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There’s also a strain of ambivalence that’s more nebulous and apolitical: the notion that evolved girls simply don’t need to diet. The modern woman, after all, is that highly capable, have-it-all creature to whom career success, confidence, and effortless style — and, oh yeah, the yoga body and the eco-conscious, preservative-free diet — come naturally. She’s too damn smart and balanced to overeat in the first place. If anything, she’s already healthy and getting ever healthier. So juice fasts and Goop cleanses and barre classes? All fine as part of a vague “healthy lifestyle” of “clean eating.” Losing weight for your wedding day? Okay, you get a free pass on that one. But the daily slog of dieting — all that calorie counting and dessert skipping and
cardio bingeing? That’s not at all chic. A golden summer dress in XXL, the ice-lolly drips slowly onto the hot ground. RIOT NOT DIET creates a queer feminist utopia far away from BMI norms and male* gaze. We say all that, and yet… and yet we STILL believe thinning is winning. We still can’t help but instinctively blurt out that fateful, ‘Oooh, have you lost weight? You look great,’ and still praise each other when someone has so much as lost 3lb from doing a big poo. Budapest, 4 July 2017, contribution by Borbála Juhász, Hungarian Women’s Lobby] During the 2017 General Assembly the CEEBS Task Force of the EWL gathered again to discuss developments in the past year. The Task Force was born a few years before from the realisation that many things are common in the ex socialist states (with the one exception of Turkey, also a member) of the European Union regarding women’s rights and gender equality, as well as their social and economic realities.

Inspired by the hard work & battles cries of all fat activists and intersectional feminists, past and present. Fat is a feminist issue, and if your feminism isn’t intersectional… well, it’s bullshit. Laura (model) wears a size 2 and is an example of a more relaxed fit. Laura’s measurements plus HEAPS of sizing info can be found here. Postage info A golden summer dress in XXL, the ice lolly drips slowly onto the hot ground. RIOT NOT DIET creates a queer feminist utopia far away from BMI norms and male* gaze.

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This, after all, is why you don’t see diet tips in Vogue. The stigma surrounding dieting, enforced by feminists and the faux-effortlessly perfect alike — combined with its life-disrupting, “daily slog” aspect — make losing weight a uniquely lonely project. Meltzer shared her diet with only one far-away friend, and felt “strangely furtive and isolated.”

The pleasure of their own, overflowing corporeality is an alternative draft to the neoliberal logic of exploitation. In times of self-optimization, your belly is a statement! Queer fat feminism! The fat women* and queers in this movie are not ashamed of their expansive body dimensions, but confidently claim space for themselves. They use their bodies to blow up patriarchal structures and enjoy their corporeality beyond the neoliberal logic of exploitation. In times of self-optimization, your belly is a statement! A discussion followed about how neoliberal economic policies based on austerity, taking away from women and families, are also embraced by (so called) left-wing parties in these states, which causes a disillusionment also in everything else connected with the left-wing ethos, including human rights. In the meantime, the right-wing (although following a pervert redistribution from the poor to the middle class) embrace family policies that actively support women who live in (middle class) families with children. Although this is purely motivated by demographic interest in (ethnic) population growth, it is becoming to the voters perceived as leftist policies. With: Sara Ablinger, Magda Albrecht, Brandy Butler, Christine Fiedler, Kristina Kuličová, Marzen Lizurej, Veronika Merklein, Zdrada Pałki, Flora Schanda, Julischka Stengele, JJ Thunderkhat, Hengameh YaghoobifarahBecause we are still so brainwashed into thinking losing weight is the most interesting thing a woman can do and talk about. I've been fat and I've been thin, and I know that it frees up a lot of brain space when you're not thinking about losing weight with Sara Ablinger, Magda Albrecht, Brandy Butler, Christine Fiedler, Kristina Kuličová, Marzen Lizurej, Veronika Merklein, Zdrada Pałki, Flora Schanda, Julischka Stengele, JJ Thunderkhat, Hengameh Yaghoobifarah So I’ve had enough. Do what you like, diet if you want, but don’t fill your head with it. There are riots to organise. Most Read

Five thousand years of patriarchy have left their mark – for in spite of ongoing emancipation, female* bodies are still geared to conform and to float through the world with a quiet, graceful and space-saving appearance. However, in this film we encounter fat women* and queers who resist. With their expansive body dimensions they break the chains of outdated gender structures and claim space for themselves.This short film is an experimental documentary recently created by an all-female / -queer crew. The film combines the strength of human experiences with the intensity of staged moments. It’s intended to be empowering for nonconformist, queer people who blow up restricting body images.