English Teaching: Practice & Critique: Volume 23 Issue 2

Guest editorial: An open letter to fat people, their teachers, and their critics

Dywanna E. Smith, Jarvais Jackson

Nurturing loving fat: growing beyond the weeds of fat phobia

Dywanna E. Smith

This study aims to use an autoethnography and ethnopoetic approach, interweaving personal narratives with scholarly research, to illuminate the profound and far-reaching…

For Da Brothas: a call for fat, black male and masculine folx literature

Jarvais Jackson, Allen D. Taste, Robert Prosser

This study rigorously explores the intersectional challenges faced by black fat males, emphasizing the amalgamation of anti-fat bias, gender and sexuality and racial…

I apologize: body positivity love movements

Janice Baines, Sharon Dublin, Allesia Cherry, Tamia Norris, Taylor Christmas, Ijanah Phillips, Cameron Cromer

This paper delves into the profound influence of societal beauty standards and the prevalence of body shaming in contemporary culture. It explores how these societal norms…

From the side-eye of a fat black girl: using pop culture to tackle fat phobia in education

Kenesha Johnson

This paper aims to address weight-based bullying as a persistent issue among adolescents. Fat phobia, rooted in societal biases against overweight individuals, leads to social…

“I like the way I am”: invisibility and activism in children’s picture books with fat protagonists

Anne Valauri

Early childhood and early elementary are key times when children develop internal and external antifat attitudes; thus, it is necessary to better understand the available…

We need bigger mirrors: the importance of fat fiction for young readers

Kristen A. Foos

This paper aims to investigate how narrative is constructed to create connections with fat readers, how books function to envision spaces of fat liberation for young readers and…

Loving the skin, you’re in: a deconstruction of children’s literature that focus on body (size) issues

Delphia Smith

This paper aims to evaluate children’s literature that focuses on body size issues for elementary readers.

Responding to representations of fatphobia in prose and comics

Nicole Ann Amato

The purpose of this paper is to explore teacher candidates’ response to young adult literature (prose and comics) featuring fat identified protagonists. The paper considers the…

A multicultural education perspective: engaging students and educators to critically exam fat ideology in teacher education and P-12 classrooms

Nan Li, Angela Peters

In recent years, issues related to body image, fat shaming, and societal perceptions of weight have gained more attention in educational discourse (Carmona-Márquez, et al., 2023;…