What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

by Aubrey Gordon

In The Obesity Myth, Paul Campos argues that as overt racism, sexism, and classism fell out of favor among white and wealthy Americans, anti-fat bias offered a stand-in: a dog whistle that allowed disdain and bigotry aimed at poor people and people of color to persist, uninterrupted and simply renamed.

Shame fills my body like a water balloon, fragile in its fullness.