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Februar er også Awards Season og derfor er det meget passende at kigge på hvordan tykke sorte mennesker repræsenteres på film. Her illustreret af Da'Shaun L. Harrison der har kigget på den helt nye film Queen & Slim:

"I left the theater feeling that, yet again, fat Black people did not belong in the new safe haven these writers envision themselves creating for Black people. We are safe bodies for thin people to dump on, but are never taken to the safehouse with them; things capable only of offering emotional support; mammies whose bosoms don’t need a break with minds that only ever exist to teach; holes meant only to provide relief. We are only ever Fat Albert, Nikki Parker, or Big Mama—comedian or predator or caretaker."

https://dashaunharrison.com/how-queen-slim-mistreats-fat.../

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Sundhedssystemet er endnu et af de steder hvor det at være sort, kvinde og tyk har en voldsom slagside. Kenyetta Whitfield skriver for Rewire.News:

"When you consider the instances of discrimination in health care that have been noted by both plus size and Black women, the intersection between sizeism and racism is obvious. How are fat Black women expected to trust health-care professionals when doctors have demonstrated an inability to listen to our needs—the needs that will ultimately help keep us alive?"

https://rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2018/10/12/fat-black-womens-bodies-are-under-attack-why-did-it-take-a-thin-white-man-to-get-our-cries-heard/

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I det seneste år har Lizzo for alvor fået sit gennembrud i mainstreamen. Det er påfaldende at se hvordan det har medført omfattende og voldsom tykfobisk kritik af hende. Sydneysky G udforsker dette for Wear Your Voice Magazine:

"Lizzo isn’t a fat activist. She hasn’t labeled herself as one. But her presence this year has brought fat Black activism to the forefront. Her presence has upset those who are invested in the teaching of fat hate where the idea that success, happiness and confidence can only come in a thin and/or white body. And when you poke holes into that indoctrination it crumbles the foundation on which people have built so much of their fear of and hate for fatness. Lizzo represents Black feminine fat sexuality in a way that hasn’t been shown on such a large scale. She dares to live her life out loud no matter how many people ask her to be silent.

I’m not saying you have to be a fan of her music, but I am saying that this is bigger than her. You don’t have to like her music to support her and what she stands for. And anybody who isn’t supporting her or defending her against misogynoir and fat hate supports it.

So again: the hate Lizzo is experiencing is because she’s fat."

https://wearyourvoicemag.com/.../unraveling-the-fatphobia...

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Om at være i verden som tyk, sort og queer og hvordan man kan være allieret i kampen mod tykfobi - Da'Shaun L. Harrison for them.:

"People who are not required to think about how much space their body takes up, whether their body will keep them from experiencing romantic love, whether they will log onto social media to see that their fat body is the joke of the week, or whether they will even be able to find clothes that fit them, have few to no ties to these experiences. But anti-fatness — be it cultural, interpersonal, or systemic — is a pervasive problem that non-fat people should be focused on fighting against.

The blame for fat people’s insecurities and hardships does not rest on fat people; the onus is not on us to end the dehumanization and stigma around fatness and fat people’s bodies. Fat people are not required to apologize for our bodies, nor should we be expected to alter them for any reason. We should not be forced to deprive ourselves of basic human needs — like breathing and eating in public — and social lives for the sake of our safety and our wellbeing. This means that non-fat people have a responsibility to wrestle with their anti-fatness."

https://www.them.us/story/fat-black-queer-public-spaces

Mammyens undertrykkende tilstedeværelse

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Vi har tidligere snakket om mammy-rollen i TV og film, men i denne artikel fortæller Savala Nolan Trepczynski om hvordan hun føler mammyens undertrykkende tilstedeværelse i hendes hverdag, blandt andet fordi det er sådan andre ser hendes tykhed, racegjorthed og position som kvinde.

"So why would I want to trigger thoughts of shuffling, domestic labor when I walk into a room? I don’t, but trigger them I do. Or I fear I do, and what is the difference? I am fat, black, and female. The gap between what I fear and what is real is thin as a strand of hair."

I komediefilm er det ofte sorte mænd der spiller tykke, sorte kvinder

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Om det så er i Mammy-rollen eller som det sjove indslag, så handler det om at det værste man kan være er kvinde (og her, en tyk, sort kvinde).

"Much of the literature and discourse about Black male comedians in drag — both plus and straight sized — is about emasculation."

Tykfobien er tydelig (den tykke krop ses som et komisk element i sig selv) og misogynien lige så - hvorfor er det 'sjovt' at en mand har feminint tøj på?

Dette handler dog ikke kun om tykfobi og misogyni, men også transfobi, da publikum udemærket er klar over at det er en mand der spiller en kvinde. Det er dybt skadeligt at det bliver anvendt i så mange film, selv den dag i dag. Læs mere her.

Tyk, sort og usynlig

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"The fat Black woman’s body has been rendered an object of service whether for food, advice, care-taking etc., but never has it been a thing to aspire to, at best perhaps to fetishize, but not a thing of beauty."
- Sonya Renee Taylor

Den sorte kvindekrop har været meget udskældt gennem tiderne - heldigvis er der en masse bloggere og modeller der tager kampen op for at ændre dette og blive hørt. Når det at være tyk bliver set som det værste i verden, er det at elske sin krop, og at snakke om det, en radikal handling.