I have the disease of queerness and also the disease of also the disease o legs oro nailed eg to me as some one who's obsessed with things that are true but do not receive very much media coverage. I mean, the most shocking thing to me about your work is just the sort of the headline finding that it appears that the vast majority of people with eating disorders are fat people. And in addition to different races, socio economic classes and then body size and that i definitely ninogender sexual orientation. It really feels like quite a bit of the ceiling for how we understand eating disorders and who we can recognize them in is really sort of set by our own existing biases about fatness
Fat people have them too! This week, special guest Erin Harrop tells us about one of America's most under-diagnosed and misunderstood problems. Along the way we talk about elbow bumps, Twitter etiquette and '90s sweatpants. Our content warnings are becoming increasingly threatening.
Here's Erin's faculty page and a bunch of her research!
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