After a vehicle denied admittance citing her size, a plus-size rapper from Detroit sued the ride-share company Lyft.
Dajua Blanding, a body-positive singer also known as Dank Demoss ,’s attorneys filed the lawsuit, alleging that Lyft had violated her rights in a state where body-positive behavior is considered to be protected.
Blanding recorded the affair in which the vehicle refused to provide services, claiming that the vehicle was too little and that her bodyweight had put too much pressure on the tires. He suggested that she purchase a bigger car.
” I can meet in this car”, she is heard saying in the picture.
” Feel me, you didn’t”, the driver said, before saying he would withdraw and deposit the journey.
” I’ve been in vehicles smaller than that”, Blanding told a local Fox online. ” I just want them to know that it hurt my feelings”.
Blanding, who calls herself” PAID PHAT QUEEN” on her Instagram page, content regularly about her weight.
” It’s like my brain don’t realize that I’m this big”, she says in one picture posted earlier this year. ” ]S] o I’ve been feeling like I can do everything”.
In my new book, Fat and Unhappy, I discuss how activists usually promoted by business partners usually co-opt the mistreated language used to describe overweight on the lexicon of interpersonal justice. Many states and cities have begun to consider laws related to one , passed , in New York City in 2023 to consider fat a constitutionally protected course, opening the door to more lawsuits related to Blanding’s. According to the Daily Mail, Michigan was the first position to “ban work weight bias” in 1969.
In December, Jae’lynn Chaney, a “fat independence advocate” whose , business partners , include Walmart and McDonald’s, went viral for demanding jets be redesigned to incorporate larger chairs because “airlines make their goods smaller every time”.
Chaney launched an online , petition , demanding the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) mandate changes” to protect plus-size travelers” which has gathered nearly 40, 000 signatures. In 2021, the FAA , required , flights to reset security recommendations for aircraft pounds to adjust for larger passengers and heavier luggage in the 21st century.
The occurrence of international overweight has more than doubled between 1990 and 2022, according to the World Health Organization, with 2.5 billion people 18 and older considered overweight in 2022. Obesity is a significant risk factor for nearly , every severe disease , and at least  , 13 , various cancers.
