The Somatechnics journal on fat bodily being has just been published

Issue 2.1 of Somatechnics has just been published, a special issue on 'fat bodily being' edited by Samantha Murray. It looks really good. I'm in it too.

Somatechnics home page at Edinburgh University Press

Here's the table of contents:

'Fat Bodily Being' Editorial
Samantha Murray

Fat, Queer, Dead: 'Obesity' and the Death Drive
Francis Ray White

Big Girls Having Fun: Reflections on a 'fat accepting space'
Rachel Colls

Control Top Underpants
Samantha Murray

Live to Tell: Coming Out as Fat
Cat Pausé

DANGER, Curves Ahead
Cleo Gardiner

'I saw a knock-out': Fatness, (In)visibility, and Desire in Shallow Hal
Jackie Wykes

Not Just a Type: Diabetes, Fat and Fear
Jennifer Lee

Native American Indian Women, Fat Studies and Feminism
Jennifer A. Boisvert

Fox's More to Love: Pseudo-Fat Acceptance in Reality Television
MacKenzie Peltier and Lauren Mizock

'I'd kill anyone who tried to take my band away': Obesity Surgery, Critical Fat Politics and the 'problem' of Patient Demand
Karen Throsby

Fat Activist Community: A Conversation Piece
Charlotte Cooper and Samantha Murray

If you don't have access to university libraries and want to read this stuff, you can buy a single issue, which costs between £16-$32 depending on where you live. If this sort of money is beyond you and you still want to read the pieces, please get in touch.