Intersectional Perspectives on Fatness
Intersectional Perspectives on Fatness
MOVING BEYOND BODY POSITIVITY TOWARD LIBERATION
MOVING BEYOND BODY POSITIVITY TOWARD LIBERATION
Fatness is an intersectional, social justice issue, and we all need to strengthen our analysis around anti-fat bias and size discrimination.
ONLINE TRAINING > Thursday, August 29, 2024
12:00- 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time)
RECORDING WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE SOON!
Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant, with Sirius Bonner of Intersect NW, will facilitate this online workshop 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.
About The Facilitators
Sirius Bonner
Sirius is a passionate social justice leader and a noted presenter and facilitator who co-facilitates the Body Trust Certification Program with Dana and Hilary. Sirius’ work focuses on the intersections between social justice issues such as racial oppression, reproductive justice, queer rights, health equity, anti-fat bias, educational equity, poverty, sexism, and liberation; recognizing that as we begin to untangle one issue, we can untangle them all. With a background in higher education and nonprofits, she is currently an executive in healthcare where she leads equity and inclusion efforts.
Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC
Hilary has supported people who are healing from disordered eating, body shame, and the impact of weight bias and other traumas. She is the co-founder of Center for Body Trust, where her work as a therapist, educator, speaker, and writer, has been a study of what interrupts our sense of wholeness and how we can return to ourselves in a culture that profits from fragmentation. She has additional training in workshop facilitation, mind-body coaching, and radical relating. She is a sought-after speaker on topics such as weight-inclusive approaches, weight bias, and the intersections of activism and the helping professions. She offers consultation and training for organizations and professionals.
Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD
