Event Description
Part of the Womens Health Seminar Series by the Women's Health Education Program
Topic
Addressing Weight Stigma in Healthcare
Presented By
Joy Cox, PhD, author of Fat Girls in Black Bodies
Learning Objectives
- Better understand the ways that weight stigma is connected to systems of oppression not limited to racism, ableism, sexism and healthism
- Learn how weight stigma and fatphobia are pervasive and impacts the lives of everyone, including those in smaller bodies
- Identify the ways weight stigma shows up in your lives and practices
- Start the process of unpacking internalized weight bias
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