{"id":1409388,"date":"2022-03-30T08:29:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T12:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1409388"},"modified":"2022-03-30T08:29:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T12:29:46","slug":"prominent-fat-studies-activist-scholar-dies-suddenly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prominent-fat-studies-activist-scholar-dies-suddenly\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent \u201cFat Studies\u201d Activist-Scholar Dies Suddenly"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprominent-fat-studies-activist-scholar-dies-suddenly%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1409388&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>A prominent fat studies scholar and campaigner for obesity suddenly died in her sleep last week. Caitlin &#8220;Cat&#8221; Paus\u00e9, a 42-year-old activist academic from Texas and a lecturer at Massey University in New Zealand, frequently made appearances on television and was well-known for her scholarship on fat studies.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>She was most recently featured as the organizer of the 2020 Fat Studies New Zealand Conference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bekDq_Ebi2I\">infiltrated by conservative YouTube host Steven Crowder<\/a>, who wore a fat suit and prosthetics to present himself as a heavy-set woman and speaker.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><figcaption>YouTube host Steven Crowder recently posted video where he infiltrated Cat Paus\u00e9\u2019s fat studies conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>Paus\u00e9\u2019s cause of death has not been made public but New Zealand Labour MP Deborah Russell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeeFaerie\/status\/1507560217449418755\">announced on Twitter<\/a> that her friend had died suddenly in her sleep on March 25. Russell did not respond when asked if foul play was suspected given the surprise death. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>Paus\u00e9\u2019s academic writings and activism frequently centered around trying to disprove the link between obesity and health. She died at her home in Palmerston North, New Zealand.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2212420920315235\">Paus\u00e9 co-authored an academic article<\/a> in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction about how obesity had wrongly become more stigmatized because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/need-extra-precautions\/people-with-medical-conditions.html\">risk of severe illness from COVID-19 increases sharply with higher BMI<\/a>\u201d in its list of coronavirus co-morbidities.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/30082944\/vq0-l3XXY1GWtWbe5rW6S1-wZOcyT8GMBIfi5CnIiFqaLMNBoV2tz4Wzob3IYi2xqqtqxgh2iuQnUpu6eK8lns3iqEAgkMy5cXFqAHVAVoCV-WstWJvxM1XG-qjtLBh4yMBOKE0\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>American fat studies activist-scholar Caitlin \u2018Cat\u2019 Paus\u00e9 suddenly died on March 25 for reasons not publicly known<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>Paus\u00e9 was also vocal in her views as an intersectional feminist and leftist activist. Her Twitter account features a banner of Adolph Hitler getting punched and her bio reads in part, \u201cGlorifying obesity since &#8217;09. Tearing down white supremacy [with] my fat fingers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if Massey University is still proceeding with its annual Fat Studies New Zealand conference in July given the death of the event\u2019s lead organizer. The conference has not publicly commented on Paus\u00e9\u2019s death as of the publication of this report.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\"><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent fat studies scholar and campaigner for obesity suddenly died in her sleep last week. 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