<i>It Gets Fatter</i>: Graphic Fatness and Resilient Eating in Mariko and Jillian Tamaki's<i>Skim</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Looking to Mariko and Jillian Tamaki's graphic novel Skim, and the digital It Gets Fatter (IGF) project, this article locates fatness and eating as transgressive forms of disabled embodiment. Although fat representation in Skim occurs subtly in the narrative's images rather than explicitly in the accompanying words, visual fatness—the crux of IGF—can be read as the driving force behind this work. In regarding food consumption not as a site of shame but as a means of fat queer and trans people of color (QTPOC) survival, this analysis locates visual representation toward rethinking links between queer fat embodiment, racialization, and disability movements. Keywords: disabilityfatterQTPOCqueer Skim Tamaki Notes 1. QTPOC is used in community and activist contexts to signify a unification between gender and sexual nonconforming people who also face racialization. The term racialization in commonly used by academics to signify the process through which racial identities are socially imposed through factors like colonialism, slavery, neoliberalism, and migration.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".