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Monday, May 19, 2014
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7:30pm to 9:30pm |
Riots Not Diets! The Fat Activist Revolution(Other)This will be an evening of activism and entertainment focused around fat activism with Lawrence's new director of film studies, Amy Abugo Ongiri. It will ask the following questions: • How does fat activism fit into a larger project of liberation? • Can you really be healthy at any size? • Is the obesity epidemic a myth? • Can resisting monolithic ideas of beauty and the body connect you to larger cultures of resistance like anti-racism, feminism and queer activism? The evening will include a screening of the 2013 documentary "Aquaporko." The film profiles a fat queer synchronized swim team in Sydney, Australia. Amy Abugo Ongiri is a scholar of visual culture and Africana studies. She is a founder of Heavyweights Fat Fight Club, a boxing club for people of all abilities. She is a board member of the NOLOSE, a national fat queer organization that is committed to feminist, anti-oppression action and ideology that seeks to end the oppression of fat people.
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