Watching Our Weights: The Contradictions of Televising Fatness in the "Obesity Epidemic"

Winner of the 2020 Gourmand Awards, Food Writing Section, USA​

Watching Our Weights explores the competing and contradictory fat representations on television that are related to weight-loss and health, medicalization and disease, and body positivity and fat acceptance. While television—especially reality television—is typically understood to promote individual self-discipline and expert interventions as necessary for transforming fat bodies into thin bodies, fat representations and narrativ...