Anti-fat culture is just as much of a problem in the arts as it is in wider society, says Scottee – which is why he and Sophie Hagen are hosting a show where they can share their ‘fat rage’ and force people to confront their demeaning attitudes.
I’ve never been one to shy away from who I am or how I am perceived. Granted I haven’t always been so loud or owned my identity in the way I do now, but I wear my ‘stuff’ with pride – I am a working class, femme, uneducated, dyslexic, queer, poly, fatty.
Most people are fine with me calling myself ‘common’ or ‘faggy’ but when I proclaim or own my fatness as an identity, people often try to convince me otherwise.
We live in a culture where to identity as ‘fat’ means we supposedly pity ourselves, that we inhabit a body of self-loathing. ‘Fat’ is something you are supposed to have shouted at you from vans – it is not something to be proud of, it is not a badge of honour. We fear the word, it’s loaded, it’s rooted in infantile bullying, it’s something you shouldn’t want to be because to admit it is to admit failure...Keep reading on Exeunt Magazine
I’ve never been one to shy away from who I am or how I am perceived. Granted I haven’t always been so loud or owned my identity in the way I do now, but I wear my ‘stuff’ with pride – I am a working class, femme, uneducated, dyslexic, queer, poly, fatty.
Most people are fine with me calling myself ‘common’ or ‘faggy’ but when I proclaim or own my fatness as an identity, people often try to convince me otherwise.
We live in a culture where to identity as ‘fat’ means we supposedly pity ourselves, that we inhabit a body of self-loathing. ‘Fat’ is something you are supposed to have shouted at you from vans – it is not something to be proud of, it is not a badge of honour. We fear the word, it’s loaded, it’s rooted in infantile bullying, it’s something you shouldn’t want to be because to admit it is to admit failure...Keep reading on Exeunt Magazine