In our six-nation comparative research project examining how women of colour activists in London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen and Madrid organise mobilise against austerity, the far right for migrants’ rights, we found experiencing intense feelings loneliness their work. Emotional turmoil activist spaces is to be expected since are mobilised action precisely because deeply felt emotions...

Though the general populace has been introduced to the idea of thin privilege, the fat activist movement has been slow in gaining momentum. This is due, in part, to the symbolic annihilation of “fat” people in media. Within the fat activist framework, women of color are often further excluded from the overarching discourse and white privilege is sometimes unacknowledged. Taking an intersectiona...