fat studies makes the New York Times

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I'm not quite sure why it's in the "Fashion and Style" section, but I guess that's better than its not being there at all.

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Big People on Campus by Abby Ellin

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[kshandra]

“It’s about a dominant culture’s ideals of what a real person should be,” said Stefanie Snider, 29, a graduate student at the University of Southern California, whose dissertation will be on the intersection of queer and fat identities in the United States in the 20th century.

Dude - I want a copy.