4/13/21 NAAFA Webinar Series: Med Bias & Scapegoating of Fat People (Covid-19 Ep 2) w/ Dr. Cat Pausé

In part 2 of the 3-part series package on how the pandemic has impacted fat people, Dr. Caitliń Pausé will talk about how the media and the government have scapegoated fat people in ways that actually have nothing to do with us and how that blame causes so much harm, both now and in ongoing ways.
SPEAKER BIO:
Cat Pausé, PhD is a Fat Studies scholar at Massey University in New Zealand. She is the lead editor of Queering Fat Embodiment (Ashgate) and the International Handbook of Fat Studies (Routledge), and has coordinated three international conferences - Fat Studies: Reflective Intersections (2012), Fat Studies: Identity, Agency, Embodiment (2016), and Fat Studies: Past, Present, Futures (2020). Her research is focused on the effects of fat stigma on health and well-being on fat individuals and how fat activists resist the fatpocalypse. She has called for a new fat ethics, acknowledging the role science has played in the oppression of fat people and ensuring that research around fatness centers fat epistemology. Her work appears in scholarly journals including Fat Studies, Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Feminist Review, and Narrative Inquiries in Bioethics, as well as online in the Huffington Post, NPR, The Conversation, and her blog. Her fat positive radio show, Friend of Marilyn, has been showcasing fat studies scholarship and fat activism since 2011. Find Friend of Marilyn on Apple Podcast. Connect with Cat on Twitter @FOMNZ or on Instagram at fomnz.
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Join Cat Pausé, Sonya Renee Taylor, and several of the contributing authors to launch the International Handbook of Fat Studies.
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Accessibility notes: This webinar is presented in English without captions. A transcript of the webinar will be made available at a later date.
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