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Media and Research Roundup - April 2024
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
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Media and Research Roundup - March 2024
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Media and Research Roundup - February 2024
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
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Media and Research Roundup - January 2024
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
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Media and Research Roundup - December 2023
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
For the latest information and research on fatness, check out the Media & Research Roundup.
Media and Research Roundup - November 2023
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
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Media and Research Roundup - October 2023
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
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Media and Research Roundup - September 2023
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
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Media and Research Roundup - August 2023
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
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Media and Research Roundup - July 2023
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
For the latest information and research on fatness, check out the Media & Research Roundup.
Media and Research Roundup - June 2023
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
For the latest information and research on fatness, check out the Media & Research Roundup.
Media and Research Roundup - May 2023
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
For the latest information and research on fatness, check out the Media & Research Roundup.
Media and Research Roundup - April 2023
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
For the latest information and research on fatness, check out the Media & Research Roundup.
Media and Research Roundup - March 2023
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
For the latest information and research on fatness, check out the Media & Research Roundup.
Media and Research Roundup - February 2023
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
For the latest information and research on fatness, check out the Media & Research Roundup.
Media and Research Roundup - January 2023
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
For the latest information and research on fatness, check out the Media & Research Roundup.
Media and Research Roundup - December 2022
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
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Media and Research Roundup - November 2022
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
For the latest information and research on fatness, check out the Media & Research Roundup. This issue features: NAAFA's Chair, Tigress Osborn, responds to Kanye West's incorrect and anti-fat comments about Lizzo's weight; Was COVID's severity due to fat being a risk factor or was it poor medical treatment of fat folx?; Coverage of a fat-positive summer camp experience called Camp Roundup; and more!
Media and Research Roundup - October 2022
Content Warning: Some references to fat shaming in medical offices and discussion of weight loss drugs
For the latest information and research on fatness, check out the Media & Research Roundup. This issue features:
NAAFA Chronicles 79: March 1987
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history. In the March 1987 issue you will find: a prominent health writer taking a stand against dieting, activism letter writing campaign, an update on the 1987 Convention planning, and an invitation to volunteer with NAAFA.