Sat November 19, 2016
An Evening with Virgie Tovar - Lose Hate Not Weight: Holiday Preparation Edition
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Join author and activist Virgie Tovar for an empowering discussion of fat discrimination, body image, and diet culture. Get ready to start the holidays with love - by losing the hate, not the weight.
Tovar will present the origins of our diet culture - which began over 200 years ago with the inventor of the graham craker. She'll talk about our cultural obsession with weight loss, and how we can break up with diet culture in order to truly appreciate body diversity.
In Tovar's words, "'fat positive’ is a phrase that celebrates big bodies and sees fatness as part of the beauty of body diversity. Fat positivity is a bold political gesture that recognizes that the fear of weight gain and negative attitudes toward fat people are forms of bigotry that harm all people, regardless of size. Finally, to be fat positive is to activate the right that every person has to a life free from bigotry, shame and discrimination no matter their weight.”
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Tovar will present the origins of our diet culture - which began over 200 years ago with the inventor of the graham craker. She'll talk about our cultural obsession with weight loss, and how we can break up with diet culture in order to truly appreciate body diversity.
In Tovar's words, "'fat positive’ is a phrase that celebrates big bodies and sees fatness as part of the beauty of body diversity. Fat positivity is a bold political gesture that recognizes that the fear of weight gain and negative attitudes toward fat people are forms of bigotry that harm all people, regardless of size. Finally, to be fat positive is to activate the right that every person has to a life free from bigotry, shame and discrimination no matter their weight.”
Join author and activist Virgie Tovar for an empowering discussion of fat discrimination, body image, and diet culture. Get ready to start the holidays with love - by losing the hate, not the weight.
Tovar will present the origins of our diet culture - which began over 200 years ago with the inventor of the graham craker. She'll talk about our cultural obsession with weight loss, and how we can break up with diet culture in order to truly appreciate body diversity.
In Tovar's words, "'fat positive’ is a phrase that celebrates big bodies and sees fatness as part of the beauty of body diversity. Fat positivity is a bold political gesture that recognizes that the fear of weight gain and negative attitudes toward fat people are forms of bigotry that harm all people, regardless of size. Finally, to be fat positive is to activate the right that every person has to a life free from bigotry, shame and discrimination no matter their weight.”
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Tovar will present the origins of our diet culture - which began over 200 years ago with the inventor of the graham craker. She'll talk about our cultural obsession with weight loss, and how we can break up with diet culture in order to truly appreciate body diversity.
In Tovar's words, "'fat positive’ is a phrase that celebrates big bodies and sees fatness as part of the beauty of body diversity. Fat positivity is a bold political gesture that recognizes that the fear of weight gain and negative attitudes toward fat people are forms of bigotry that harm all people, regardless of size. Finally, to be fat positive is to activate the right that every person has to a life free from bigotry, shame and discrimination no matter their weight.”
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