DEI doctor — not a real doctor; the Jill Biden kind, but more diverse — and self-appointed representative of the indigenous peoples of New Zealand, Ash Gillon, is “pushing the boundaries of fat studies and kaupapa Māori research.”
Her thesis explores “systems of oppression and truth” in the context of fat indigenous people and the “intersecting oppressions” they are forced to navigate by the white man.
Via Te Ao News (emphasis added):
In a confronting research thesis, Dr Ash Gillon prompts people to think and talk about fat bodies differently, through the lens of Hine-nui-te-pō.
When Dr Ash Gillon (Ngāti Awa, Ngāpuhi, Ngāiterangi) speaks about fatness, it’s never just about the body. It’s about systems of oppression and truth.
Through her PhD thesis at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland, Gillon invites people to think differently – especially about how society treats fat wāhine Māori.
After 15 years of academic study – a BA in Māori Studies and Sociology, a graduate diploma, and postgraduate diploma in Māori Health, and a masters Public Health – Ash has now graduated with her PhD, pushing the boundaries of fat studies and kaupapa Māori research.
Her thesis, grounded entirely in a mātauranga Māori worldview, is a first of its kind: a research journey unapologetically anchored in Māori narratives, values, and resistance.
“Fat Indigenous wāhine are subject to multiple forms of discrimination and intersecting oppressions,” Gillon says.
“Fat wāhine Māori are presented as undeserving, unwell, diseased, undesirable, and unreliable.”
But Gillon flips the script, “We are deserving, well, eased, desirable, reliable.
“The system, as it stands, and as it has been for a long time, perpetuates how [in]access is enabled for some groups and not others through biopower, biopolitics, healthism, racism, sexism and fatism.”
At the heart of her research is the powerful atua Hine-nui-te-pō, whose pūrākau – along with those of Papatūānuku and Hinemoana – help reclaim body sovereignty for Indigenous women.”
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This little ditty comes to mind, an ode to intersectional feminism before intersectional feminism had a name.
In a way, you’ve got to respect feminists' ability to, with no sense of shame or compunction, parlay their personal psychological grievances into lucrative social science careers for themselves, essentially turning the world into their therapist by subjecting it to their ramblings as they publicly try (and fail) to work through their hang-ups — getting paid for it all the while to boot, feeding at the public trough with cushy sinecures at state-run universities.In a similar vein, meet hardcore vaccine evangelist Dr. (not a real doctor) Andrea C. Love, PhD, who made her bones pimping the COVID vaccines with fear porn during the pandemic as a self-described “science communicator.”
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Needless to say, Dr. Andrea (not a real doctor) is a bottomless reservoir of integrity.
Anyway, Dr. Andrea (not a real doctor), presumably because her company is coming out with some new weight loss miracle GLP-1-type injection, recently came out to assure the obese of America that their physical condition is neither their fault nor, therefore, their responsibility.
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Obesity, she explains, is actually caused by “food deserts,” “social determinants of health,” and something called “housing inequity.”
Spoiler: they’re not gonna do that.
— Andrea C. Love, PhD (@dr_andrealove) November 20, 2025
Biggest driver of obesity in the US? Poverty.
RFK Jr won’t address:
Social determinants of health
No universal healthcare
No Federal living wage
Food deserts
Housing inequity
Wealth gap
They also got rid of nutrition education & assistance! https://t.co/NywVMHCK9b
“Housing inequity”!
Dr. (not a real doctor) Andrea cracked the obesity Rosetta Stone!
All those decades wasted exploring diet, movement, sleep, and hormones — only for a social media celebrity doctor (not a real doctor) to uncover the hidden truth.
