https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/read daily 1.0 2025-05-05 https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/read/health-equity-capture monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/read/no-health-no-care monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/read/wegovy monthly 0.5 2021-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1624463355560-P2WQN0A4DEUET9W2CFQK/photo-1558379466-bed9e35ee7cb.jpeg Selected Writing - Wegovy Isn’t A “Game Changer”, But An Update. 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Source: Refinery29 https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/read/metaphors monthly 0.5 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1606795369471-NQZY0EAA4CH5KQ017O1A/cover+for+gabby.png Selected Writing - Our Fat Bodies Are Not Your Metaphors A compilation of comments under theshaderoom’s announcement of Gabourey Sidibe’s engagement https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/read/food-deserts monthly 0.5 2021-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1605313200677-UP2FUDE6KY7UP0VTIL3Q/photo-1493407876535-66cff43a0558.jpg Selected Writing - Public Health’s Power-Neutral, Fatphobic Obsession with “Food Deserts” Source: Unsplash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1605313063460-UGY8YXQAWGSEYU8403TD/ginormous.jpg Selected Writing - Public Health’s Power-Neutral, Fatphobic Obsession with “Food Deserts” Part of a food desert “explainer” from the American Heart Association https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/read/we-do-not-deserve-hospitals monthly 0.5 2020-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1603142614754-4ARP8M1OOFJVG2QT7JHO/image.jpeg Selected Writing - We Do Not Deserve Hospitals Source: Unsplash https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/read/the-process-of-discipline monthly 0.5 2020-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1601927077375-A22JYYCC557KA0HG93P9/image.jpeg Selected Writing - “The Process of Discipline”: Diet Culture and HBO’s ‘The Vow’ Cover art to The Vow, a documentary series from HBO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1601926429080-EWFSVTM5COA2WNG1B3PG/image.jpeg Selected Writing - “The Process of Discipline”: Diet Culture and HBO’s ‘The Vow’ “Jane” recounts private reflections from her time in ‘DOS’. (Screengrab, HBO) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1601926545378-0ODZ9EJIWHTE6QFW1DZW/image.jpeg Selected Writing - “The Process of Discipline”: Diet Culture and HBO’s ‘The Vow’ Sylvester Graham and his masturbation-deterring crackers (Source: New England Historical Society) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1601926776939-VNS6X5A28IZ3XBDS0698/image.png Selected Writing - “The Process of Discipline”: Diet Culture and HBO’s ‘The Vow’ https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/read/whiteness-fatphobia-antidiet monthly 0.5 2020-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1600390582483-WGVN2HBQG3ZUKEFEH8I1/image.png Selected Writing - The Unbearable Whiteness and Fatphobia of “Anti-Diet” Dietitians A censored image of an instagram post from a well-known “anti-diet dietitian’s” page. (Cred: Me) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1600390740379-HA6P8SQUBQYWCTHKOLPC/image.jpeg Selected Writing - The Unbearable Whiteness and Fatphobia of “Anti-Diet” Dietitians A collage of instagram posts from various “anti-diet dietitians” (Creator: Me) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1600390991578-7PDR7MA3QK37Q8J7AL9S/image.png Selected Writing - The Unbearable Whiteness and Fatphobia of “Anti-Diet” Dietitians A screenshot I took of recent photos tagged with #normalizenormalbodies. See a pattern? https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/read/the-eugenics-diet monthly 0.5 2020-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1599948821749-LOXT3VX3HH6H2YFQ05OJ/image.jpeg Selected Writing - The Eugenics Diet Can Make You and Your Kids Thinner Eat for your health and the next generation. (Cred: Me) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1599948955802-ANOF08NGYMVXJ5F7EI3M/image.jpeg Selected Writing - The Eugenics Diet Can Make You and Your Kids Thinner Credit: SMBC by Zach Weinersmith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1599949153628-9FNHALEUSLDHUJB9DW1X/image.jpeg Selected Writing - The Eugenics Diet Can Make You and Your Kids Thinner A pro-eugenics chart titled, “The Triangle of Life,” from the Kansas Free Fair, c. 1920. (American Philosophical Society) https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/read/its-not-the-pandemic monthly 0.5 2020-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1599792213249-K21RMSSRHXBL9TCA9VVR/image.jpeg Selected Writing - The Pandemic is Not What’s Keeping My Fat Body at Home Finding sanctuary among the noise. (Created by the wonderful South Carolina-based artist Demetria. @thingsbydemetria on instagram) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1599792783580-ZQS2QF14TV7LNV480WIK/image.png Selected Writing - The Pandemic is Not What’s Keeping My Fat Body at Home “I am a garden.” (@thingsbydemetria on instragram) https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/read/expertise-is-not-social-justice monthly 0.5 2020-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1599793024534-AN6TB1SP3SHRSHYHHFDQ/image.jpeg Selected Writing - Expertise is Not Social Justice: Reflecting on the “Ob*sity Epidemic” Thought Catalog on Unsplash.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1599793205242-UK8EO5TP67PM0BL33E7H/image-asset.jpeg Selected Writing - Expertise is Not Social Justice: Reflecting on the “Ob*sity Epidemic” An image from Atlanta’s “Strong4Life” campaign. https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/read/ban-tear-gas-in-ri monthly 0.5 2020-12-01 https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/listen daily 0.75 2023-06-18 https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/listen/fullbloompod monthly 0.5 2022-05-16 https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/listen/appearance-matters monthly 0.5 2022-05-17 https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/listen/fatdoctorpod monthly 0.5 2022-05-27 https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/listen/foodheaven3 monthly 0.5 2022-05-27 https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/listen/foodheaven2 monthly 0.5 2022-05-27 https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/listen/bestfatlife monthly 0.5 2022-05-17 https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/listen/kimandjohane monthly 0.5 2022-05-17 https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/listen/foodheaven1 monthly 0.5 2022-05-17 https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/about daily 0.75 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/3cdadf2b-ff6a-4a90-ba9f-fd0ebb9187b6/B96A0865-EF9F-4890-AFF8-99102E1291A3.jpeg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/2c78739c-e15c-44af-92cc-ca8a8b678e06/33F8B1D2-CF0A-459E-A709-128E97E42CB0.jpeg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/f349d334-1e18-4352-b158-05ecd7586675/98EB6499-9907-4D52-A55D-53F917453EB4.png About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e72bf4233a7b93508802bbd/1634224745355-RTWETX61J4ZJ93E492SO/New+Headshot+1+copy.jpg About - Mikey Mercedes, Ph.D. (She/They) I am a writer, culture worker, and public scholar from the Bronx, New York. I critically draw on my doctoral training in public health to articulate how race/ism, antiblackness, antifatness, and ableism have shaped health care, research, promotion, and training. Alongside a group of incredible fat activists, I cohosted the podcast Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back, on which we re-answered old advice columns from a “fat liberationist” perspective that realized the multi-faceted span of lived fat experiences. I was a 2024-2025 Emerge Fellow through the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University. Currently, I am a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Francisco. Looking for a primer on antifatness that doesn’t suck? 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