This class will explore feedist fiction as a vehicle of healing from fatphobia and restrictive eating. In the first half of the class, I will give a brief overview of my experience with disordered eating and body dysmorphia as well as my experience in the Tumblr feedism community. I will provide examples of my own writing and describe the ways in which they work to undo my own disordered or dysmorphic thinking around food and bodies.

In the second half of the class, I will lead a writing exercise where participants are asked to reimagine a scene from a movie/book/their own work to include at least one character in a fat body. The object of this exercise is to describe this fat character in a positive, desirable light. How does their body look and feel? How do they take up space in the scene? What positive connotations do they, or the narrating character, associate with their body? What does representing them as fat change about the scene or about societal standards?