Hello, today I’m going to talk about a book that I’m reading that is called “Cerda punk”.  Cerda punk´s about an anarchist feminist girl who wrote a “fat manifest”, because she is so tired about all the stereotype of skinny body and healthy life.  Actually she is a vegetarian, so she is not fat because she eats junk food like the most of the people could think about her, if she is fat, is because there is more than a “correct type of body” that you can have, and think that the thin human body is the normal body is something that the capitalist society make us believe.  

  This girl, who wrote the book, call herself as “Missogina”, but her real name is Constanza Alvarez Castillo. She is a Chilean girl, who grow up in Valparaiso, under the pressure of are patriarchal and chauvinist culture.   In her book she use her own story, for give us examples of what we (Chilean people) do around people who is not “fit” in the norm.

I think that this is a really interesting reflection around how our bodies are a place that is really normed by society, because our anatomy is a place normed by the bio politics that take us the sovereignty, converting it in a place that don´t belong to us.  It’s not only the things that we eat, or how do we eat, there is a lot of other things around our bodies that we cannot decide too, like abortion, euthanasia, transgenic  food, drugs,  etc., etc.