Unlearning Fatphobia: Moving Toward Fat Liberation in Public Health
March 10, 2021
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
Zoom
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Please join Radical Public Health for a panel event critiquing fatphobia in public health and discussing how we can move toward fat liberation.
Panelists will share their experience & knowledge on the
- Historical relationship between weight, health, and medical care
- Fatphobia within academia and public health
- Connections between race, gender, and body size.
Panelists:
Marquisele Mercedes is a writer and doctoral student from the Bronx, New York. As a Presidential Fellow at the Brown University School of Public Health, her doctoral training and interests are at the intersection of fat studies and scholarship on race/ism.
Harriet Brown is a Professor of Magazine, News, & Digital Journalism at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and a sought-after speaker on college campuses around the country. In 2011 she won the University of Iowa’s John F. Murray Prize in Strategic Communications for the Public Good, for her work as an advocate for those with eating disorders.
Monica Kriete is a researcher and writer from central Pennsylvania dedicated to challenging weight stigma in healthcare and public health. Monica completed her MPH at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where her work in social epidemiology and health communication classes focused on reframing weight stigma - not weight - as a public health problem.
Closed captioning will be provided.
Co-sponsored by the UIC Women's Leadership and Resource Center, School of Public Health, and Collaboratory for Health Justice.
Date posted
Mar 3, 2021
Date updated
Mar 3, 2021