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Basket Case

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It's a very ritualized, precious routine

DEC 3, 202432 MIN
Basket Case

It's a very ritualized, precious routine

DEC 3, 202432 MIN

Description

For Maryam, anorexia was a way to disappear. But outside the institutions meant to cure eating disorders, she learns to resist the binary of recovery or death.  

This episode was produced by Maryam Gunja and Phoebe Unter. 

And informed by…

Studying Hunger Journals by Bernadette Mayer

Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire by Janam Mukherjee

Saving our own lives: a liberatory practice of harm reduction by Shira Hassan 

Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body by Susan Bordo

We need to reject the false narratives around anorexia by Katy Waldman

Strangers Among Us by Rachel Aviv

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.