1 00:00:01,195 --> 00:00:01,695 Hi! 2 00:00:01,726 --> 00:00:02,226 Hi! 3 00:00:02,302 --> 00:00:02,802 Hi! 4 00:00:04,002 --> 00:00:04,533 Why are you looking at me?? 5 00:00:04,533 --> 00:00:05,316 To introduce yourself! 6 00:00:05,316 --> 00:00:05,816 oh! 7 00:00:05,816 --> 00:00:06,404 [lots of laughter] 8 00:00:06,404 --> 00:00:06,904 Oh! I'm Sara 9 00:00:07,181 --> 00:00:07,758 I'm Jackie. 10 00:00:07,839 --> 00:00:08,560 I'm Asam. 11 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:12,460 [Jackie] And we are doing a video, uh, 12 00:00:12,739 --> 00:00:18,052 I guess to start off something that we're gonna call "It Gets Fatter Project" 13 00:00:18,052 --> 00:00:19,019 [LAUGHTER] 14 00:00:19,019 --> 00:00:25,144 And so, uh, I'll start a little bit by introducing why it gets fatter. 15 00:00:25,144 --> 00:00:27,404 And so basically it came out of an idea... 16 00:00:27,404 --> 00:00:30,832 I'm from Montreal, and we're in Toronto right now in Asam's apartment, 17 00:00:30,832 --> 00:00:33,699 and, uh, I wanted to have a party 18 00:00:33,699 --> 00:00:38,202 where everyone ate food, and wore, uh, little-to-nothing, 19 00:00:38,202 --> 00:00:39,192 like bikinis maybe, 20 00:00:39,192 --> 00:00:42,225 and were just like really positive about their bodies around each other, 21 00:00:42,225 --> 00:00:44,283 and like eating food in public together, and blah blah blah. 22 00:00:44,283 --> 00:00:49,113 And, uh, my friend Marty suggested that we call it the It Gets Fatter Party, 23 00:00:49,113 --> 00:00:51,617 and I think that was a great idea. 24 00:00:51,617 --> 00:00:55,613 And from that I was talking to these two while we were sitting around and eating cheese 25 00:00:55,613 --> 00:00:59,682 and brie, and now ice cream, 26 00:00:59,682 --> 00:01:03,639 that maybe, it could be like a project, like It Gets Better, 27 00:01:03,639 --> 00:01:07,260 but ACTually better, because it's people of colour who are doing it. 28 00:01:07,260 --> 00:01:10,207 So that was kind of why we thought that it might be fun to do, 29 00:01:10,207 --> 00:01:12,212 and this is kind of like our introductory video. 30 00:01:12,212 --> 00:01:14,190 So...uh... try to go fast... 31 00:01:14,190 --> 00:01:19,849 but um so basically the thing that I think is important with fat, uh, maybe not "fat acceptance", 32 00:01:19,849 --> 00:01:22,870 because I don't particularly like that term that much, 33 00:01:22,870 --> 00:01:24,707 but body positivity, 34 00:01:24,707 --> 00:01:27,482 instead of thinking about acceptance, just being positive about your body, 35 00:01:27,482 --> 00:01:32,217 Is that to stop the whole equating it with health. 36 00:01:32,217 --> 00:01:35,595 So like fatness and health don't really need to be uh together, 37 00:01:35,595 --> 00:01:38,309 cuz it's kind of an ableist thing to do. 38 00:01:38,309 --> 00:01:43,360 Instead of talking about just like, it's ok if someone is unhealthy, 39 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:44,676 because there's lots of different... 40 00:01:44,676 --> 00:01:46,290 or that YOU think someone is unhealthy, 41 00:01:46,290 --> 00:01:48,209 cuz there's lots of different ways of defining health. 42 00:01:48,209 --> 00:01:57,057 And to like allow health and size to be put in the same dialogue, is often pretty ableist, 43 00:01:57,057 --> 00:02:01,263 in that like, if you're not healthy it's bad, if you are, it's ok to be fat, 44 00:02:01,263 --> 00:02:03,841 in some ways is not the way that we should be going about things. 45 00:02:03,841 --> 00:02:07,211 We should just be thinking that it's ok to be fat, no matter what, 46 00:02:07,211 --> 00:02:11,076 uh, and if you are ok with it, then you should be ok with it, and that's it. 47 00:02:11,076 --> 00:02:14,060 Uh, and also just, yeah, that's basically it... 48 00:02:14,060 --> 00:02:18,536 to think about health and fatness in that way, 49 00:02:18,536 --> 00:02:24,034 and just be, I guess, eating with people of colour who are like nice and fat. 50 00:02:24,034 --> 00:02:26,947 [Sara] Yeah, I mean what Jackie was saying, 51 00:02:26,947 --> 00:02:30,914 I think for me it's really important to be around people who look like me 52 00:02:30,914 --> 00:02:32,602 and think the same way I do, 53 00:02:32,602 --> 00:02:38,077 but also just feel safe...[laughing & stumbling over words] safe as a fat person, 54 00:02:38,077 --> 00:02:42,872 safe being visible, safe like eating in public, 55 00:02:42,872 --> 00:02:46,681 and not feeling pressured to like, y'know, have body shame 56 00:02:46,681 --> 00:02:50,467 or you know, like I need to lose weight, or need to talk about losing weight, 57 00:02:50,467 --> 00:02:56,268 or feel like I always have to work on what I look like because I'm fat. 58 00:02:56,268 --> 00:03:01,402 Um, and so, just y'know, being around people of colour and eating, and being fat, and being visible, 59 00:03:01,402 --> 00:03:06,345 and being happy doing that, and I think that that's something really important to me. 60 00:03:07,304 --> 00:03:09,855 [Asam] I think we just sort of like jumped on this bandwagon 61 00:03:09,855 --> 00:03:16,083 because there's so few people of colour who are fat and queer 62 00:03:16,083 --> 00:03:20,658 and it would be really nice to see more fat positive brown people, 63 00:03:20,658 --> 00:03:23,971 or just people of colour in general. 64 00:03:23,971 --> 00:03:28,615 Um, and I would just like us to like, you know, have a space where... 65 00:03:28,615 --> 00:03:33,028 or have some sort of dialogue where we do actually talk about how difficult it can be 66 00:03:33,028 --> 00:03:36,912 being fat positive in such a fatphobic world. 67 00:03:36,912 --> 00:03:39,353 So yeah, I'm really excited. 68 00:03:39,353 --> 00:03:40,845 [Jackie] Me too! 69 00:03:40,845 --> 00:03:46,780 I hope that if people want to like actually upload things, videos or like text or whatever themselves too, 70 00:03:46,780 --> 00:03:49,507 that would rule, that would be so cool. 71 00:03:49,507 --> 00:03:53,168 Um, yeah. Anyways, hopefully we will make another one sometime. 72 00:03:53,168 --> 00:03:55,000 Ok, bye!