NAAFA Opposes Racism

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The NAAFA Board of Directors has committed to anti-racism and anti-oppression work. You cannot fight against the oppression of one group of marginalized people and ignore the oppression of others.

We, as a Board of Directors, are moving beyond our statement of anti-racism and taking action.
Action 1: The entire Board of Directors will be participating in anti-oppression training.
Action 2: The Fat Community Project Fund mini-grant program includes grants for anti-oppression work/training in and beyond fat community.

Grant Category: Solidarity with Other Anti-Oppression Causes
This category supports intersectional activism by providing resources to assist fat individuals or groups in creating or attending activities that work toward ending the oppression of other marginalized groups.

Examples: planning an accessible movie screening of Crip Camp, organizing a group to attend a Black Lives Matter rally, building a float for a Pride parade.

Action 3: We will be featuring anti-racist resources in our monthly NAAFA Newsletter and on our naafa.org website as part of our goal of education.

Action 4: We will continue to conduct webinars featuring BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) and LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual +) presenters. To find out more about our webinar series, go to https://naafa.org/webinars

I know that as we work on dismantling racism in ourselves and our organization it will lead to even more concrete action. This is important and necessary work that we as an organization are committed to do. We ask all of you to pledge to fight systemic racism and oppression in all its forms: in your life, in your community and in our country by learning more about racism and oppression and taking action.

One action you can take right now is in supporting this work through giving. You can designate any donation to a specific program area to further the goals of anti-oppression work. Go to https://naafa.org/joindonate and click on the "Main Giving Form" link. Select the Fat Community Project Fund to allow us to give more mini-grants to those seeking assistance in a community project. Select the Public Education Fund to donate to allow us to give stipends to presenters and to pay for transcription services to make transcripts available to hearing impaired people. All donations are tax-deductible and greatly appreciated.

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