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Festival of Dangerous Ideas

Sarai Walker (2015) | Radical Fat Acceptance

Sep 6, 2020
32:09

One of the last bastions of acceptable discrimination is against fat people. Health arguments reinforce the social and cultural pressure to avoid fatness at all costs. But is it possible to imagine things differently and help women to escape from the complex web of body image, food and weight concerns? 

Sarai Walker received her MFA in creative writing from Bennington College. As a magazine writer, her articles have appeared in Seventeen and Mademoiselle. She served as an editor and writer for Our Bodies, Ourselves, before moving to London and Paris to complete a PhD. Her first novel, Dietland, was published in 2015, and takes on the beauty industry, gender inequality and our weight loss obsession.

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