This essay takes up the suggestion that fatness might be (or become) a disability, and uses
the observations it yields to propose a new account of a way American antidiscrimination …

The relationship between Disability Studies and Fat Studies has been both productive and
strained. This chapter examines that relationship in detail, covering issues such as the …

Both fat people and disabled people share common barriers to full societal participation and
acceptance. While there has been a substantial amount of literature relating to these two …

This paper expands a discussion begun by a fat activist in the UK disability literature to
argue that fatness is a disability issue. Some ways in which fat people are oppressed by the …

The article focuses on disability studies (DS) and connection between fat shaming and
ableism. Topics discussed include involvement in DS through scholarship, teaching and …

This paper explores 'being fat'in terms of three contrasting models of disability. First, the
medical model with its predisposition for ever increasing pathology, secondly the social …

This article invites disability scholars to “get fat,” that is, to support the goals of the fat justice
movement. I argue that the contemporary politics of fatness can productively be read through …

As an ostensibly able-bodied fat woman I discuss my experimental usage of'disabled'to self-
define, asserting that this is a problematic label. I criticise some of the mutual …

This paper explores questions of fat embodiment and how tensions between and among
biologically based descriptions of fatness and disability feature in the lives of women. In …

This chapter proposes that a queering of both disability and fatness provides a stronger
critique of neoliberal healthism. It allows for fat and disability activists and scholars to make …