ABSTRACT
In medical spaces and in scholarship, there are persistent myths about eating disorders being the purview of thin, white, heterosexual, cisgender women; these myths marginalize those who do not fit this narrow description. Thickening this sort of clinical research and practice on eating distress entails moving beyond pathologized symptoms of eating disorders and presumptions around whose eating is disordered, toward a deep engagement with embodied experiences. Rather than slotting individuals into categories of normal or abnormal, we might consider what dis/ordered relations with food mean in relation to myriad bodily expressions.
