Media & Research Roundup - May 2024
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By Bill and Terri Weitze, with additional reporting by Amanda Cooper
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.
April 10, 2024: The Conversation explains why, while weight stigma is a problem, microaggressions are also harming fat people in their day-to-day lives.
April 21, 2024: Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith is a recently divorced suburban mom who also wrote the New York Times bestseller Fat Talk. She is committed to keeping diet culture out of her home, her Substack newsletter, and her podcast, Burnt Toast.
May 2, 2024: NAAFA’s executive director, Tigress Osborn, is named by Time as one of the top 100 people influencing health. She tells Time about growing up with “fat but fancy” folx, learning about size acceptance in college, and the work she now does for NAAFA.
May 13, 2024: Despite a lot of o-words, this Slate piece does a good job of unpacking one way fatphobia harms thinner people: missed diagnoses for diseases medical professionals assume only affect larger bodies, which is often based on assumptions made around ethnicity and race.
May 13, 2024: NPR takes on a question that has been bouncing around media think pieces lately: Have the new weight-loss drugs changed what it means to be body positive?
May 16, 2024: This writer for beauty magazine Allure encourages us to be skeptical about Oprah Winfrey’s new approach to weight.
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About the Authors
Terri and Bill Weitze have been active within NAAFA for years, and they currently coauthor the Media and Research Roundup in the NAAFA Newsletter. They both live and work in Michigan, and met through a fat-positive bulletin board system before the days of the World Wide Web.