The University of Maryland will offer a course titled “Intro to Fat Studies: Fatness, Blackness, and Their Intersections” this spring. Taught by Professor Sydney Lewis, the class explores fatness through an intersectional lens, focusing on how it interacts with systems of privilege and discrimination, including race, gender, and class.
The three-credit course, part of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, positions fatness as a social justice issue. Its description highlights fat liberation as essential for all bodies, emphasizing activism and performing arts as tools to challenge fatmisia, defined as hatred of fatness.
Professor Lewis, whose interests include black feminist and queer theories, previously taught “Bodies in Contention,” which examined marginalized bodies—such as non-white, fat, and disabled bodies—as socially constructed and sources of societal discomfort.
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