Hello,
Recently a friend introduced me to their struggles with eating disorders and i wanted to inform myself so i wouldnt have to ask them everything since its quite a heavy topic for them. Also, i would like to introduce the people around me to this topic as well, especially in collective spaces where this is quite unheard of. I find this weird, especially because eating disorders affect so many people and so little places have this as an open conversation.

Because of this, i was wondering if any of you knows of zines, websites, articles or book that talk about this topic and are good to open the conversation in collective spaces. Any help is appreciated!

Thanks!

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anon (not verified) Thu, 11/21/2024 - 11:04

Kind of interested too, never seen anything around this, i don't think. There is stuff more vaguely around mental health like Class Struggle and Mental Health (didn't actually read, can't speak on content) and other stuff in this vein that does the rounds.
RE your friend, idk, but from my own experience introducing reading around eating disorders and diet and so on tends to reinforce these behaviours more than anything (for a personal example, i even had to stop reading and writing about hunger strikes because of this) so i'd be carefull, as it's often already a kind of obsessive-ish behaviour as well as you know an expression of 'control'/'coping'.

anon (not verified) Sun, 12/08/2024 - 13:07

I am a person who has been struggling with eating disorders since a teenager. Indeed, there are no analyses from an anarchist perspective, none that I have yet to see myself. It's a topic I would like to contribute if I had the chance.

anon (not verified) Mon, 10/06/2025 - 14:15

Sorry to revive an old thread and OP might be gone, I just remember liking it and finding some of the theoretical frameworks helpful/more fitting as someone who has on-and-off struggles with EDs back when it just got published, albeit with a grain of salt.
'Disorderly Conduct: Veganism, Eating Disorders, and Captivity' is what it's called.

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