0:00:01.195,0:00:01.695 Hi! 0:00:01.726,0:00:02.226 Hi! 0:00:02.302,0:00:02.802 Hi! 0:00:04.002,0:00:04.533 Why are you looking at me?? 0:00:04.533,0:00:05.316 To introduce yourself! 0:00:05.316,0:00:05.816 oh! 0:00:05.816,0:00:06.404 [lots of laughter] 0:00:06.404,0:00:06.904 Oh! I'm Sara 0:00:07.181,0:00:07.758 I'm Jackie. 0:00:07.839,0:00:08.560 I'm Asam. 0:00:08.560,0:00:12.460 [Jackie] And we are doing a video, uh, 0:00:12.739,0:00:18.052 I guess to start off something that we're gonna call "It Gets Fatter Project" 0:00:18.052,0:00:19.019 [LAUGHTER] 0:00:19.019,0:00:25.144 And so, uh, I'll start a little bit by introducing why it gets fatter. 0:00:25.144,0:00:27.404 And so basically it came out of an idea... 0:00:27.404,0:00:30.832 I'm from Montreal, and we're in Toronto right now in Asam's apartment, 0:00:30.832,0:00:33.699 and, uh, I wanted to have a party 0:00:33.699,0:00:38.202 where everyone ate food, and wore, uh, little-to-nothing, 0:00:38.202,0:00:39.192 like bikinis maybe, 0:00:39.192,0:00:42.225 and were just like really positive about their bodies around each other, 0:00:42.225,0:00:44.283 and like eating food in public together, and blah blah blah. 0:00:44.283,0:00:49.113 And, uh, my friend Marty suggested that we call it the It Gets Fatter Party, 0:00:49.113,0:00:51.617 and I think that was a great idea. 0:00:51.617,0:00:55.613 And from that I was talking to these two while we were sitting around and eating cheese 0:00:55.613,0:00:59.682 and brie, and now ice cream, 0:00:59.682,0:01:03.639 that maybe, it could be like a project, like It Gets Better, 0:01:03.639,0:01:07.260 but ACTually better, because it's people of colour who are doing it. 0:01:07.260,0:01:10.207 So that was kind of why we thought that it might be fun to do, 0:01:10.207,0:01:12.212 and this is kind of like our introductory video. 0:01:12.212,0:01:14.190 So...uh... try to go fast... 0:01:14.190,0:01:19.849 but um so basically the thing that I think is important with fat, uh, maybe not "fat acceptance", 0:01:19.849,0:01:22.870 because I don't particularly like that term that much, 0:01:22.870,0:01:24.707 but body positivity, 0:01:24.707,0:01:27.482 instead of thinking about acceptance, just being positive about your body, 0:01:27.482,0:01:32.217 Is that to stop the whole equating it with health. 0:01:32.217,0:01:35.595 So like fatness and health don't really need to be uh together, 0:01:35.595,0:01:38.309 cuz it's kind of an ableist thing to do. 0:01:38.309,0:01:43.360 Instead of talking about just like, it's ok if someone is unhealthy, 0:01:43.360,0:01:44.676 because there's lots of different... 0:01:44.676,0:01:46.290 or that YOU think someone is unhealthy, 0:01:46.290,0:01:48.209 cuz there's lots of different ways of defining health. 0:01:48.209,0:01:57.057 And to like allow health and size to be put in the same dialogue, is often pretty ableist, 0:01:57.057,0:02:01.263 in that like, if you're not healthy it's bad, if you are, it's ok to be fat, 0:02:01.263,0:02:03.841 in some ways is not the way that we should be going about things. 0:02:03.841,0:02:07.211 We should just be thinking that it's ok to be fat, no matter what, 0:02:07.211,0:02:11.076 uh, and if you are ok with it, then you should be ok with it, and that's it. 0:02:11.076,0:02:14.060 Uh, and also just, yeah, that's basically it... 0:02:14.060,0:02:18.536 to think about health and fatness in that way, 0:02:18.536,0:02:24.034 and just be, I guess, eating with people of colour who are like nice and fat. 0:02:24.034,0:02:26.947 [Sara] Yeah, I mean what Jackie was saying, 0:02:26.947,0:02:30.914 I think for me it's really important to be around people who look like me 0:02:30.914,0:02:32.602 and think the same way I do, 0:02:32.602,0:02:38.077 but also just feel safe...[laughing & stumbling over words] safe as a fat person, 0:02:38.077,0:02:42.872 safe being visible, safe like eating in public, 0:02:42.872,0:02:46.681 and not feeling pressured to like, y'know, have body shame 0:02:46.681,0:02:50.467 or you know, like I need to lose weight, or need to talk about losing weight, 0:02:50.467,0:02:56.268 or feel like I always have to work on what I look like because I'm fat. 0:02:56.268,0:03:01.402 Um, and so, just y'know, being around people of colour and eating, and being fat, and being visible, 0:03:01.402,0:03:06.345 and being happy doing that, and I think that that's something really important to me. 0:03:07.304,0:03:09.855 [Asam] I think we just sort of like jumped on this bandwagon 0:03:09.855,0:03:16.083 because there's so few people of colour who are fat and queer 0:03:16.083,0:03:20.658 and it would be really nice to see more fat positive brown people, 0:03:20.658,0:03:23.971 or just people of colour in general. 0:03:23.971,0:03:28.615 Um, and I would just like us to like, you know, have a space where... 0:03:28.615,0:03:33.028 or have some sort of dialogue where we do actually talk about how difficult it can be 0:03:33.028,0:03:36.912 being fat positive in such a fatphobic world. 0:03:36.912,0:03:39.353 So yeah, I'm really excited. 0:03:39.353,0:03:40.845 [Jackie] Me too! 0:03:40.845,0:03:46.780 I hope that if people want to like actually upload things, videos or like text or whatever themselves too, 0:03:46.780,0:03:49.507 that would rule, that would be so cool. 0:03:49.507,0:03:53.168 Um, yeah. Anyways, hopefully we will make another one sometime. 0:03:53.168,0:03:55.000 Ok, bye!