Unvictimizable
Toward a Fat Black Disability Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5246617 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Mollow (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 105-121 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-4783 • E-ISSN: 1945-6182 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/afa.2017.0016 |
| OpenAlex | W2736323931 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 7 |
This essay argues that fatphobia and ableism are exacerbating the problem of state-sanctioned violence against African Americans. I contend that racism, antifat prejudice, and ableism intersect to create a double bind that depicts black people as incapable of being victimized, for two contradictory reasons: fat black bodies are figured as innately disabled but also as invulnerable to disability and suffering. As a means of dismantling this double bind, I begin the work of conceptualizing a new, transdisciplinary methodology, "fat black disability studies," which brings together insights from critical race theory, fat studies, disability studies, and the Black Lives Matter movement
Ableism · Criminology · Disability studies · Racism · Sociology · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Obesity and Health Practices · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology
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The Fantasy of Anorexia
(Un)Mapping trajectories of fatness
Living while fat
Fat Studies
State-Sanctioned Violence
Black Disability Politics
Cripistemologies Now (More than Ever!)
The “Worst Dinner Guest Ever”
Cripping Time, Creating Community
Networked feminism
Fear, freaks, and fat phobia
On Being Impossible
The immovable veil of black disability
Fat Liberation
Challenging Anti-Fatness amid the Climate Crisis
A War of Minds Waged Against Bodies
Closer. Fatness, desire, and seeing as touching
Fat in food & environment justice
"Weight loss, cure, and temporality in the "Diet Capital of the World
The Dys-Appearing Fat Body
After Crip, Crip Afters
Reconceptualizing weight of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the context of social determinants of health
Bodies at the Intersections
Co-healthism in Health at Every Size(R)-aligned TikTok activism
| Citations per year | 3.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |