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BMI Is Bunk, but Fat Women Are Diseased: The Hypocrisy of “The Normal (White) Man”
1. Introduction In 2013, the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to classify obesity as a disease. The decision was controversial. Although the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had labeled obesity a disease back in 1998, the AMA is the most influential medical organization in the U.S. Therefore, many expected that their assignation that obesity is a disease would, well, carry more weight.
Why Does Romance Now Feel Like Work?
Complaints about the current state of dating tend to revolve around the impersonal, gamelike behavior that apps such as Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble encourage. In theory, sifting through hundreds of profiles within minutes is supposed to be a convenient means of finding the perfect partner you may never have bumped into offline—or a lively, empowering way to occasionally dip into the dating pool without making any serious commitment.
Author and scholar to discuss racist roots of ‘obesity epidemic’ at San Diego library
In her 2019 book, “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia,” Sabrina Strings contends with our collective fixation on thinness, tracing its development to race — specifically to anti-Blackness. “Fatphobia is the fear and aversion to fat people, and this really developed in the Western world as a result of the creation of race science. Slavery…really started to take off in the late 14th, early 15th century,” she said in a previous interview with the Union-Tribune.
The Roundup Top Ten for July 14, 2023
; 7/14/2023 Roundup In Post-Soviet Russia, Children Have Been Propaganda Instruments by Clementine Fujimura Russian regimes since the fall of Communism have inherited and created crises of mass orphanage; their policy responses to parentless children have been informed by politics and nationalism at the expense of child welfare. Removal of orphans from Ukraine to Russia is just the latest instance.
The best books that will help you kill your inner fatphobe
A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender—and toward a brighter future—from National Book Award nominee Evette Dionne My body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding against all odds. It is a body that others map their expectations on, but it has never let me down.
How to Have the Fat Talk
What an utter delight it is to have Virginia Sole-Smith back in Culture Study! Two years ago, I asked Virginia to do a Q&A after reading a particularly noxious “health” column in the New York Times. I didn’t know her at all, but after reading her responses (particularly the one about grandparents and diet culture, whew) I knew I wanted to be her friend. Luckily for me, she was about to (mostly) give up freelancing in order to concentrate on her writing her newsletter, and wanted to talk details.
How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes Fat Phobia
Abstract This article describes how size-based health and beauty ideals made their way into the medical field through the eugenics movement of the 19th to 20th centuries and were validated using so-called “standard weight” tables. They became even more mainstream with the 20th-century tool to replace standard weight tables: body mass index (BMI). BMI, then, is a continuation of white supremacist embodiment norms, racializing fat phobia under the guise of clinical authority.
“You Just Need to Lose Weight”
And 19 Other Myths About Fat People Narrated by: Aubrey Gordon Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins 5.0 out of 5 stars 5.0 (4 ratings) 1 title per month from Audible’s entire catalog of best sellers, and new releases. Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. You will get an email reminder before your trial ends. Your Premium Plus plan is $14.95 a month after 30 day trial. Cancel anytime. Buy for $16.80 Publisher's Summary “One of the great thinkers of our generation . . .
Fatphobic (ft. Amber J. Phillips & Da’Shaun L. Harrison)
Episode notes Episode Summary: This week, jh and Tre’vell invite filmmaker Amber J. Phillips, and author Da’Shaun L. Harrison (Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness) to the show for a conversation about fatphobia (read: jh’s fatphobia). Regular listeners may recall jh’s response to an email calling him out for expressing satisfaction that his beard hid his “double chin”. The critique was that “double chin” was code for fat, and that jh’s fatphobia was showing.
Separating Fat from Fiction
The majority of fat people aren’t in danger of dropping dead next year or next decade, says Clara Pritchett ’22. And those who do struggle with health problems need a total overhaul of the healthcare system—one focused on serving their needs instead of cutting them down to size. Overall, Pritchett doesn’t believe the “obesity epidemic” is a thing—rather, issues of weight and diet are one tiny facet of a massive public health crisis.
'Belly of the Beast' and the Things Our Bodies Cannot Hold
“Our bodies, they move, they morph, they shift. We do things with them, we show up with them. They do hold things that they shouldn’t have to hold, that they can’t hold… They have all these assignments, but who are you?” Da’Shaun L. Harrison “Who are you outside of your body?” — This is one of my favorite questions that has ever been asked, and it’s one that Da’Shaun L. Harrison tasks us with unraveling often.
Episode 4: Yes, Black Women Get Eating Disorders Too
This week, we had the pleasure of speaking with Alishia McCollough - a North Carolina based therapist, author, poet, and social justice worker.
Food Psych #272: Rebuilding Body Trust, the Importance of Unlearning, and Why Body Liberation Is for Everyone with Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant — Christy Harrison - Intuitive Eating Dietitian, Anti-Diet Author, & Certified Eating Disorders Specialis
Introduction & Guest Bio: Be Nourished co-founders Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant return to discuss the process of unlearning, including/especially for healthcare providers; wanting body liberation for others while thinking it doesn’t apply to ourselves; how diet culture reinforces perfectionism; how the wellness industry hasn’t actually improved wellness; rebuilding trust in our relationship with food and our bodies; and so much more.
Lizzo’s Body Is Not A Political Battlefront
White women crying in “disappointment” about Lizzo is nothing short of their belief that fat Black women should always tend to their wounds coming to the surface. CW: diet talk By Rasheed Ajamu “Body Positivity” icon Lizzo recently decided to partake in a “JJ Smith’s 10-day smoothie detox” and gave her social media following a glimpse of what that looked like. In response, the internet gave her unwarranted hell.
Food Psych #257: Body Image Beyond Weight, How to Push Back Against Body Ideals, and Unintentional Restriction with Nadia Craddock — Christy Harrison - Intuitive Eating Dietitian, Anti-Diet Author, & Health at Every Size Advocate - Food Psych Programs
Introduction & Guest Bio: Body-image researcher Nadia Craddock joins us to discuss body image beyond body size and weight, her experiences in inpatient eating-disorder treatment, colorism and its harmful effects on body image, how to push back against body ideals, and so much more. Plus, in Ask Food Psych, Christy answers a listener question about how to talk to a doctor who put you on an elimination diet that triggered an eating disorder.
The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity
Black people, and Black women in particular, face considerable health challenges. Compared with their rates in other racial groups, chronic cardiovascular, inflammatory and metabolic risk factors have been found to be elevated in Black women, even after controlling for behaviors such as smoking, physical exercise or dietary variables.
The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity
Prescribing weight loss to black women ignores barriers to their health Black people, and black women in particular, face considerable health challenges. Compared with their rates in other racial groups, chronic cardiovascular, inflammatory and metabolic risk factors have been found to be elevated in black women, even after controlling for behaviors such as smoking, physical exercise or dietary variables. This is a preview. Make a selection below to access this issue.Already have access? Sign in.
No es obesidad; es esclavitud
Opinion El Paso ¿Por qué los afroestadounidenses están tan enfermos? Mi respuesta fue rápida e inequívoca Sabrina Strings / The New York Times jueves, 28 mayo 2020 | 06:00 Nueva York– Hace unos cinco años, me invitaron a participar en una reunión sobre salud en la comunidad afroestadounidense. En ella estuvieron presentes varias figuras importantes de los campos de la salud pública y la economía.
Sabrina Strings: It’s not obesity killing black people. It’s slavery.
(Bebeto Matthews | AP photo) People wait for a distribution of masks and food from the Rev. Al Sharpton in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, after a new state mandate was issued requiring residents to wear face coverings in public due to the COVID-19 coronavirus, Saturday, April 18, 2020. "Inner-city residents must follow this mandate to ensure public health and safety," said Sharpton.
Why the Coronavirus Is Killing African Americans - The New York Times
Opinion|It’s Not Obesity. It’s Slavery. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/opinion/coronavirus-race-obesity.html About five years ago, I was invited to sit in on a meeting about health in the African-American community. Several important figures in the fields of public health and economics were present. A freshly minted Ph.D., I felt strangely like an interloper. I was also the only black person in the room.
American Beauty, Explained | Sabrina Strings
The popularity of the magazine Godey’s Lady’s Book in the nineteenth century was due to more than its display of sumptuous clothing and decadent jewels. Its appeal had a lot to do with its effort to create what the historian Benedict Anderson might describe as an “imagined community” of white middle-class Protestant women. In the midst of the massive social upheaval of the mid-nineteenth century and the redefinition of just who was an “American,” Godey’s Lady’s Book was a guidepost for such women.
Fearing the Black Body
Description Praise Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system.
“She Is Not Acting, She Is”
This essay examines the popular television show RuPaul's Drag Race to reveal the ways drag performance provides an ambivalent, contradictory space for wrestling with contentious issues surrounding cultural identity and authenticity in reality TV. Focusing on the show's controversial season three, the authors demonstrate how drag queens subvert and play with ideas of gender “realness” but find an impasse in open discussions of race.
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