Featuring Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant of the Center for Body Trust.

Fatness is an intersectional, social justice issue, and we need to collectively strengthen our analysis around anti-fat bias and size discrimination. As we engage in a deeper, more authentic intersectional analysis, it is critical that size diversity not be lost or made invisible in this conversation.

We have entered the Ozempic era and are at a critical moment in understanding that the answer to anti-fat bias is not a potentially harmful drug to make people less fat. The answer is the dismantling of oppressive systems (cis-heternormative patriarchy, white supremacy, and extractive capitalism) that weaponize anti-fatness. Fat folks are some of the most stigmatized people in most cultures, AND their stigmatization is often legitimized by a wider culture where fat folks symbolize moral failure and are therefore deserving of their ill-treatment.

This interactive workshop seeks to unpack biases around fatness and provide tools to create more welcoming spaces for all bodies. Further, this workshop will contextualize fatness as it intersects with other marginalized identities and the implications for those individuals and communities.

While this may be a space for critical healing and validation for fat folks, this is also a learning space for folks generally who strive to be on the vanguard around social justice issues.