Cat Pausé, PhD is a Fat Studies scholar at Massey University in New Zealand. She is the lead editor of Queering Fat Embodiment (Ashgate) and theInternational Handbook of Fat Studies(Routledge), and has coordinated three international conferences - Fat Studies: Reflective Intersections (2012), Fat Studies: Identity, Agency, Embodiment (2016), and Fat Studies: Past, Present, Futures (2020). Her research is focused on the effects of fat stigma on health and well-being on fat individuals and how fat activists resist the fatpocalypse. She has called for a new fat ethics, acknowledging the role science has played in the oppression of fat people and ensuring that research around fatness centers fat epistemology. Her work appears in scholarly journals including Fat Studies, Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Feminist Review,andNarrative Inquiries in Bioethics, as well as online in the Huffington Post, NPR, The Conversation, and her blog. Her fat positive radio show, Friend of Marilyn, has been showcasing fat studies scholarship and fat activism since 2011