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Ive been a hermit for most of the year and thats because Ive been building my psychotherapy practice, developing a dance piece called SWAGGA and writing a book called Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement.
The book is based on my PhD thesis, but its been largely rewritten, made accessible and some of the ideas have been developed. Its been three years since I graduated and Ive had time to reflect on things. Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement is going to be published in the UK by HammerOn Press in January 2016, and right now I am finishing up the editorial work before it goes into production.
One of these jobs involves building an index. One of my biggest regrets about my first book, Fat & Proud: The Politics of Size, is that it didnt have an index. This meant that the content of that book is buried in its pages, you have to read the whole thing to find information, you cant just look up the bits that interest you in the back, or get a feel for the book by skimming the index. The only reason it didnt have an index is because the publishers of that book wanted to charge me £150 to include one but I was on the dole at the time and didnt have it. So no index. Its amazing what comes down to money.
HammerOn is a small press built on DIY ethics. This means that if I want an index, I am going to have to do some work on it myself and learn how to construct one. You can probably get an algorithm to have a stab at it, but the best ones are those done by the people who know the text very well. At the moment thats me, though soon other people will be able to join in. So Ive been trawling the text, which is about 70,000 words, looking for key words, key concepts, key people and things that I think should go in an index.
As I look for stuff for the index I cant help thinking about the hundreds of books that I consulted for my PhD. I think about the countless times I looked for fat activism in an index, or even just fat and was disappointed. Some of this disappointment prompted me to develop ideas in the process of writing the thesis and the book: how come it was rare to find an entry for fat activism in books about fat people? How come fat activism, when it was mentioned, usually meant something quite limited? Why would there be entries for body image, weight loss, dieting, but not fat?
Doing the ground work for building an index is both boring and exciting. Trawling the text takes time and focus, its hard work, but the pleasure is in thinking about what this index might look like. Here are some potential entries: Archives, Emotions, Grassroots, Killjoy, London Fat Womens Group, Mama Cass, Power, A Queer and Trans Fat Activist Timeline, Radical Lesbian Feminism, Research Justice, Spud Guns, Standpoint, Venus of Willendorf, White Supremacy. How might my understanding of fat have been different if Id come across an index like this when I was researching fat activism? I feel some grief that nothing like this was out there, and now some hope that its going to exist. Maybe other fat activism indices will exist in the future too.
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