Introduction to Blackout PDF

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Introduction to Blackout

- Sarah Hepola • Lines in Dallas, TX • Formerly a freelance journalist in NYC and self-described “functioning alcoholic” - Blackout 2015 • Young woman’s perspective on alcoholism • Highlights the problem of blackout drinking - In a blackout, a person may act and look almost normal, but have no memory of what happened

- You may not realize the person you’re talking to (or even sleeping with) is blacked out • Blackouts trouble the issue of consent • Intersections between eating disorders and addictions

- Women and Alcohol • “Women in America are drinking far more and far more frequently than their mothers or • •

grandmothers did, and the alcohol consumption is killing them in record numbers” Washington Post Drinking and binge-drinking are particularly on the rise among white women and older women In ads for alcoholic drinks “women’s liberation equals heavy drinking”...