Pride Connection Presents – Fat Liberation 101

Episode Notes

This is a training that we did on zoom which resulted in an edited version released on Pride Connection. Pride Connection airs on ACB media 1 on Tuesday night at 10 PM Eastern and will be available on all major podcast catchers shortly after. We discussed fat liberation, myth busting, history and why these things are important to the LGBTQIA+ and disabled communities.
Goals that were covered are:

  • Understand fat liberation as a movement (different than body positivity, self-love, body-neutrality etc.)
  • Reshape assumptions about fatness (myth busters)
  • Draw connections between fat liberation and other movements (intersectional approach for solidarity) – LGBTQ and disability justice movements.
  • Understand that fat oppression is part of Black genocide (Da’Shaun’s thesis) and that anti-Blackness is part of fat oppression.
  • Find ways to apply our conversation to daily work e.g. photos of folks of all sizes on our movement’s websites.
  • Beyond our daily work, how does diet culture and weight stigma show up in relationships with each other?

Here is a list of the resources mentioned in the Fat Lib 101 training:

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