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Anti-Fat Bias Is Real

You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon

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Best for: Fat people looking for solidarity and words they can use when faced with anti-fat bias. Thinner people who need to learn some truths. In a nutshell: Writer and podcaster Gordon shared 20 well-researched essays tackling myths related to fatness and anti-fat bias. Worth quoting: “The cultural mandate for fat people to lose weight isn’t about health — it’s about power and privilege.” “Doctors’ prejudices mean they provide fat patients with lesser care, in turn, leading fat patients to less accurate diagnoses and less […]

Anti-Fat Bias Explored

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

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Best for: Everyone, but especially straight-sized individuals, and people who still hold onto ideas about weight as a proxy for health. In a nutshell: CN: Diets and all things weight related. Author Gordon, who describes herself as very fat, explores all the ways in which society fails fat people, offering suggestions for body justice. Worth quoting: So much, but I’ll try to limit it… “Despite a mountain of evidence linking physical and mental health to social discrimination, the conversation about fat and health stubbornly refuses […]



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