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An Interview with Rachel M. Thomas on Weight Bias and Shrink: Story of a Fat Girl

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Rachel M. Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Comics, Graphic Novels, and Sequential Arts at Teesside University; she is also, in her own words, a fat girl. This is not pejorative. In her remarkable graphic memoir Shrink: Story of a Fat Girl (Graphic Mundi, 2024), Thomas not only reveals her history and her struggle with size but also recounts society’s ugliness and the medical profession’s hypocrisies in terms of weight. Comics scholar A. David Lewis had the opportunity to speak with Thomas both about her process and about her research, particularly body neutrality, the potential future of semaglutides, and the comics medium’s versatility for artists’ self-depiction.

Source: Graphic Medicine Review

DOI: 10.7191/gmr.1058

Authors: A. David Lewis, Rachel Thomas

Institutions: Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Teesside University

Language: English

Topic: Comics and Graphic Narratives

Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4409108486

FWCI: 11.94

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Cited by: 1

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