A guide to being the elephant in the room : a study on the residual behaviours stemming from bodyweight stigma

• Main Author: Jayakumar Sandhya Pillai
• Other Authors: Ng Ee Ching Candice
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Visual arts and music::Visual arts; Social sciences::Communication
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/139677
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Body weight and its accompanying stigma in society has always been a personal point of contention for me. From a very young age, I was hyper-aware of the fact that traversing this world in a bigger body would result in lower social capital, hyper visibility and sexual invisibility. In today’s societ...