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(Un)Doing Diabetes Representation: What the media gets wrong (and what we can do about it)
Diabetes on TV and in movies is rarely anything close to accurate. Turns out, those media misconceptions can be real-life harmful. This week, Stacey is joined by Dr. Heather Walker, the co-author of (Un)Doing Diabetes: Representation, Disability, Culture and Dr. Phyllisa Deroze, who contributed a chapter called "Laughing to Keep From Dying: Black Americans with Diabetes in Sitcoms and Comedies.
Dr. Deroze & Dr. Walker both live with type 1 and both have difficult diagnosis stories that influenced their experiences with diabetes going forward.
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