The coronavirus pandemic has brought into stark focus the long battle between the medical establishment and the fat acceptance movement.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said people who are merely overweight, not just the obese, may be at high risk of a serious case of COVID-19.
Tell me, she said, about when you first became aware of the coronavirus and when you started thinking about what it meant to you as a fat person. “I started to think almost immediately about what it would look like for me as a fat Black person,” said panelist Da’Shaun L. Harrison, whose exploration of race and weight, “The Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness,” will be published in August.
The 24-year-old showed up in an ambulance at an Atlanta emergency room in the heart of the pandemic: a fat, black nonbinary person who uses the pronouns “they” and “them,” with a cough and chest pains, who hadn’t slept and had trouble breathing.Harrison had just been lifted out of the ambulance. They were lying on a stretcher in the early morning darkness, terrified they had COVID-19 and could die, fearful of what would happen to them once inside the hospital walls. A male nurse walked up.
Solovay is a pioneer in fat activism and the law, although she stopped working after becoming disabled. She founded the, posted in June, is threaded through with anti-discrimination language.
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