Collected Item: “Institutional Fatphobia”
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Institutional Fatphobia
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
social media post
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This post shared publically through Instagram discusses the issues that fat people face when seeing a doctor. This was shared in response to not only the weight bias spurred on by the pandemic but to highlight the institutionalization of fatphobia in the medicine. The media and health experts have been having a field day pointing the finger at obesity for death rates and complications for months. All while toting the advice to lose weight and their preferred diets to do so. Despite the fact diets fail 90% of the time no matter how dedicated the individual or that obesity is not a condition but a symptom of conditions that put people at a higher risk from COVID-19 complications such as other health issues, poverty, access to medical care, access to nutritional foods, access to sick pay and sick leave, and so on.
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#medicalfatphobia, #FoodisLife, #institutionalized, #weightbias, #diet, #HST580, #ASU
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
B. Deutsch
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2020-07-30