ABSTRACT
‘The Sisterhood of the underpants’ is a family group of six Samoan women. They all sat eating in a cafe discussing why we don’t publicly talk about ‘obesity’. One woman responded “why would we bother? That’s what white people do plus we already, are, the poster girls for it”. In this chapter, the aim is to be ‘bothered’ by speaking back, using critical autoethnography and the Va’ (Samoan Indigenous Reference (SIR) for the spaces in-between) to the aversion of the word ‘obesity’.
