Darby M.
@transfattyacids.bsky.social
they/them | SSHRC funded PhD Candidate @ uOttawa Feminist & Gender Studies doing Queer fat stuff / your annoying pop culture friend with a newsletter / a hater 🏳️⚧️🌭🤠🌸✨
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Darby M.
@transfattyacids.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Genderqueer reflections on Weird Barbie - Darby M. Babin, 2024
For better or worse, Barbie (2023) was part of a summer blockbuster phenonemon. Much of the fanfare around the film included conersations about feminism, ‘girlh...
journals.sagepub.com
Should I use this as an opportunity to start over and actually be A Professional Adult on this app? Hard to say!
But if you like open access academic articles, here’s one from me to you. And yes I did cite my fave film critic @judysquirrels.bsky.social ✨
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
But if you like open access academic articles, here’s one from me to you. And yes I did cite my fave film critic @judysquirrels.bsky.social ✨
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Wrote a little something with my favourite academic aka my PhD supervisor @morsini.bsky.social on Fit For TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser.
theconversation.com/is-the-bigge...
theconversation.com/is-the-bigge...
Is the ‘Biggest Loser’ documentary entangled in its own internalized fatphobia?
The three-part Netflix documentary trafficked in some of the same problematic aspects of the show.
theconversation.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Wrote a little something with my favourite academic aka my PhD supervisor @morsini.bsky.social on Fit For TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser.
theconversation.com/is-the-bigge...
theconversation.com/is-the-bigge...
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looking forward to the slow sellout of everyone who #resisted from 2016-20 to endorse things like fat shaming grifts that are also? aggressively gendered mhm mhm mhm
February 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
looking forward to the slow sellout of everyone who #resisted from 2016-20 to endorse things like fat shaming grifts that are also? aggressively gendered mhm mhm mhm
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childish gambino licensing his ~suberversive anthem~ for a WEIGHT LOSS COMMERCIAL OH MY GOD
February 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
childish gambino licensing his ~suberversive anthem~ for a WEIGHT LOSS COMMERCIAL OH MY GOD
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NICKEL BOYS… that’s a masterpiece right there
January 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
NICKEL BOYS… that’s a masterpiece right there
Misgendered! At The Feminist Function.
December 16, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Misgendered! At The Feminist Function.
This 🧵
I attended a court hearing in Ottawa this morning at 11:30 am for Sarah, a well-known organizer for Ottawa PYM (Palestinian Youth Movement), who is now the sixth protestor arrested in the past week for protesting to end Canada's complicity in Israel's genocide and apartheid.
November 27, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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From Turtle Island to Palestine, genocide is a crime. We refuse to remain silent, and we refuse to allow Canadian complicity, support, and active involvement in this genocide to continue.
November 27, 2024 at 5:17 AM
From Turtle Island to Palestine, genocide is a crime. We refuse to remain silent, and we refuse to allow Canadian complicity, support, and active involvement in this genocide to continue.
One year ago I had top surgery and wow, life is worth living. Trans people are magic in this world. I love us.
November 23, 2024 at 10:08 PM
One year ago I had top surgery and wow, life is worth living. Trans people are magic in this world. I love us.
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EVERYONE WHO EVER TALKED SHIT ON I SAW THE TV GLOW CAN EAT MY FUCKING ASS
November 14, 2024 at 9:44 PM
EVERYONE WHO EVER TALKED SHIT ON I SAW THE TV GLOW CAN EAT MY FUCKING ASS
Should I use this as an opportunity to start over and actually be A Professional Adult on this app? Hard to say!
But if you like open access academic articles, here’s one from me to you. And yes I did cite my fave film critic @judysquirrels.bsky.social ✨
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
But if you like open access academic articles, here’s one from me to you. And yes I did cite my fave film critic @judysquirrels.bsky.social ✨
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Genderqueer reflections on Weird Barbie - Darby M. Babin, 2024
For better or worse, Barbie (2023) was part of a summer blockbuster phenonemon. Much of the fanfare around the film included conersations about feminism, ‘girlh...
journals.sagepub.com
November 14, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Should I use this as an opportunity to start over and actually be A Professional Adult on this app? Hard to say!
But if you like open access academic articles, here’s one from me to you. And yes I did cite my fave film critic @judysquirrels.bsky.social ✨
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
But if you like open access academic articles, here’s one from me to you. And yes I did cite my fave film critic @judysquirrels.bsky.social ✨
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...