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Carlie Pendleton (they/she)
@carliegem89.bsky.social
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Fat Historian. PhDing at Goldsmiths UoL.
Thesis: “Riots Not Diets: A Queer History of Fat Activism in 20th-Century Britain”
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carliegem89.bsky.social
Any government that funds genocide, cuts benefits for disabled ppl, & legislates trans ppl out of existence does not give a FUCK about ppl being healthy.

You know what’s actually good for ppl’s health?

Not having bombs dropped on them!

Anyway, here’s to my next stipend for “promoting obesity.” 🥂
Section of a BBC article “Seven ways Starmer's plan could change the NHS” Obesity ‘moonshot’ The plans include what the government is calling an "ambitious moonshot", aiming to "end the obesity epidemic". There will be "digital NHS points" for people who improve their diet or meet exercise goals. It's modelled on a Singapore scheme where citizens who walk more, buy healthier foods or go to health screenings can earn points to exchange for e-vouchers to use in supermarkets and restaurants. Athletics elder statesman, Sir Brendan Foster, will spearhead a campaign to get millions walking or running regularly. Access to NHS weight loss services and treatments, including medications such as Wegovy and Mounjaro, will be expanded. But planned legislation to ban some supermarket promotions of unhealthy food, including buy-one-get-one-free offers, might be dropped in favour of "smarter regulation, focused on outcomes".
July 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
carliegem89.bsky.social
It’s Okay to Just Admit That You’re Jealous of Me: A History of How Mediocre White Men Will Literally Do Anything Except Sit with Their Feelings
Screenshot of a Twitter exchange. @ME_McCullough: Stop using pop culture references as the first half of the title of your journal article @talk2spirit: Who Gon Check Me, Boo: A Phenomenological Study of Entitled Gate Keeping of Scholarly Contributions
June 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
carliegem89.bsky.social
Ah yes, the 3 genders
Screenshot with caption from the comedy St Denis Medical where a white male doctor says “Men, women…lab techs”
June 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
carliegem89.bsky.social
IT’S 1ST JUNE!

Hibernation over!

I am available to book for all your #queerhistory needs!

Will work for gay bacon 🌈 #Pride #PrideMonth #LGBTQ
Meme. Caption says Me: My sexuality does not define me. Also me, all pride month: “MOVE, I’M GAY.@ Image is of a bitchy white gay man barging his way though people in an office to use the copy machine
June 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
carliegem89.bsky.social
Baffled that ppl still think putting Americans in positions of power is a good thing #Pope
Pic of Ava from Abbott Elementary saying “So he knew you and was like…more?”
May 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
carliegem89.bsky.social
Labour is so cooked
Screenshot from British political satire series “The Thick of It.” A character says, in disbelief, “We’re now in favour of drowning sailors and starving children?”
March 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
carliegem89.bsky.social
Happy Pi Day!

Speaking of pie, I’ll be presenting some new work on fattening queer utopias at the Gender & Sexuality History Workshop at the University of Cambridge next Tuesday at 5pm!

Online, free to attend, and you can sign up here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/gender-and-s... 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🥧 #QueerHistory #History
Spring term card for the Gender and Sexuality History Workshop at the University of Cambridge. Talks for 18th March: Carlie Pendleton "Taking Pleasure in Our Bodies": Finding Fat Queer Utopias at the National Fat Women's Conference of 1989 Goldsmiths, University of London and King’s College London Laura Cecilio Samba: Brazilian Fabulation Catholic Pontifical University of São Paulo All sessions to meet 17:00-18:30 GMT
March 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
carliegem89.bsky.social
So excited to be a part of this fabulous term card @camhistory.bsky.social Gender & Sexuality Workshop!

Talk will be online so please come along if you can 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #QueerHistory

www.hist.cam.ac.uk/gender-and-s...
Michaelmas Term Card Tuesday 19th November, Hybrid: Teams and Room S3, Alison Richard Building Carlie Pendleton "Taking Pleasure in Our Bodies": Finding Fat Queer Utopias at the National Fat Women's Conference of 1989 Goldsmiths, University of London and King’s College London Yanara Schmacks “But who still remembers Shulamith Firestone?”: Reproductive Technology and the Peculiarities of German History The Graduate Center, CUNY Tuesday 26th November, Teams Ashita Alag The Road not Taken: Gender-Neutrality in the Indian Rape Law University of Oxford Clara Martínez-Moreno Vulva, Womb or Vagina? Female Genitalia Terminology in Medico-Magical Papyri from Ancient Egypt Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Tuesday 3rd December, Teams Abdullah Faqih Queer and Muslim Narratives in New Order Indonesia (1968-1998): Navigating Inner Conflict and Challenging Religious Interpretation Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia Nelani De Costa The Positionality of Women in Narrating History: A Study of the Postcolonial Sri Lankan-Australian Novel University of New South Wales, Australia Sushree Routray From Constitutional Morality to Popular Morality: Queer Necropolitics and the Precariat Hijra Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee All sessions to meet 17:00-18:30 GMT Teams link to be shared via mailing list
November 15, 2024 at 1:14 PM
carliegem89.bsky.social
Being depressed but doing my best to simultaneously serve cunt is what I hope to bring to Bsky 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Screenshot of a caption by Chappell Roan: "Do not let society manipulate you into believing you can't be depressed while simultaneously committing yourself to serving cunt. You can. And you will.
November 12, 2024 at 8:22 PM