The art of manifestos / "Fat Liberation Manifesto"

Listen to the "Fat Liberation Manifesto” in this week's bonus manifestos episode.

Judy Freespirit and Aldebaran authored this manifesto in 1973. Read more about fat liberation, and the Fat Underground, along with the full transcript, at Fat Lib Archive.

Bonus Series: The Art of Manifestos 

Manifestos are screams into the sky. They’re a collective voice of millions, or a tiny but terrible voice of a few. They are claims to power by those who are powerless.

And most of the time, the manifestos can seem completely unreasonable. Completely unrealistic. They have no patience for taking things slow, for moderation, for incremental change. They don’t give a fuck about being respectable earning some kind of attention. Fuck that, the manifestos say. We are loud, proud, and demand change now.

So this bonus series focuses on these kinds of manifestos. Each episode highlights one manifesto, talks a little bit about where this came from in context, and a little bit about the author/group. Then a reading. These are bite-sized bits of rage and power to fuel you between regular Art of Resistance episodes.

Read more about this series

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SOURCES

• Burn It Down! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution, Breanne Fahs.