Body Hierarchies, Disability, and the Ongoing Pandemic with Marquisele Mercedes - EFTROU: S3, Ep8
Description
Embodiment for the Rest of Us - Season 3, Episode 8: Marquisele Mercedes
Chavonne (she/her) and Jenn (she/her) interviewed Marquisele Mercedes (she/they) about their embodiment journey.
Marquisele (Mikey) Mercedes (she/they) is a fat liberationist writer, creator, educator, and doctoral student from the Bronx, New York. As a Presidential Fellow at the Brown University School of Public Health, she works at the intersection of critical public health studies, fat studies, and scholarship on race/ism, examining how racism, anti-Blackness, and fatphobia have shaped health care, research, and public health.
Mikey is also a co-host of the podcast Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back, which explores the lived fat experience from diverse vantage points to examine fatphobia in our relationships and culture. Her socials are @marquisele on Twitter, @fatmarquisele on Instagram, and Patreon.com/marquisele on Patreon. Their website is also marquiselemercedes.com
Content Warning: discussion of privilege, discussion of diet culture, discussion of fatphobia, discussion of racism, discussion of mental health, discussion of chronic medical issues, discussion of medical fatphobia
Trigger Warnings:
29:06 : Discussion of fatphobia regarding climate change
45:21 : Discussion of government manipulation of COVID data
47:16 : Discussion of hate of disabled people
1:11:25 : Discussion of Mikey’s history with Lindo Bacon in the first two weeks of March 2022 here, here, here, and here among others (with updates here and here)
The captions for this episode can be found at https://embodimentfortherestofus.com/season-3/season-3-episode-8-marquisele-mercedes/#captions
A few highlights:
6:09 : Mikey shares her understanding of embodiment and her own embodiment journey
26:47 : Mikey discusses how the pandemic has affected their embodiment practices
Links from this episode:
Sherronda Brown Announced as Scalawag Magazine's Editor-in-Chief
Music: “Bees and Bumblebees (Abeilles et Bourdons), Op. 562” by Eugène Dédé through the Creative Commons License
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