Caleb Luna / chairbreaker - Proud fat-disabled-bipoc-neuroqueer-femme-workingclass-autistic-dancing-anticolonilaist-tejanx "academic" who is "envisioning fatter strategies toward freedom from a queer of color lens"

[Carver]

How can they dance while obese? Dancing requires practice/training
Also, are their labels going to hit double digits?

He's pretty clearly one of the academic-speak liberal-arts screed types, not the actual like pushing the boundary of the art type. It's unlikely that he ever leaves academia, and instead attaches himself to the university money machine like a lump, eking out paid positions, TA, teaching jobs, etc as a career - if he's incredibly lucky, he'll get a professor position, and retire on a meager tenure pension if he even makes it to 60. Considering that arts degrees are overpacked, and his genre is functionally useless for most jobs, he's going to face a LOT of competition actually becoming a full-time, professional, paid academic or working professionally in his field. He doesn't publish in any rigorous journals, either, nor does he have any well received performances.

He doesn't appear to have rich parents, (google says he grew up in an apartment complex) so he's likely working part or full time in retail/etc. He doesn't talk about it, so it's hard to say. He's pretty good at using social media to advance his profile, tbh.

At 34, his academic and artistic "career" is in a real grim place.

It's a pretty miserable existence imo, but some people like writing endless 17-view articles and attending undisciplined salons about really wide subject matters - they're idiots, because you can basically just get high and riff for an hour and then at the end everyone buttpats each other about how smart they are. Career wise, the light at the end of the tunnel is a train direct to retail for 95% of these people.

I'm extremely qualified on a specific subject, and one of the handful of secrets to my academic and professional success (besides leaving academia lol), was being willing to walk out 10 minutes in when people started talking about how [redacted] made them feel instead of actual, material impacts. If you cant timebox and adhere to an agenda, you're not having a subject expert roundtable/fireside/discussion, you're having a circlejerk. That's part of why I have such a hate-on for these types of useless zero-impact word-salad time-wasters. my field's small enough that specifics could be used to dox me

 

[Sw33t track]

How the hell do you major in dance if your performance ability is severely constrained?

There's majors in... dance?!

 

[Carver]

There's majors in... dance?!

Yeah, it's actually can be a pretty intensive subject - for example, ballet dancers, stage managers, sports medicine (for dance/athletic productions), theory/choreography, music composition, learning how to teach dancing, studying the history of dancing, etc. But, it's also about being a butter goblin writing retarded screeds about how weighing more than a motorcycle is actually a revolutionary act that will set on fire the entrenched powers that oppress us all.

New post. Plus, we got a new label! [Autism has been unlocked]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQKHMXVAtNC/ archive

I was first diagnosed with ADHD as a child. But what I remember is the doctor saying a stimulant would be good for me, as an appetite suppresant. My body had been so pathologized and medicalized it did not seem out of the ordinary for me to be prescribed a weight loss drug. I didn’t take it for very long, and it would be more than a decade later I would be reminded of my diagnosis—after years and years of challenges and internalizing the negative messaging I was receiving (and continue to receive) for the different way my brain functions.​

The more I learn about both ADHD and Autism, the more I understand the ways my neurodivergence was overlooked, and instead I was punished for being different; my fatness, coupled with my brownness, interpreted as the physical manifestation of this difference and weaponized against me as an individual failing.

Sitting with the frequency with which medical fatphobia, especially when combined with racism, blocks access to care and well being for fat people of color across a variety of experiences. Angry at the frequency with which science & medicine are neutralized as objective. My story isn’t unique.

Grateful to be reconnecting with the self subjected to so much pathology with the compassion and understanding they have always deserved.

[[ID: Image 1: Selfie of Caleb from the shoulder up, taken from slightly below; they are looking down, their face is sunkissed framed by a head of curls.

Image 2: Photo of Caleb’s shadowed silhouette from the side, backlit against a gray background.]]​

 

[Adolphin]

Another fine candidate for the gas chambers.

 

[The Emperor Skeksis]

New post. Plus, we got a new label! [Autism has been unlocked]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQKHMXVAtNC/ archive

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I was first diagnosed with ADHD as a child. But what I remember is the doctor saying a stimulant would be good for me, as an appetite suppresant. My body had been so pathologized and medicalized it did not seem out of the ordinary for me to be prescribed a weight loss drug. I didn’t take it for very long, and it would be more than a decade later I would be reminded of my diagnosis—after years and years of challenges and internalizing the negative messaging I was receiving (and continue to receive) for the different way my brain functions.​

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The more I learn about both ADHD and Autism, the more I understand the ways my neurodivergence was overlooked, and instead I was punished for being different; my fatness, coupled with my brownness, interpreted as the physical manifestation of this difference and weaponized against me as an individual failing.​

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Sitting with the frequency with which medical fatphobia, especially when combined with racism, blocks access to care and well being for fat people of color across a variety of experiences. Angry at the frequency with which science & medicine are neutralized as objective. My story isn’t unique.​

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Grateful to be reconnecting with the self subjected to so much pathology with the compassion and understanding they have always deserved.​

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[[ID: Image 1: Selfie of Caleb from the shoulder up, taken from slightly below; they are looking down, their face is sunkissed framed by a head of curls.​

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Image 2: Photo of Caleb’s shadowed silhouette from the side, backlit against a gray background.]]​

To his 'credit' Luna always manages to get all the buzzwords in, even in a short post. ADHD autism neurodivergent fatness brownness fatphobia racism CHECK.

 

[R00T]

Checking my thin privilege but the one thing I never understand about the fat acceptance movement is that they blindly try to justify that being fat is happy. Sure maybe you’re happy, but if you took the effort to take care of yourself, exercise, and eat healthy you would just be happier. Physically you look better, mentally you think better, and as a result your social life gets better.

Luna is a special case too! His whole career could explode if he lost the weight! Come up with routines dedicated to weight loss. What sort of moves promote the most physical activity, log it, and publish!

 

[Compulsory Games]

The more I learn about both ADHD and Autism, the more I understand the ways my neurodivergence was overlooked, and instead I was punished for being different; my fatness, coupled with my brownness, interpreted as the physical manifestation of this difference and weaponized against me as an individual failing.​

This is literally the opposite of "weaponizing" something "as an individual failing." An official ADHD and/or autism diagnosis isn't "overlooking neurodivergence," it's ACKNOWLEDGING an actual, neurological basis for his issues instead of saying he's a fat lazy Mexican who can't focus. An ADHD diagnosis can be life-changing and stimulants can be a godsend for people who really struggle with executive functioning problems, but homeboy prefers ranting about how he's PROUD to be a fat Mexican who can't focus, it's everyone else who is failing individually. Methinks xir doth protest too much.

 

[Carver]

I didn't mention it in the op, but: a strong indicator of a true DDIQ and/or unchecked mental illness is being into astrology


"before the colonizers came, native people floated across the land, blimp-like in appearance and behavior"

JESUS CHRIST HONEY

such a fuckin banger that i added it to the op

 

[Decepticon Spy]

JESUS CHRIST HONEY
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Ma, the damn circus sideshow got loose and is devouring our entire pantry again!

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

That fucking smug face.
Edit: Noticed the "Venus" tattoo that artists/people on Tumblr theorized it's
A) Fertility Goddess ritual jewelry
B) A self-portrait
He will troon out for more labels.

 

[R00T]

So wait? Does he just believe all native peoples were fat before the Europeans came? I'd actually be curious to see if there are any studies showing what a typical native height and weight pre-colonialism would be and comparing it to post. I would imagine people were smaller, and more fit. I'd also guess the less fit people would be elders who wouldn't partake a physical role in the tribe's survival.

Or is this the result of the old saying "use the whole buffalo."

 

[Carver]

So wait? Does he just believe all native peoples were fat before the Europeans came? I'd actually be curious to see if there are any studies showing what a typical native height and weight pre-colonialism would be and comparing it to post. I would imagine people were smaller, and more fit. I'd also guess the less fit people would be elders who wouldn't partake a physical role in the tribe's survival.

Or is this the result of the old saying "use the whole buffalo."

The logic is really stupid and simple. Basically, it's: "I'm fat. Brown people are more likely to be fat. The only reason we want to be skinny is because of 'colonialist' values (ie white people).". It doesn't take history into account at all.

By the way, where did "thin is good" come from? Well, one of the many places it shows up is in the French revolution and the early stages of the revolution of French cuisine, specifically people realizing that when their nobles got too fat, they died at 40 from gout.

"fat=good" waivers to "fat=bad" seemingly depending on how effective a culture is at dealing with food scarcity. That element of "fat = wealth" shows up in pretty much every culture - it's a holdover from when food was incredibly scarce and the average person lived at caloric equality due to a scarcity of food and daily farm labor. The only people who were fat were the lords, nobles, and clergy.

Caleb hasn't connected the dots that fat is only a status symbol in cultures with food scarcity, or relatively recent food scarcity. His family is likely recent immigrants taken from a culture that dealt regularly with starvation and daily hard physical labor, and was thrust into McDonalds and jobs that require hardly any strenuous movement at all - no wonder recent immigrants to America struggle with obesity so badly. As a result, as Hispanic/Latino culture enters into the American middle class, their appetite for nutritionists and weight loss has become so voracious that these businesses are cooking up weight loss dishes designed to satiate the changing tastes of those people.

Caleb's views make a lot more sense if you realize that he's been fat his whole life, over fed to the point of child abuse, disabled from his weight, and had to suffer massive struggles. It's very likely he's had a handful of failed weight loss attempts, and is now entered via sunk cost firmly into the delusion that "I'm meant to be fat".

 

[Compulsory Games]

So wait? Does he just believe all native peoples were fat before the Europeans came? I'd actually be curious to see if there are any studies showing what a typical native height and weight pre-colonialism would be and comparing it to post. I would imagine people were smaller, and more fit. I'd also guess the less fit people would be elders who wouldn't partake a physical role in the tribe's survival.

Or is this the result of the old saying "use the whole buffalo."

That's kind of what the thrifty gene hypothesis addresses, in regards to why so many modern native people are diabetic/fat as fuck.

There is plenty of archaeological evidence to demonstrate that precolonial native people were not fat as fuck.

 

[Fuck You Too Bitch]

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No you're the version of DJ pete who puts a lot of hashtags on your twitter bio because you think that's social activism

 

[Sw33t track]

Yeah, it's actually can be a pretty intensive subject - for example, ballet dancers, stage managers, sports medicine (for dance/athletic productions), theory/choreography, music composition, learning how to teach dancing, studying the history of dancing, etc. But, it's also about being a butter goblin writing retarded screeds about how weighing more than a motorcycle is actually a revolutionary act that will set on fire the entrenched powers that oppress us all.

You're doing nothing but reinforcing my view that caring about dance is a massive waste of time for idiotic up-their-ass snobs, let alone doing a major in it.

New post. Plus, we got a new label! [Autism has been unlocked]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQKHMXVAtNC/ archive



I was first diagnosed with ADHD as a child. But what I remember is the doctor saying a stimulant would be good for me, as an appetite suppresant. My body had been so pathologized and medicalized it did not seem out of the ordinary for me to be prescribed a weight loss drug. I didn’t take it for very long, and it would be more than a decade later I would be reminded of my diagnosis—after years and years of challenges and internalizing the negative messaging I was receiving (and continue to receive) for the different way my brain functions.
The more I learn about both ADHD and Autism, the more I understand the ways my neurodivergence was overlooked, and instead I was punished for being different; my fatness, coupled with my brownness, interpreted as the physical manifestation of this difference and weaponized against me as an individual failing.

Sitting with the frequency with which medical fatphobia, especially when combined with racism, blocks access to care and well being for fat people of color across a variety of experiences. Angry at the frequency with which science & medicine are neutralized as objective. My story isn’t unique.

Grateful to be reconnecting with the self subjected to so much pathology with the compassion and understanding they have always deserved.

[[ID: Image 1: Selfie of Caleb from the shoulder up, taken from slightly below; they are looking down, their face is sunkissed framed by a head of curls.

Image 2: Photo of Caleb’s shadowed silhouette from the side, backlit against a gray background.]]

Like pokemon, he's gonna catch all the oppresion statuses

 

[Decepticon Spy]

You're doing nothing but reinforcing my view that caring about dance is a massive waste of time for idiotic up-their-ass snobs, let alone doing a major in it.

Well, you're not in the wrong on reinforcing that belief. There's no reason for anyone beyond the Naive and delusional to major on something as pointless as that. Fine and Perfomance art colleges are a literal joke.

 

[The Emperor Skeksis]

Caleb's views make a lot more sense if you realize that he's been fat his whole life, over fed to the point of child abuse, disabled from his weight, and had to suffer massive struggles.

That's one thing I learned from this thread that I was not aware of before, and the one thing I'll give him. His parents utterly failed him, and all his health problems can be led back to childhood obesity. I feel for kid-Caleb who had to suffer so much. But fuck adult-Caleb for using that as an excuse.

 

[Much Ado About Nothing]

I don't know why but I am genuinely laughing at this woke fatso having tattooed the "white" version BLM -fist on his chest. Over his heart, nonetheless. Whist the word shameless is scribbled out right next to it. So many choices made here in regards to this tattoo. So many choices. None of them good.

He also does cow-crossovers with our very own Virgie Tovar

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Caleb demands fat liberation.

www.rebeleatersclub.com

https://archive.md/Iylri

Of course he does.
I am hoping this guy will be a gem. Good find!

 

[Carver]

Virgie Tovar: Hey everyone, Virgie here. I hope you’re all hanging in there. I’ve been deep in quarantine-landia, and dealing with it the only way a type-A Taurus knows how - by filling my time with ritual and work.

Why are all of these cows into astrology?

 

[Decepticon Spy]

Why are all of these cows into astrology?

They lack the mental capacity to rationalize or accept the shit happening to them is sometimes out of their control or it's their own doing so they instead pin the blame to the stars why they or other people are the way they are.