Grieving a Fatphobic World

NOTE: This event prioritizes folks who identify as fat. This discussion uses a fat-positive lens. Fat-positive allies may join, but please be aware that this space is not intended to educate straight-sized (non-fat) folks.

This is a space for fat folks to grieve the devastation of systemic fatphobia in our individual stories and the collective. Many cultures train us to hate the fat body before we can even speak. The world encourages EDs and treats fat people as subhuman.

This facilitated discussion group holds space for the sacred grief and rage of fat bodies reclaiming our space. It honors the roots of fatphobia in racism and ableism and holds space for the intersections of fat identity. There is space here to hold the full spectrum of emotions around living life in a fat body- celebration, reclamation, grief, pain, rage, loathing, and more. It is a container to help us hold…