To talk about Fatphobia, Camila Serna invites Luz Lancheros, journalist and fashion history teacher, who will share her critical perspective on Latin American culture, the body and fashion.
We are all affected, in some way, by the system of oppression that is fatphobia, but not in the same way.
Fatphobia hits fat people violently, and they take its worst hit. Those who embody a fat body suffer from a stigma that forces them to relate to a world designed to deny their bodies. In this episode, cultural violence such as self-harm, the mechanisms of oppression on the body, fashion, culture and Body Positivity are analyzed.
What do these mechanisms of oppression look like on a daily basis?
Luz Lancheros comments on insurers, because they discriminate against plus-size people considering that, because they have a certain BMI, they are more likely to die prematurely or suffer more pathologies than other people.
How do you experience Fatphobia as an oppressive system in fashion?
Dresses no longer adapt to bodies, as happened before the industrial production that generated World War II, but now bodies adapt to dresses.
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Since there has been a size system, a pharmaceutical discourse of a small and thin body that fits into size systems that make women feel dissatisfied has been created. A very western idea that has been taught since the 50s.
Modeling, fashion design, design education and other fashion guilds have discriminated against and enslaved many women to fit into the established cultural parameters.
Fashion has sold us aspirational messages that continue to be maintained in the imagination of the population. Other visions of beauty and other visions of fashion are very important because they help break down discrimination and stereotypes.
The process of disarming Fatphobia is complicated. But it is this process that liberates and allows us to rethink true bodily freedom.
In a medium as elitist as Colombian and Latin American fashion, Luz Lancheros has relied on her style to break barriers and have another look at the medium.
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