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SUMMARY:Author Series: Shrink: Story of a Fat Girl
DESCRIPTION:Join Countway Library and the MCPHS Center for Health 
 Humanities for an Author Series event with Rachel Thomas\, where she will 
 discuss recent comic\, Shrink\, which seamlessly blends memoir and 
 research\, graphic medicine\, and future directions for her work. Q&A to 
 follow.\n\nBook sales and signing to follow\, provided by 
 Comicopia.\n\nLight refreshments will be provided. \n\n \n\nAbout the 
 Book:\n\nDerided by her high-school peers for being overweight\, Rachel 
 finally found a sense of purpose and belonging in a promising career as an 
 EMT—that is\, until her body got in the way.\n\nShrink is a work of 
 graphic medicine that depicts the emotional and physical realities of 
 inhabiting a large body in a world that is constantly warning about the 
 medical and social dangers of being “too fat.” This smart and candid 
 book challenges the idea that weight loss is the only path for a fat person 
 and encourages the reader to question the prevailing cultural and medical 
 discourse about fat bodies.\n\nSeamlessly weaving the most current research 
 on the fatness debate with her own experiences of living in a fat body\, 
 Thomas lays bare society’s obsession with size and advocates for each of 
 us to push back on body weight bias and determine what’s right for our 
 own health and well-being\, both physical and mental. (From the 
 publisher.)\n\n \n\nAbout the Author: \n\nRachel M. Thomas\, PhD is 
 Assistant Professor of Comics\, Graphic Novels\, and Sequential Arts at 
 Teesside University.\n\nShe is an interdisciplinary artist/researcher whose 
 work blurs the boundaries between traditional media\, technology\, and 
 bio-fabrication.
LOCATION:Countway Floor 1: Room 103\, Harvard Longwood Campus
ORGANIZER;CN="Yasmina Kamal":MAILTO:Yasmina_kamal@hms.harvard.edu
CATEGORIES:Events
CONTACT;CN="Yasmina Kamal":MAILTO:Yasmina_kamal@hms.harvard.edu
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