Media and Research Roundup: January 2023
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media and Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
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December 2022: With the help of Pamela Mejia, Head of Research and Principal Investigator for the Berkeley Media Studies Group, NAAFA provides a one-year review of fat bias in national news coverage.
December 6, 2022: Evette Dionne's book of essays, Weightless, deals with her life as a fat black woman, changing the conversation about fatness.
December 9, 2022: Quizzify discusses the harm caused by "wellness" programs to employees with eating disorders and how it opens up the employer to liability. However, the article ends with a recommendation of yet another "wellness" program. Huh?
December 14, 2022: Rachel Millner, Psy.D, talks about how the trauma therapy field adds to the traumatization of fat people by adding to weight stigma.
December 17, 2022: Ragen Chastain revisits the myth that fat people cannot be healthy by reviewing the study that the media was relying upon in the latest wave of anti-fat articles.
January 2023: Volume 12 of Fat Studies is now available. The subjects for this issue are Fat Food Justice and Fat Femininities.
January 10, 2023: Content creator and model Remi Bader took Ozempic (semaglutide) for health issues. When she stopped taking the drug, she gained double the weight she had lost.
January 11, 2023: The American Academy of Pediatrics updates their guidelines for treating fat children by recommending surgery and medications for children as young as 12.
