TRANS FATS

We’ve made it – this is the final episode of my podcasted thesis! Thank you so much for listening to TRANS FATS. In this concluding episode, I share some more stories – this time about access to professionalised care. I talk through colonial therapy practices, working with a dietician, genocidal famine regimes, rejecting the pathologisation of hunger, gender-affirming surgery, anti-fatness in the...

In this third episode of my podcasted thesis, we dive into stories. I talk about my family’s gendered relationship with food and eating, diet culture in the early 2000s, Honesty Box, alienation and being baffled by gender, trying out chest binding and encountering anti-fatness in queer spaces, embodied knowledges, going to the doctor as a teenager, fucked up relationships with food, healthism, the...

In this second episode of my podcasted thesis, I do a deep dive into my research methodology and methods. I start out with my hopes for this work before talking about autoethnography, coloniality’s relationship to positivism, medical notetaking, podcasting, accessibility, the body and the voice, relational ethics, and self and community care 🌈 I also ask again for your feedback on the accessibili...

Welcome to my thesis! This first episode talks about decolonial feminist theory, my white settlerness in relation to Indigenous lands including Palestine, transness and fatness and eating disorders, pathologisation and medical-industrial complex bullshit including the DSM and the BMI, disability justice, anddd anti-fatness. So, you know. Please take care if you decide to listen 💜 Notes ‘Cis-centr...

Hi friends! I’m Katie O’Brien, and this trailer is a tiny intro to my podcasted thesis, TRANS FATS. If you have any feedback about the accessibility of this podcast, please don’t hesitate to email me at krobrien@uvic.ca . Stoked to have you along for the ride 🌈 Links Transcript [2 page .pdf] References [21 page .pdf] Stable UVic URI Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.