„Grubancypacja. O grubości bez przepraszania” – spotkanie z Urszulą Chowaniec i Natalią Skoczylas

"I'm tired of being diminished, of shrinking, of fitting myself into someone else's aesthetic expectations, of debating my right to exist. With this book, I want to show that fatness is an unnoticed, discriminated-against trait, even though the exclusion of fat people is a common phenomenon," says Natalia Skoczylas about the book "Grubancypacja" (Fat ancestry), co-written with Urszula Chowaniec. We invite you to watch the recording of a meeting with Urszula Chowaniec and Natalia Skoczylas, authors of the book "Grubancypacja. O Thickness Without Apology" (W.A.B.), led by Dr. Zuzanna Kołodziejska-Smagała. The topic of the conversation was the body and the invisible discrimination based on its size. 🌺 About the book: What's it like to live on the other side of diet culture? Urszula Chowaniec and Natalia Skoczylas – tireless myth-busters and activists fighting for equal treatment – ​​weave a multi-layered story about how being fat is nothing to be ashamed of. This book is a fat-mancipation primer that will change how we think and talk about fat, give you tools to change your body image, and reveal the reality of those experiencing systemic discrimination based on body size. 🌺 About the authors: Natalia Skoczylas – lawyer, anti-violence and anti-discrimination expert, and Urszula Chowaniec – cultural studies scholar and feminist, operating under the umbrella of Vingardium Grubiosa. They were included on the 2021 Śmiałe list by Wysokie Obcasy and honored in 2022 by Newsweek as exceptional Polish women trying to change the world. The Vingardium Grubiosa duo was also nominated in the Ofeminin Influence Awards (2022) and received the Glamour Women of the Year title (2022) in the e-activism category. Natalia and Ula are also the authors of the acclaimed report "Haven't You Thought of Losing Weight?" The Experiences of Fat People in Contact with Healthcare (2023). 🌺 About the presenter: Zuzanna Kołodziejska-Smagała – PhD in Humanities and researcher, currently affiliated with the University of Wrocław. Her research focuses primarily on 19th-century Polish-Jewish literature and press, and she is interested in the intersection of cultures. She is currently researching how the Polish-Jewish cultural intersection is revealed in discourses on corporeality and sexuality.