Rev. Dr. Anastasia Kidd (’04,’18) interviewed in Sojourners article on Fat Liberation
The following is an excerpt from the Sojourners article “God loves fat people as they are. Can we?” by Greta Lapp Klassen, featuring Director of Contextual Education and lecturer Anastasia Kidd (STH’04, ’18), published on August 20, 2024.
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I’d heard of Christian weight loss programs, but I wanted to know more about the influence Christianity has had on the ideology of anti-fatness. That’s how I discovered the work of Rev. Anastasia E. B. Kidd, director of contextual education at the Boston University School of Theology, pastor in the United Church of Christ, and author of Fat Church: Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation.
Fat Church recognizes that everyone comes to the work of fat-acceptance from a different place and serves as both a primer on the work of combating anti-fatness, and as a place for Kidd to spell out her vision for a different type of Christianity that accepts and celebrates all people, without trying to change them — including fat people. It is a balm of a book, both educational and cathartic.
I talked with Kidd last month about fat liberation, Fat Church, diet culture, and more.
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