As we start our Fall 2006 Moot Court Project on using story-telling to encourage community in our local neighborhoods, I'd like you to consider a couple of blog entries that I came across on one college's student blog website. See Body Space: Fat Girls and I Will Not Write: An Identity Narrative.

I chose the topic of obesity specifically because I consider it a good example of intersectionality. "Fat Girls" says it all for me. But just in case we'd like some critical consciousness and dialog to reclaim our humanity (Freire, Education for Critical consciousness, at p. 12. " . . . imposing silence and pssivity denies men conditions likely to develop or to 'open' their consciousness." and their humanity.), there is a delightful set of definitions at What is Fat About?--A Definition and Susie Orbach

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