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Media and Research Roundup - November 2022
Media and Research Roundup - November 2022

CONTENT WARNING: Some articles featured in the Media & Research Roundup may refer to stigmatizing events or use stigmatizing language.

For the latest information and research on fatness, check out the Media & Research Roundup. This issue features: NAAFA's Chair, Tigress Osborn, responds to Kanye West's incorrect and anti-fat comments about Lizzo's weight; Was COVID's severity due to fat being a risk factor or was it poor medical treatment of fat folx?; Coverage of a fat-positive summer camp experience called Camp Roundup; and more!

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From the Newsletter, Healthcare, Media, MedicalDarliene Howellmedia, Research, NAAFA, fatshaming, weightstigma, intentionalweightloss, EqualityAtEverySize
NAAFA Chronicles 79: March 1987
NAAFA Chronicles 79: March 1987

The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history. In the March 1987 issue you will find: a prominent health writer taking a stand against dieting, activism letter writing campaign, an update on the 1987 Convention planning, and an invitation to volunteer with NAAFA.

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Activism, Call to Action, Events, From the Newsletter, Healthcare, History, Media, MedicalDarliene HowellFatActivism, MedicalBias, StopDieting, weightstigma, volunteer, volunteerism
Report from the International Weight Stigma Conference
Report from the International Weight Stigma Conference

The annual Weight Stigma Conference (WSC) is an international interdisciplinary gathering of scholars, advocates, community leaders, and others whose work addresses weight stigma (bias against people who are considered “overweight” in their cultures). Founded by British scholar and activist Dr. Angela Meadows in 2013, the conference has been held in Birmingham (UK), Canterbury (UK), Reykjavik (Iceland), Vancouver (Canada), Prague (Czchek Republic), Leeds (UK), and London (UK). Although the conference was founded in 2013, COVID-related delays made this year the 8th offering of the in-person conference, with a commitment to adding more virtual elements in 2023 and a fully hybrid conference in 2024. 2023 and 2024 locations are yet to be announced.

NAAFA has supported the conference as a sponsor for many years. This year, for the first time, we sent an official delegation. Board Chair Tigress Osborn and Board Member-at-Large Elaine Lee traveled to Berlin in July to represent NAAFA at the conference and learn from fat community leaders from sixteen countries.

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Activism, Allyship, Events, Fat Liberation Month, From the Newsletter, Fundraising, Legislation, NAAFA Organization, TravelNAAFA Adminweightstigma, weightstigmaconference, fatliberation, FatLiberationMonth, fatrights