Sublime

7 DISABILITY AND FAT STUDIES Support-Group Identity Theory

I find it irresistibly interesting when people are cathected onto their bad style rather than simply oblivious to it (a description that may apply to us all; I sense the risk increases with age).

attentive to the deceitful machinations of those who fancy themselves the self-appointed stewards of humanity.

Feminism is often dismissed as a personal failing, not just a tendency but a flaw, as if she disagrees with something because she is being disagreeable; as if she opposes something because she is being oppositional. Your reaction to what is said can be used to justify a judgment that has already been made: She would say that. She would say that; I

These youth are born into environments of state-sanctioned deprivation, or “organized abandonment,” as political geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls it.

which have historically propelled feminism. The appeal of the changes that women are encouraged to make in transforming themselves into confident subjects is that they are (supposedly) small, quick, easy, and, crucially, not disruptive.

reflected back at us in our institutions and social relationships.

changing self-identity and changing social norms.

At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to choose—between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation.