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Social Justice Week 2019: Keynote Session

Elevating Silenced Voices: Fat is a Social Justice Issue, Too

Elevating Silenced Voices: Fat is a Social Justice Issue, Too
Laurie Cooper Stoll, Associate Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the UWL Institute for Social Justice

Empirical evidence continues to show that like other historically marginalized groups, fat people experience discrimination in employment, education, the media, politics, interpersonal relationships, and especially healthcare. Yet, despite the fact that fatphobia in the U.S. has always been intimately connected to other systems of oppression like sexism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and classism, those of us who do social justice work so often exclude it from our research and our activism. We fail to acknowledge that fat is a social justice issue, too.  In this presentation, I will provide a brief history of the ways fat has been pathologized and medicalized in the U.S.  I will then discuss some of the ways fat is connected with gender, race, and class in particular. Finally, I will offer some strategies for engaging in fat activism.

 

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When

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  • 7:30 to 9 p.m. Monday, April 1, 2019

Where

Hesprich Auditorium 260 Graff Main Hall

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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Hesprich Auditorium 260 Graff Main Hall

Contact

For questions about this event or to request disability accommodations , contact Kate Parker at 608.785.8304 or kparker@uwlax.edu.

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