Ivy League university offers course on 'fat politics'

Brown University offers a week-long summer course called “Politics of Fatness,” ostensibly to instruct incoming students about “graphophobia” in modern society.

The University offers a pre-university course for incoming students, where they will examine theoretical scenarios of viewing “fatness,” through “feminist gender lenses” and race. The course, which instructs students to think critically about “fatphobia” in society, is an introduction to the emerging academy. rural area of “fat studies”.

Brown's pre-college programs are designed for high school students to explore the college experience through academics and activities. seconds on the university website. The week-long course, which runs from July 8 to July 12, asks students to “think critically about different perspectives related to the stigmatization of fat in modern society” and “understand and discuss the implications social, medical and cultural aspects of fat”. “

“While thousands of dietitians and even the CDC continue to talk about the so-called 'obesity epidemic,' several recent sociological publications have gained recognition by detailing the racial origins of fatphobia, condemning the anti-fat sentiment of so many authorities” , the course the description reads.

The instructor, Victoria Lonardo, also teaches another one courseentitled “Women and Leadership”, teaching the concepts of gender, feminism, intersectionality and inclusive leadership.

The university offers a similar course titled “Diet Culture and Fatphobia in the Modern United States,” which was available as an American history elective in the spring of 2021. Most recently, the university offered a course called “Fat, Messy, and Late: Unregulated Bodies in American Capitalism.”

Universities across the country have them created “thick” course studies. Cornell University offered a freshman seminar last fall titled “Have you eaten yet? QTBIPOC Care”, to analyze how queer, trans, black and indigenous people of color receive and experience care through food. Formerly Princeton University offered a similar course, “FAT: The F Word and the Public Body.”

Brown University did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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