Jess Hagemann is an author, biographer, ghostwriter, editor, and journalist residing in Austin, Texas. We spoke about her new book, Headcheese, and the condition afflicting her many characters: amputation related desires either fetishized or as a result of body integrity identity disorder (BIID). She talks about researching and writing her characters and what she learned in the process.

Notes:

I think Rule 34 is the fetish rule I mentioned, but there is no good source on this!

Chris Panatier (Headcheese illustrator mentioned in the interview)

The study I mentioned in my interview about increased weight bias (notably “implicit attitudes toward overweight individuals even showed a slight shift toward increased bias over time”) and a Washington Post article that mentions the study