Thin supremacy — why the question “how would you treat me if I was thin?” doesn’t take Fat Advocacy far enough

Lucy Aphramor
6 min readApr 12, 2020
Photo from Unsplash Image of medic treating patient with second medic observing

For anyone who feels frequently seen as ‘less-than’ and who finds themselves on the receiving end of a (less than) therapeutic encounter, sometimes the goal is just to get through it. As a bonus, maybe we might actually get some sort of help.

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Lucy Aphramor

Lucy Aphramor is a radical dietitian and performance poet. They are Associate Professor of Gender, Power, and The Right to Food at CAWR, Coventry University UK.