In 2011, UCLA professor Abigail Saguy of the departments of Sociology and Women’s Studies published an article entitled “Why Fat is a Feminist Issue.” As a basis for her arguments, she cites the findings of Janna Fikkan and Esther Rothblum’s essay “Is Fat a Feminist Issue?” that acknowledges fat as a feminist issue and proposes that fat women experience bias, discrimination, and abuse specifically because they are fat women. Sabuy, who agrees with Fikkan and Rothblum’s reasoning, argues that their feminist analysis must be further developed, which she effectively does by presenting…