no. 6, Spring 2022
The Fat Issue
Feature Story
No Health, No Care: Everything You Know
About Fatness Has Always Been Wrong
Marquisele Mercedes
Medical fatphobia isn’t the result of providers not knowing some special cheat codes for working with fat patients. Providers didn’t all miss the day in medical school where students were taught how not to be cruel to fat people. Medical fatphobia is medicine’s status quo.
Conversation Pieces
The Urge to Burn
Ali Thompson
Art & Illustration
Field Notes from a Fatty
Athia Choudhury
Nonfiction
Freedom Song No. 28
Aurielle Marie
Poetry
The Story of Your Body
Caroline Moore
Letter
Belly of the Beast: Two Excerpts
Da’Shaun Harrison
Book Excerpt
We Care a Lot
Fresh Roberson
Nonfiction
Deep Breaths: In the Waiting Room
Katta Spiel
Nonfiction
Public Health’s Self-fulfilling Prophecies
Monica Kriete
Nonfiction
Valuing Fatness: A Fat Studies Reading List
Rachel Fox
Reading List
Three Acts for Cass Elliot
Rachel Wiley
Poetry
Once Upon an Ovary…
Victoria Abraham
Nonfiction
Columns
Naked, and Unashamed
Breai Mason-Campbell
Another Body on Another Slab
Soraya Roberts
Our Bodies, Our George
Sara Benincasa
For Funsies
Weight Loss: A Big Fat Pop Quiz
Michelle Weber
A Visual History of Futility or, Diet Ads of the 20th Century
Pipe Wrench