Abstract
ABSTRACT Anti-fatness dominates scholarly and interpersonal conversations about bodies, including those in the Communication discipline. In this Dialogue on Difference, a panel of scholars who challenge body-based oppression in their work participated in a dialogue with the goals of describing how body-based oppression governs research across sub-disciplines in Communication and identifying actions that Communication scholars can take to combat anti-fatness in their own work. We identify three problems (anti-fat scholarship, resistance to work on addressing anti-fatness, anti-fatness having a public platform) and six action steps to dismantle fat oppression at individual and disciplinary levels (take personal responsibility for anti-fat attitudes, examine scholarship for anti-fatness, conceptualize bodies as sociallyconstructed, use inclusive language, incorporate fatness when it makes sense, honor size diversity).
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