As a medical community, we have鈥攚hether unknowingly or not鈥攁ssisted in normalizing fatphobia by simply instructing patients to "lose weight" without having the complicated conversation of "why?" To understand how fatphobia...
As health care providers, we were probably taught at one point or another during our education that health is the absence of illness. And that a person's weight is a...
Medicine is rooted in systems鈥攂ut that doesn't mean change isn't possible. When you imagine a new and better world, it's important to understand why the current one isn't working. Before...
According to Paulo Freire, "The radical, committed to human liberation, does not become the prisoner of a 'circle of certainty' within which reality is also imprisoned." Radical thinkers tend to...
