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Hi!
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Hi!
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Hi!
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Why are you looking at me??
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To introduce yourself!
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oh!
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[lots of laughter]
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Oh! I'm Sara
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I'm Jackie.
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I'm Asam.
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[Jackie] And we are doing a video, uh,
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I guess to start off something that we're gonna call "It Gets Fatter Project"
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[LAUGHTER]
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And so, uh, I'll start a little bit by introducing why it gets fatter.
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And so basically it came out of an idea...
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I'm from Montreal, and we're in Toronto right now in Asam's apartment,
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and, uh, I wanted to have a party
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where everyone ate food, and wore, uh, little-to-nothing,
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like bikinis maybe,
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and were just like really positive about their bodies around each other,
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and like eating food in public together, and blah blah blah.
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And, uh, my friend Marty suggested that we call it the It Gets Fatter Party,
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and I think that was a great idea.
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And from that I was talking to these two while we were sitting around and eating cheese
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and brie, and now ice cream,
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that maybe, it could be like a project, like It Gets Better,
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but ACTually better, because it's people of colour who are doing it.
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So that was kind of why we thought that it might be fun to do,
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and this is kind of like our introductory video.
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So...uh... try to go fast...
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but um so basically the thing that I think is important with fat, uh, maybe not "fat acceptance",
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because I don't particularly like that term that much,
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but body positivity,
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instead of thinking about acceptance, just being positive about your body,
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Is that to stop the whole equating it with health.
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So like fatness and health don't really need to be uh together,
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cuz it's kind of an ableist thing to do.
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Instead of talking about just like, it's ok if someone is unhealthy,
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because there's lots of different...
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or that YOU think someone is unhealthy,
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cuz there's lots of different ways of defining health.
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And to like allow health and size to be put in the same dialogue, is often pretty ableist,
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in that like, if you're not healthy it's bad, if you are, it's ok to be fat,
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in some ways is not the way that we should be going about things.
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We should just be thinking that it's ok to be fat, no matter what,
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uh, and if you are ok with it, then you should be ok with it, and that's it.
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Uh, and also just, yeah, that's basically it...
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to think about health and fatness in that way,
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and just be, I guess, eating with people of colour who are like nice and fat.
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[Sara] Yeah, I mean what Jackie was saying,
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I think for me it's really important to be around people who look like me
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and think the same way I do,
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but also just feel safe...[laughing & stumbling over words] safe as a fat person,
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safe being visible, safe like eating in public,
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and not feeling pressured to like, y'know, have body shame
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or you know, like I need to lose weight, or need to talk about losing weight,
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or feel like I always have to work on what I look like because I'm fat.
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Um, and so, just y'know, being around people of colour and eating, and being fat, and being visible,
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and being happy doing that, and I think that that's something really important to me.
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[Asam] I think we just sort of like jumped on this bandwagon
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because there's so few people of colour who are fat and queer
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and it would be really nice to see more fat positive brown people,
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or just people of colour in general.
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Um, and I would just like us to like, you know, have a space where...
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or have some sort of dialogue where we do actually talk about how difficult it can be
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being fat positive in such a fatphobic world.
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So yeah, I'm really excited.
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[Jackie] Me too!
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I hope that if people want to like actually upload things, videos or like text or whatever themselves too,
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that would rule, that would be so cool.
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Um, yeah. Anyways, hopefully we will make another one sometime.
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Ok, bye!