WEBVTT 00:00:01.195 --> 00:00:01.695 Hi! 00:00:01.726 --> 00:00:02.226 Hi! 00:00:02.302 --> 00:00:02.802 Hi! 00:00:04.002 --> 00:00:04.533 Why are you looking at me?? 00:00:04.533 --> 00:00:05.316 To introduce yourself! 00:00:05.316 --> 00:00:05.816 oh! 00:00:05.816 --> 00:00:06.404 [lots of laughter] 00:00:06.404 --> 00:00:06.904 Oh! I'm Sara 00:00:07.181 --> 00:00:07.758 I'm Jackie. 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:08.560 I'm Asam. 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:12.460 [Jackie] And we are doing a video, uh, 00:00:12.739 --> 00:00:18.052 I guess to start off something that we're gonna call "It Gets Fatter Project" 00:00:18.052 --> 00:00:19.019 [LAUGHTER] 00:00:19.019 --> 00:00:25.144 And so, uh, I'll start a little bit by introducing why it gets fatter. 00:00:25.144 --> 00:00:27.404 And so basically it came out of an idea... 00:00:27.404 --> 00:00:30.832 I'm from Montreal, and we're in Toronto right now in Asam's apartment, 00:00:30.832 --> 00:00:33.699 and, uh, I wanted to have a party 00:00:33.699 --> 00:00:38.202 where everyone ate food, and wore, uh, little-to-nothing, 00:00:38.202 --> 00:00:39.192 like bikinis maybe, 00:00:39.192 --> 00:00:42.225 and were just like really positive about their bodies around each other, 00:00:42.225 --> 00:00:44.283 and like eating food in public together, and blah blah blah. 00:00:44.283 --> 00:00:49.113 And, uh, my friend Marty suggested that we call it the It Gets Fatter Party, 00:00:49.113 --> 00:00:51.617 and I think that was a great idea. 00:00:51.617 --> 00:00:55.613 And from that I was talking to these two while we were sitting around and eating cheese 00:00:55.613 --> 00:00:59.682 and brie, and now ice cream, 00:00:59.682 --> 00:01:03.639 that maybe, it could be like a project, like It Gets Better, 00:01:03.639 --> 00:01:07.260 but ACTually better, because it's people of colour who are doing it. 00:01:07.260 --> 00:01:10.207 So that was kind of why we thought that it might be fun to do, 00:01:10.207 --> 00:01:12.212 and this is kind of like our introductory video. 00:01:12.212 --> 00:01:14.190 So...uh... try to go fast... 00:01:14.190 --> 00:01:19.849 but um so basically the thing that I think is important with fat, uh, maybe not "fat acceptance", 00:01:19.849 --> 00:01:22.870 because I don't particularly like that term that much, 00:01:22.870 --> 00:01:24.707 but body positivity, 00:01:24.707 --> 00:01:27.482 instead of thinking about acceptance, just being positive about your body, 00:01:27.482 --> 00:01:32.217 Is that to stop the whole equating it with health. 00:01:32.217 --> 00:01:35.595 So like fatness and health don't really need to be uh together, 00:01:35.595 --> 00:01:38.309 cuz it's kind of an ableist thing to do. 00:01:38.309 --> 00:01:43.360 Instead of talking about just like, it's ok if someone is unhealthy, 00:01:43.360 --> 00:01:44.676 because there's lots of different... 00:01:44.676 --> 00:01:46.290 or that YOU think someone is unhealthy, 00:01:46.290 --> 00:01:48.209 cuz there's lots of different ways of defining health. 00:01:48.209 --> 00:01:57.057 And to like allow health and size to be put in the same dialogue, is often pretty ableist, 00:01:57.057 --> 00:02:01.263 in that like, if you're not healthy it's bad, if you are, it's ok to be fat, 00:02:01.263 --> 00:02:03.841 in some ways is not the way that we should be going about things. 00:02:03.841 --> 00:02:07.211 We should just be thinking that it's ok to be fat, no matter what, 00:02:07.211 --> 00:02:11.076 uh, and if you are ok with it, then you should be ok with it, and that's it. 00:02:11.076 --> 00:02:14.060 Uh, and also just, yeah, that's basically it... 00:02:14.060 --> 00:02:18.536 to think about health and fatness in that way, 00:02:18.536 --> 00:02:24.034 and just be, I guess, eating with people of colour who are like nice and fat. 00:02:24.034 --> 00:02:26.947 [Sara] Yeah, I mean what Jackie was saying, 00:02:26.947 --> 00:02:30.914 I think for me it's really important to be around people who look like me 00:02:30.914 --> 00:02:32.602 and think the same way I do, 00:02:32.602 --> 00:02:38.077 but also just feel safe...[laughing & stumbling over words] safe as a fat person, 00:02:38.077 --> 00:02:42.872 safe being visible, safe like eating in public, 00:02:42.872 --> 00:02:46.681 and not feeling pressured to like, y'know, have body shame 00:02:46.681 --> 00:02:50.467 or you know, like I need to lose weight, or need to talk about losing weight, 00:02:50.467 --> 00:02:56.268 or feel like I always have to work on what I look like because I'm fat. 00:02:56.268 --> 00:03:01.402 Um, and so, just y'know, being around people of colour and eating, and being fat, and being visible, 00:03:01.402 --> 00:03:06.345 and being happy doing that, and I think that that's something really important to me. 00:03:07.304 --> 00:03:09.855 [Asam] I think we just sort of like jumped on this bandwagon 00:03:09.855 --> 00:03:16.083 because there's so few people of colour who are fat and queer 00:03:16.083 --> 00:03:20.658 and it would be really nice to see more fat positive brown people, 00:03:20.658 --> 00:03:23.971 or just people of colour in general. 00:03:23.971 --> 00:03:28.615 Um, and I would just like us to like, you know, have a space where... 00:03:28.615 --> 00:03:33.028 or have some sort of dialogue where we do actually talk about how difficult it can be 00:03:33.028 --> 00:03:36.912 being fat positive in such a fatphobic world. 00:03:36.912 --> 00:03:39.353 So yeah, I'm really excited. 00:03:39.353 --> 00:03:40.845 [Jackie] Me too! 00:03:40.845 --> 00:03:46.780 I hope that if people want to like actually upload things, videos or like text or whatever themselves too, 00:03:46.780 --> 00:03:49.507 that would rule, that would be so cool. 00:03:49.507 --> 00:03:53.168 Um, yeah. Anyways, hopefully we will make another one sometime. 00:03:53.168 --> 00:03:55.000 Ok, bye!