's very inexpensive ($5 registration, I think) to attend the presentations. There is also a Fat Studies list on Yahoo.
Of particular interest to students in Western Massachusetts: the website is out of date, but I checked, and Size Matters is still meeting at Smith College. Email them through the website if interested.
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