Jackie Wykes

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Nothing to Lose invites the audience to engage with the richness, nuance, and variety of fat bodies. Ally Garrett, by Toby Burrows

The ‘dancer’s body’ is fat: Force Majeure’s Nothing to Lose

Jackie Wykes, The University of Melbourne and Cat Pausé, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University

Nothing to Lose, by dance theatre company Force Majeure, invites the audience to engage with the richness, nuance, and variety of fat bodies and fat experiences.
Focusing on weight as the problem and weight loss as the solution makes social and economic inequalities invisible. Isaac Brown Stocky Bodies

How anti‑obesity campaigns reinforce stigma

Jackie Wykes, The University of Melbourne

Anti-obesity messages are everywhere – in news, in entertainment, and in public health campaigns. We are constantly being told that fat is bad for us, and that in order to be healthy we need to lose weight…

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