Experiences of Male Eating Disorder
I wrote a piece this month for the online ED magazine, Mirror-mirror.org. Using some of my qualitative analysis of published stories, written by men who have endured disordered eating, I…
Posts Categorized: Campaigning, Awareness Raising & Media
Prevalence of Male Eating Disorders
Assessing the prevalence of disordered eating in males continues to be a complex puzzle. Below, I try to make sense of what we can learn from the research literature to…
The Fat Male Body in Eating Disorders Research
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to be a binge-eater who is male…and fat. Gone are the days when my bingeing was disguised by the edifices…
Zayn Malik’s ‘Eating Disorder’
It has been a goodly while since I updated my research journal because I’ve been finishing my PhD, which I submitted yesterday (excitingly). This week the media has had a…
Men, gender and misandry: breaching the binary
Tomorrow I’m giving a lecture as part of University of Bradford’s Diversity Festival. This session explores society’s abiding desire for binary genders, the changing nature of 21st century masculinities and…
Binge Eating Disorder Recovery – Food Monitoring
If you’ve read my EDAW posts, you’ll know that I’ve been trying in earnest to begin a recovery programme to free myself from the grip of this set of habits…
Binge Eating Disorder Recovery – a tough week
Beginning to earnestly work on my recovery again has reminded me of a sad but essential fact – working toward recovery is exhausting – and that’s only after four days….
Recovery from Binge Eating Disorder – Yesterday’s Realisation
A long time ago, my therapist asked me if my being vegetarian was more related to my eating disorder than it was to a conscious lifestyle decision around the avoidance…
Millstone
‘Millstone’ is the new documentary by Men Get Eating Disorders Too* and director Florence Pellanci. It tells the stories of men who speak about their experiences from illness to recovery including…
Follow my research on Twitter
I’m now on Twitter. Follow me to see the results of my research, how I’m sharing this & the male eating disorders work that I’m involved in.
Bigorexia hits the news
Bigorexia is the nifty media-friendly soundbite term that doesn’t truly do justice to what men experience when they go through this debilitating condition currently known as muscle dysmorphia. Me-oh-my –…