It Gets Fatter!

introduction video

Hi!

Hi!

Hi!

Why are you looking at me??

To introduce yourself!

oh!

[lots of laughter]

Oh! I'm Sara

I'm Jackie.

I'm Asam.

[Jackie] And we are doing a video, uh,

I guess to start off something that we're gonna call "It Gets Fatter Project"

[LAUGHTER]

And so, uh, I'll start a little bit by introducing why it gets fatter.

And so basically it came out of an idea...

I'm from Montreal, and we're in Toronto right now in Asam's apartment,

and, uh, I wanted to have a party

where everyone ate food, and wore, uh, little-to-nothing,

like bikinis maybe,

and were just like really positive about their bodies around each other,

and like eating food in public together, and blah blah blah.

And, uh, my friend Marty suggested that we call it the It Gets Fatter Party,

and I think that was a great idea.

And from that I was talking to these two while we were sitting around and eating cheese

and brie, and now ice cream,

that maybe, it could be like a project, like It Gets Better,

but ACTually better, because it's people of colour who are doing it.

So that was kind of why we thought that it might be fun to do,

and this is kind of like our introductory video.

So...uh... try to go fast...

but um so basically the thing that I think is important with fat, uh, maybe not "fat acceptance",

because I don't particularly like that term that much,

but body positivity,

instead of thinking about acceptance, just being positive about your body,

Is that to stop the whole equating it with health.

So like fatness and health don't really need to be uh together,

cuz it's kind of an ableist thing to do.

Instead of talking about just like, it's ok if someone is unhealthy,

because there's lots of different...

or that YOU think someone is unhealthy,

cuz there's lots of different ways of defining health.

And to like allow health and size to be put in the same dialogue, is often pretty ableist,

in that like, if you're not healthy it's bad, if you are, it's ok to be fat,

in some ways is not the way that we should be going about things.

We should just be thinking that it's ok to be fat, no matter what,

uh, and if you are ok with it, then you should be ok with it, and that's it.

Uh, and also just, yeah, that's basically it...

to think about health and fatness in that way,

and just be, I guess, eating with people of colour who are like nice and fat.

[Sara] Yeah, I mean what Jackie was saying,

I think for me it's really important to be around people who look like me

and think the same way I do,

but also just feel safe...[laughing & stumbling over words] safe as a fat person,

safe being visible, safe like eating in public,

and not feeling pressured to like, y'know, have body shame

or you know, like I need to lose weight, or need to talk about losing weight,

or feel like I always have to work on what I look like because I'm fat.

Um, and so, just y'know, being around people of colour and eating, and being fat, and being visible,

and being happy doing that, and I think that that's something really important to me.

[Asam] I think we just sort of like jumped on this bandwagon

because there's so few people of colour who are fat and queer

and it would be really nice to see more fat positive brown people,

or just people of colour in general.

Um, and I would just like us to like, you know, have a space where...

or have some sort of dialogue where we do actually talk about how difficult it can be

being fat positive in such a fatphobic world.

So yeah, I'm really excited.

[Jackie] Me too!

I hope that if people want to like actually upload things, videos or like text or whatever themselves too,

that would rule, that would be so cool.

Um, yeah. Anyways, hopefully we will make another one sometime.

Ok, bye!