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Diet culture and Fatphobia are rooted in white supremacy

Title (Dublin Core)

Diet culture and Fatphobia are rooted in white supremacy

Description (Dublin Core)

It's not a topic people want to talk about, and most people do not even know the history behind diet culture and fatphobia in the United States. Food is a powerful tool that has been used to convey morality and racial supremacy to Americans for more than a century. As Americans have been in lockdown since March, terms like "quarantine-15" and "the covid-19," have become common phrases to shame weight gain due to anxiety, disrupted eating habits, and food scarcity. The current protests and push for the end of racism has many anti-diet culture dieticians and nutritionists speaking up about not only the ugly history of diet culture and fatphobia but the current situation of fat-shaming people for gaining weight during a global pandemic. This meme shared publicly through an Instagram story is one such attempt by nutrition professionals to call attention to the issue of racism, diet culture, and fatphobia. Contributed by Stephanie Berry, a curatorial intern for Arizona State University, HST580.

Date (Dublin Core)

June 7, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Patrilie Hernandez and Sam Abbot

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Stephanie Berry

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Instagram Story Screenshot

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Conflict
English Social Issues
English Health & Wellness

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

diet-culture
fatphobia
anti-racism
#foodways

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

#foodways
diet-culture
food-culture
fatphobia
anti-racism

Collection (Dublin Core)

Foodways
Social Justice

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Tracking For Sanity
HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

06/13/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

06/20/2020
06/28/2020
11/13/2020
08/02/2022
10/13/2024

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on June 13, 2020 by Stephanie Berry using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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