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What Taylor Swift’s 'Anti-Hero' controversy can tell us about fatphobia in feminist politics

By Kristin Rodier, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Athabasca University
Heather McLean, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies and Human Geography, Athabasca University

By only discussing fatphobia in the context of eating disorders, Taylor Swift illustrates how deeply individualized and depoliticized white feminism is.

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