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This article presents an overview of the hallmark characteristics of four kinds of scholarship on and about fat and fatness, allowing the reader to recognise the areas in which they overlap and in which they differ. It explores the history of Fat Studies as an academic discipline and considers the challenges and opportunities going forward. It concludes with a demonstration that the field of Fat Studies scholarship is that most appropriate for the study of the fat body.

Fat individuals live in a fat phobic world. Individuals with a fat identity engage in identity management to negotiate the stigma surrounding fatness. Goffman proposed three forms of identity management: passing, covering, and withdrawing. More recently, scholars have proposed a fourth form of identity management: coming out. In this paper, I consider the usefulness of the four styles in managing the stigmatised identity of fatness. Special consideration is given to whether a fat identity may engage in passing. By integrating theory, literature, and my own experience, autoethnography allows me to identify important markers in my process of coming out as fat. I offer up my narrative as a contribution to the growing discourse on fat identity and stigma management. And in conclusion, I consider whether fat identity development, and coming out as fat, are developmental processes that can be characterised by stages.

Caitlin Clare Pausé — Cat Pausé — foi especialista na área dos Fat Studies, professora da Massey University (Nova Zelândia) e diretora do Centro de Libertação das Pessoas Gordas. Coeditou The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies (PAUSÉ; TAYLOR, 2021) e coordenaria a próxima conferência Fat Studies: Rights, Personhood, Disposability que ocorrerá online em julho de 2022. Sua pesquisa está focada nos efeitos do estigma da gordura na saúde e no bem-estar de indivíduos gordos e como os ativistas gordos resistem ao "Apocalipse Gordo". Ela foi defensora de uma nova ética da gordura que se centralize numa epistemologia da gordura. Seu programa de rádio e podcast, Friend of Marilyn, vem apresentando trabalhos acadêmicos e discussões sobre gordura, bem como introduzindo temas e indivíduos ligados ao ativismo gordo desde 2011. A presente entrevista foi realizada em janeiro de 2022 por Nicole Pontes, professora e pesquisadora da Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Unidade Acadêmica de Serra Talhada, como parte de um projeto para estreitar laços e ampliar o acesso da comunidade acadêmica brasileira interessada nos Fat Studies aos autores e autoras da área mundo afora. A entrevista foi realizada em reunião virtual por meio do aplicativo Zoom. Respostas mais pontuais às questões específicas foram enviadas por e-mails. Toda a comunicação foi estabelecida em inglês, e as respostas traduzidas para o português pela entrevistadora.

The productivity of shame as an affective-discursive practice implicated in the neoliberal governance of "healthy pregnancy" is examined in the narratives of 27 ethnically diverse, cis-gendered, self-identified fat pregnant people in Aotearoa New Zealand. Shame is identified as a dominant affective-discursive practice produced in response to the problematising medical discourses surrounding the fat pregnant body, leading to the constitution of shamed maternal subjectivities. Seeking reparation in order to restore their maternal identities, participants adopted a range of self-governance strategies. However, fat shaming, while productive in constituting self-governed maternal subjects, was not constructive. We demonstrate how shame induced self-governed action, rather than improving maternal and infant health, instead led to a range of unhealthful behaviours and negatively impacted how participants experienced their pregnancies, emerging maternal selves, and newly born children. We call for attention to affect in feminist governmentality studies of reproduction and fatness.

"The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies brings together a diverse body of work from around the globe and across a wide range of fat studies topics and perspectives. The first major collection of its kind, it explores the epistemology, ontology and methodology of fatness, with attention to issues such as gender and sexuality, disability and embodiment, health, race, media, discrimination and pedagogy. Presenting work from both scholarly writers and activists, this volume reflects a range of critical perspectives vital to the expansion of fat studies and thus constitutes an essential resource for researchers in the field"--

Shedding light on the ways in which fat embodiment is lived, experienced, regulated and (re)produced across a range of cultural sites and contexts, Queering Fat Embodiment destabilises established ideas about fat bodies, making explicit the intersectionality of fat identities and thereby countering the assertion that fat studies has in recent years reproduced a white, ableist, heteronormative subjectivity in its analyses