I thought this was a very interesting essay by a fat woman on the lack of fat women in science fiction/fantasy stories (movies, novels, TV, comics, etc.). [Link found on Already Pretty]
Bonus: it includes a link on a YouTube video of the unaired original pilot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in which Willow is a fat girl. Seriously. I had no idea. If you want to jump straight to a scene with the original big Willow, look at the video in this article that gives Joss Whedon some deeply deserved shit over his series's obsession with skinny chicks (who implausibly kick literal ass). That dude, for all his feminist talk, seems totally committed to the waif fu trope.
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