Media and Research Roundup - January 2023
Photo of the book, Weightless by Evette Dionne
By Bill and Terri Weitze
CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & 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.
Pic is of Terri and Bill Weitze, a Caucasian couple, both wearing glasses
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.