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SUMMARY:Riots Not Diets! The Fat Activist Revolution
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 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: o How does fat 
 activism fit into a larger project of liberation? 
 o Can you really be healthy at any size? o Is 
 the obesity epidemic a myth? o 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.\n
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 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.\n\n

LOCATION:Warch Campus Center 204 - Cinema
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