At the Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium meeting on April 10 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kelsey Foster, a school teacher, said,” Health is not just about health.”
We reject the notion that a body sort might manifest as a disease, she said. It’s possible to be narrow and healthy, slim and unhealthy, and both fat and healthy.
The College Fix and other multimedia were prohibited from capturing audio and video as well as taking any pictures. The event attracted about 25 individuals. The three-day section at the publicly funded university is entirely prohibited from recording any audio or video. The event is titled” Embodying Feminism: Calling In, Calling Out, and Calling to Action.”
Foster ( pictured ) gave a speech titled” Fat Girl Glossary” in the image. According to the chat description, she has been” an active part of online large good communities for over a decade.”
She addressed a board titled” Embodying and Embracing Fatness as Liberation” that included three 20-minute lectures and a Q&, A program.
Foster began her presentation by using a slide that contained a Tumblr post that read,” Just a reminder that I’m FAT and HAPPY and if you don’t like that then is entirely your problem: )] – double chin smile just 4 u.”
Her talk addressed the different words that are used in online fat-culture areas.
She referred to Body Mass Index as” We have words we occasionally use to combat the tyranny of the BMI.”
Foster used terms that refer to morbid obesity throughout her speech, such as” Deathfatty” and” Infinifat.”
Other terms used in her speak included “fat positivity,” which she defined as the idea that overweight people are good people and that all bodies are great bodies, “body positivity,” which she defined as the notion that the body is not good or bad-it really is, “fat liberation,” and “fat positivity,” which she referred to as the idea of a body that can be compared to other people and that it can be compared to.
She argued that to obtain fat independence, diet culture may be challenged.
She posed the question,” Why are airplane tickets but small?” and” Why are folding chairs thus little?”
She responded to a philosophical objection to health by saying,” Here’s the thing, there is no fat restriction on value as a human being,” and that is how she responded.
Foster remarked,” It’s none of my business if someone is bad.”
The panel’s other speakers spoke on subjects like” Fat Life Writing” and” A Case Study of the” Beauty” Subreddit.”
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Co-Chairs Stephanie Rytilahti and Karla Strand wrote in the delightful letter for the 2025 meeting that” we created this design in the summer of 2024 with the intention of honoring the continued activism and legacy of sexual justice activist Loretta Ross while also putting forth and being explicit about what it means to represent female ideals.”
A request for further discussion on the screen was sent on April 9 via email, but neither one responded. But, Rytilahti did respond to a request to document the event on April 10.
For 49 times, this event has been held annually. This year, there are speeches and breakout sessions on a variety of feminist subjects, including a keynote address on” Criminalizing the Crisis: Bodies ‘ Out of Place and Neoliberal ( Dis ) Order,” and a speech titled” Capitalism, Caste, and Creativity: Pushing Back on Spaces and Systems of Oppression.”
The UW-Madison Gender and Sexuality Campus Center and the UW-Madison Department of Gender and Women’s Studies are just two of the 14 co-sponsors listed on the convention site.
The site further claims that the celebration is taking place as part of a global UN System on education, research, and society under the auspices of the UNESCO Chair on Gender, Wellbeing and a Culture of Peace.
Further: Students and their children can use the household study room at San Francisco State University.
SURFORD, Wisconsin Librarian Kelsey Foster, is pictured, University of Wisconsin.
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