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Record W4417438097 · doi:10.32920/eb.v2i2.2367

That Fat Shame Story

2025· article· W4417438097 on OpenAlexaff
Allyson Mitchell

Bibliographic record

VenueExcessive Bodies A Journal of Artistic and Critical Fat Praxis and World Making · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldHealth Professions
TopicObesity and Health Practices
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsShameNarrativeWitnessTransformative learningPower (physics)FeelingCognitive reframingAutoethnographySilenceForegrounding

Abstract

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In "That Snack Shame Story," I revisit a pivotal moment from my early teenage years, when I was placed on a strict diet that deeply impacted my relationship with food and my sense of agency. This graphic memoir uses illustrations and text to convey my experiences as a fat kid, highlighting the feelings of shame and secrecy that surrounded my hidden snack stash. Over four decades later, I can reflect on how this incident, among others, shaped my life and the ways it influenced my understanding of body image and self-worth. The narrative unfolds with a raw honesty, allowing readers to witness the emotional turmoil of being scrutinized for one’s body. As the story progresses, I explore the lasting effects of that moment, revealing how it galvanized my struggles with food and identity. In the final page, I offer a transformative perspective, crafting alternative endings that demonstrate the power of experience, knowledge, and community support. These “do-overs” present a vision of how the story could have unfolded differently, if only I knew then what I know now. By making this moment visible, I aim to loosen the grip of shame and foster connections with others who have faced similar challenges. "That Snack Shame Story" is not just a personal reflection; it serves as a call to reframe conversations about food, weight, and body image. It advocates for a compassionate dialogue that emphasizes love, independence, and understanding for fat kids everywhere. Through this comic, I hope to inspire a sense of solidarity and resilience, inviting readers to embrace their stories and redefine their relationships with food and self.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.019
Threshold uncertainty score0.065

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0110.006
Scholarly communication0.0040.005
Open science0.0010.007
Research integrity0.0040.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0190.005

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.060
GPT teacher head0.431
Teacher spread0.371 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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