Students at the University of Maryland will be given the chance to take a course called “Intro to Fat Studies” in the spring semester of 2025.
In the three-credit course, “Intro to Fat Studies: Fatness, Blackness and Their Intersections,” fatness will be examined “as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination,” and the course will also “highlight the relationship between fatness and Blackness,” according to the course description.
The course, which will be taught by Professor Sydney Lewis, a Senior Lecturer in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), will also “look at fatness at intersectional.”
“Examines fatness as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersects with other systems of oppression based on gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and…
