Episode 52: Twitter Trash Raccoon

We talk about Sumos forced to play during Covid, Glamour’s new article on fat sex and attraction, and institutional fatphobia, when social media companies erase fat bodies to promote brand or community standards.

Pop Culture

• Washington Post | How the pandemic lifted the lid on the ‘Darwinian world’ of Japan’s sumo

• Glamour  | I Don’t Just Want Fat Love on TV. I Want Fat Sex

Fat Watch

• SFGate | 340-pound skateboarder shatters stereotypes with new Bay Area club

Main Topic: Social Media & Institutionalized Fat-phobia

• Vox | The paradox of online “body positivity”

• The Intercept | TikTok Told Moderators to Suppress Posts by “Ugly” People and the Poor to Attract New Users

• Slate | TikTok Admits It Suppressed Videos by Disabled, Queer, and Fat Creators

• Fast Company | This is the impact of Instagram’s accidental fat-phobic algorithm

• WWD | Lingerie Company Accuses TikTok of Discriminatory Post Removal

Tip

• Morpho: Skin and Fat Folds