02/22/2023
This article highlights so many great points about biases in treatment. Western counseling approaches predominantly curated by white men do not work the same for all people!
"...sometimes Black women use disordered eating as an 'assimilation strategy.'"
“Safety and survival can only come when we shrink ourselves before people tell us we’re too much...We have to make ourselves literally and figuratively smaller in a room when we’re already hyper visible, in situations where we are already deemed to be a threat.”
Black women in the field are working to disrupt eating disorder stereotypes, which create a vicious cycle that prevents people of color from getting diagnoses and treatment.
