On March 30 at 5 PM via Zoom, Dr. Alison Reiheld from Southern Illinois University--Edwardsville will present a lecture on anti-fat bias entitled "Fat Chance: How Body Size Judgments, Daily Life, and Stigma = A Hot Mess."
This event is part of the Phil/Rels Conversations series hosted by the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.
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Some folks say that anti-fat bias is the last publicly acceptable form of prejudice. In fact, it interacts in some really nasty ways with other forms of prejudice and has many mechanisms. We'll talk about the way that discussions of unruly bodies, fat and otherwise, have been used to justify lethal outcomes of police violence as in the case of Eric Garner. We'll also talk briefly about the way that anti-fat bias shows up in health care, and the way that anti-fat micro-aggressions target both fat folks and not-yet-fat folks, as a kind of disciplinary mechanism to enforce shared ideas about what rule and unruly bodies are like. Let's do philosophy together!
About the speaker
Alison Reiheld, Ph.D. Philosophy, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, where she also previously served as Director of Women's Studies. Dr. Reiheld works on medical ethics and philosophy of medicine, as well as feminist philosophy, philosophy of memory, and philosophy of disability. Recent work includes interviews with transgender folks about their experiences seeking health care. She writes for both an academic audience and the general public. You can find her blogs at SIUE Women's Studies Blog and at IJFAB Blog.