Trans fats: A white trans social worker’s podcasted autoethnography

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dc.contributor.authorO’Brien, Kaitlin (Katie) Rosemary
dc.contributor.supervisorMoosa-Mitha, Mehmoona
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-09T21:52:30Z
dc.date.available2025-12-09T21:52:30Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Social Work
dc.degree.levelMaster of Social Work MSW
dc.description.abstractMy podcasted, autoethnographic thesis ruminates on the question: how is my experience of transgender corporeality mediated by pathologising logics? Drawing on decolonial feminism and disability justice, I review the pathologising ways that transness, fatness, and eating disorders are normatively framed, and connect this pathologisation with the ongoing colonial project. I then explore stories about existing in my small fat, nonbinary trans, white settler body, ultimately arguing that the normative (pathologising) story of fat trans folks with complicated relationships with food and eating does colonial violence to trans people. Along the way, I refuse straightforward answers, remaining critical, uncertain, and curious about how my experiences of systemic marginalisation and privilege always overlap. I conclude by imagining a social work context that is abolitionist and deprofessionalised, centred on principles of harm reduction and community care.
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduate
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/22966
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectTransness
dc.subjectFatness
dc.subjectWhiteness
dc.subjectAutoethnography
dc.subjectScholarly podcasting
dc.subjectDecolonial feminism
dc.subjectDisability justice
dc.subjectLived experience
dc.subjectDepathologisation
dc.subjectAbolitionist social work
dc.titleTrans fats: A white trans social worker’s podcasted autoethnography
dc.typeThesis

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