>The course ‘[e]xamines fatness as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersects with other systems of oppression based on gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and ability.’ >The course is being offered by a professor whose teaching methods seek to ‘blur the boundaries between the academy, art, and activism.’ >The University of Maryland is slated to offer an “Intro to Fat Studies” course in the upcoming spring semester that will focus on “Fatness, Blackness and Their Intersections.” >The three-credit class, which is offered through the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), “[e]xamines fatness as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersects with other systems of oppression based on gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and ability.” . . [Source](https://www.campusreform.org/article/university-maryland-offer-fat-studies-course-intersection-blackness-fatness-/26806)