The Bandit Zine # 1: Body Image & Sizeism, The Bandit Zine, 2012

File — Box: 1, Folder: 13

Identifier: I

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

A zine focusing on how sizeism, fatphobia, sexism, cissexism, and racism shape a person's relationship to their body and personal body image. It includes nonfiction stories describe the "privilege of thinness," body dysmorphia, losing weight, fatphobia in the media, and the intersections between body image and sexuality.

Published in Grand Rapids, Michigan by The Bandit Zine with contributors Francie VanHoven, Jes Kramer, Lydia VanHoven, Thugfresh Moreno, Francis Hooks, Pearly, Asa Forsythe, Ren Besito, Zuanna Woodlight, C. Smito, Lauren Streett, Michelle Nieweg, Eleanor Rector, Casey Keel, Andy LeBlanc, Kuba Shand Baptiste, Michael Cook, Chain of Prospit, and vividreality.wordpress.com. 36 pages in English.

Dates

2012

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English, Spanish, Hebrew, Chinese, Navajo, Quechua, French, Yiddish, Slovenian, Serbian, Icelandic, and Japanese.

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.