Your Queer Fat Auntie Experiencing Cancer
Some reflections. During April I was honored to be invited to share in online community conversations around weight stigma with a wonderful group of people who are conscious, aware, and actively learning. Yes, I talk and teach on the subject, I am a fat activist and this stuff matters, and I am first and foremost…
While creating the online course “What are we going to do about the weight?” Weight Stigma in Health Care, it was important to me to provide a list of resources and information. Here is a non-exhaustive list of books, online resources, and podcasts that I may well edit and add to as time goes on….
With the marginalizations that intersect in my life I’ve learned how to self-advocate, even demand in medical settings. I’ve often spoken what others do not, cannot. I’m heard because of a variety of factors, privilege being high on the list.
“I don’t see color” is literally ERASURE. It is also a lie. Think about it, all those nice people who use this line to defend their non-racist standing and how open and accepting they are of “all people” that they will literally claim to ”not see color” I call bullshit. Humans are literally hardwired to…
I don’t get a pass. As a white woman who was married to and had a child with a black man MY JOB is to DO MY OWN anti-racism work. Yes, I am Mom to an amazing mixed-race daughter who identifies as black. She is incredible, with a developed sense of social justice. That does…