Self-love is not going to fix us or the colony: Reclaiming fat Blak embodiment

This article critically examines the limitations of self-love as a tool for healing fatness within the colonial framework, arguing that its mainstream promotion is insufficient to address the structural, historical, and ongoing traumas of living in the colony. These harms include the violent disruption of Indigenous relationships with food, land, and cultural food systems, alongside continued restrictions on access to culturally grounded food resources that are central to health, identity, and collective wellbeing. Instead, the authors call for a reclamation of Blak embodiment that names colonial violence and erasure. In this article, we throw our ancestral, intellectual, and physical big Blak bodies around as we demand abundance, space, and refusal.