Lucy Aphramor

LUCY APHRAMOR

Lucy Aphramor is a fat- and trans-affirming UK dietitian and EDI consultant whose work engages people in rethinking public health nutrition messages to co-create new, inclusive frameworks that support personal healing as entangled with social change and earthcare. These expanded frameworks recognise the significant metabolic impact that oppression has in so-called diet-related diseases, such as links between racism and hypertension, and are responsive to trauma, poverty, and the need for an anti-colonial approach.

Lucy has worked across the NHS, third sector, academia, and independently, building knowledge from clinical and community dietetic posts, disability advocacy, work with LGBTQ+ groups, and others, plus personal experience of food and body struggles. They are co-founder of the World Critical Dietetics movement with a PhD in Critical Dietetics, and have served on expert groups including the European Federation of the Association of Dietitians Public Health Nutrition Committee and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), They worked as a Size Awareness Consultant for the Welsh Assembly Government and hold the British Dietetic Association Roll of Honour Award.

Lucy acknowledges a foundational flaw in their practice prior to the Black Lives Matter uprisings was the failure to understand coloniality as an ongoing project. They are committed to repairing this, including by acknowledging their intellectual indebtedness to Black and Fat scholarship. Lucy’s passion for, and commitment to, liberatory pedagogy, health justice, and many ways of knowing are reflected in their practice and embodied in their social action theatre as The Naked Dietitian.