Name: Polly Gilmore
Social Justice Group: 2018-2019, Sexualization of Women in Fashion
Date of Fieldwork: January 16, 2019
Name of Organization: N/A
Person (people) with whom I met and their job titles: Fabiana Saba Sutton, Model, television host, and body positivity activist
Type of Fieldwork: Interview
What I did:
We interviewed Fabiana Saba Sutton a “plus-size” model/television host/body positivity activist
What I learned:
We learned how bad modeling can make you feel about your body, “You hear a lot of ‘no’s’ in the industry” she said she would often think that the editors or photographers regretted booking her for a job, or she would wonder “why am I not good enough”. We also learned about how models starve themselves. Fabiana said “I’ve seen girls eat cotton… Girls live off of vinegar”.
What I learned about Social Justice “work” and/or Civil and Human rights “work” from this fieldwork:
We learned that sometimes what it takes to get a brands attention is a boycott, for example, Victoria’s Secret did not include plus-size or transgender models because they did not exemplify the fantasy that Victoria’s Secret is trying to sell, so people who believe that transgender and plus size people should be represented have started to boycott them.
