Fat activism and collective accountability: from virtual community to embodied coalition

<p>The paper examines the “fat body” in the United States, and the fat acceptance grassroots community and fat activist resistance, as they exist on the social media site Tumblr. Blending feminist ethnographic fieldwork with post-structuralist and intersectional theoretical analysis, I interrogate fat positive identity formation, Tumblr as a site of resistance and the representational politics embedded in the fat activist Tumblr community. I conclude by offering the possibility of a “collective accountability” as the means to move from virtual community to embodied coalition. I assert that the sustainability of the fat acceptance grassroots community is contingent on the collective shift towards fat activist efforts and coalition practices that are intersectional approach and multi-issue in framework. </p>

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Women & Gender Studies

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Schultz, Kelsey

• Tumblr
• feminist ethnography
• fat acceptance community
• body acceptance
• collective accountability

Repository record dc:identifier

https://via.library.depaul.edu/etd/194

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:via.library.depaul.edu:etd-1201