But what about healthism? A Kaupapa Māori kōrero of healthism, fatness, bodies, and hauora

Healthism, like racism and fatism, influences the ways in which we conceptualise bodies and understand and perceive notions and pursuits of health, bodies, and worth. Kaupapa Māori and mātauranga Māori perspectives offer alternative insights from colonial, hegemonic views on health, fatness, and bodies. Neocolonial perspectives often perpetuate restriction, inaccessibility, and structure deservedness. Healthism presents itself in a number of intersecting ways that ultimately structure and assign access, desirability, and palatability to bodies that are deemed worthy and morally good. These social constructions can manifest through the production of particular bodies and a medicalised gaze that reduces explanations to lifestyle choices, morality, and meritocracy. When thinking about this stratification of bodies, inaccessibility is then exacerbated when systems of oppression based on race, ethnicity, and fatness converge. This paper explores healthism and bodies from a Kaupapa Māori perspective utilising the pūrākau of fat wāhine Māori.