Marquisele (Mikey) Mercedes is a writer, creator, educator, and doctoral student from the Bronx, New York. As a Presidential Fellow at the Brown University School of Public Health, she is broadly interested in how racism, anti-Blackness, and fatphobia have shaped health care, research, promotion, and training. Alongside a group of incredible fat activists, Marquisele is also a host of the podcast Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back. She is often quoted in media outlets like Gizmodo, the Washington Post, and Popular Science for her expertise and speaks regularly about anti-fatness on panels at conferences, university groups, and community-serving organizations. Most recently, she authored the lead piece for Pipe Wrench Magazine's Fat Issue: a critical dive into the true realities of medical and societal fatphobia. 

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Marquisele (Mikey) Mercedes

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Caleb Luna is an award-winning educator and scholar who recently their Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. They are the bestselling author of REVENGE BODY (Nomadic Press, 2022) and co-host of the podcast Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back. Publishing, performing and curating across genre and medium, Caleb's cultural work reads, responds to and challenges tropes and discourses regarding race, size, sexuality and disability in media and culture. You can follow Caleb on Instagram and Twitter at @dr_chairbreaker, or get in touch with them at caleb-luna.com.

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