Fat Kinship: an introduction
Cindy Baker
1. Fat politics as a constituent of intersecting intimacies
Kimberly Dark and Lucy Aphramor
2. Fat beyond the fetish: toward a theory of fat-forward sexuality
Jonathan Najarian and Katherine Nee
3. Comfy fat queer love: affective digital resistance through kinship
Mackenzie Edwards
4. Self-conscious, unapologetic, and straight: fat protagonists in romantic fiction
Shana McDavis-Conway
5. Psychological kinship between fat therapists and fat patients: healing and solidarity around stigma, family relationships, and body image
Breanne Fahs
6. Closer. Fatness, desire, and seeing as touching
Magdalena Hutter
7. Hollywood’s slim pickings for fat characters: A textual analysis of Gilmore Girls, Sweet Magnolias, This is Us, Shrill, and Dietland
Lyla E. E. Byers and Heidi M. Williams
8. Fat bodies, intimate relationships and the self in finnish and American weight-loss TV shows
Susanne Ritter
9. Successfully and deliciously fugacious: re-interpreting the “failed” fat relationship in Percy Adlon’s Zuckerbaby (1985)
Erin Gizewski
10. “It has literally been a lifesaver”: the role of “knowing kinship” in supporting fat women to navigate medical fatphobia
Carolin Kost and Kimberly Jamie
11. Fat kinship for love and liberation: a dialogue across difference
Caleb Luna and Jules Pashall
Biography
Cindy Baker - Canadian artist Cindy Baker’s interdisciplinary, research-based practice engages with queer, gender, race, disability, fat, and art discourses. She has exhibited internationally, co-founded important advocacy organizations, and received awards for her community-driven work, including the Body Confidence Canada Award and South Asian Visual Arts Collective's Collaborator of the Year Award.
