2. Michelle Boo Digital Design
Theme:
Fatphobia (Fear and dislike
of obese people and/or obesity) in
American Society.
3. Michelle Boo Digital Design
Research
• Fat professionals
overperform in all
professional
aspects of their
careers.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21604851.2017.1360671 and http://www.journal.media-
culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/969 and https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8b78/7ac8cc50891e25a7cac820d93219399b849a.pdf
https://safetymanagement.eku.edu/blog/overweight-and-underpaid-weight-
discrimination-at-work/
4. Michelle Boo Digital Design
Research
• The hatred of fatness
by medical
professionals leads to
medical negligence.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23293691.2019.1653577
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/sized-up-fat-feminist-queer-disability
5. Michelle Boo Digital Design
Research
• Fatphobia can behave the
same way as symbolic
racism.
https://psycnet.apa.org/buy/1994-37253-001
https://www.melissatoler.com/blog/we-need-to-put-an-end-
fatphobia-in-woke-spaces
