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Charlotte Cooper (born 1968) is a London-based British writer and outspoken advocate for gay rights and fat acceptance. She describes herself as "queer, from a working-class background, white, middle-aged, and have a load of higher education. I have poly relationships and am sort-of femme". Cooper is both an academic and mainstream author. She has published articles in academic journals such as ''Disability and Society''.and is herself a board member of ''Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society'' She has written many articles on fat acceptance and gay rights issues for websites, magazines and newspapers, including ''Diva'', the U.K.'s leading lesbian magazine and UK national newspaper ''The Guardian''. Cooper is also news editor for RainbowNetwork.com, the largest gay and lesbian portal in the UK. She is a prolific author of zines and performs in the queercore band 'Homosexual Death Drive'.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://wow.southbankcentre.co.uk/artists/charlotte-cooper/ )〕 Charlotte Cooper describes her approach to fat activism:
==Biography== Cooper's 2002 novel, ''Cherry'', about a young woman's experience and discovery of lesbianism, attracted controversy when copies were impounded by Canadian Customs officers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Under Attack: An Update on Censorship and Freedom of Expression in Canada )〕 Reasons given were the scenes of fisting and golden showers. In 2007, Cooper coined the term “headless fatty” to describe negative media representations of fat people Obesity.〔Cooper, Charlotte. “Headless Fatties” CharlotteCooper.net. Jan. 07. Web. 7 Nov. 2013 < http://charlottecooper.net/publishing/digital/headless-fatties-01-07/>〕 In 2010, Cooper was a Government of Ireland Ph.D scholar at Limerick University date where she wrote a history of the fat activist movement in which she argued that it is closely allied with the feminist movement and, like it, has undergone waves of activity. Cooper has co-produced a number of events with fat activism themes including 'The Fat of the Land', 'Big Bum Jumble' and 2012's 'Fattylympics', a protest against both attitudes to fat and the London 2012 Olympics, held in Stratford, where she lives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://fattylympics.blogspot.co.uk/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charlotte Cooper (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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