This three-part discussion-based workshop series invites participants to consider what creating an equitable space for all bodies, especially fat bodies, looks like. Participants will learn about anti-fatness, anti-fatness’s connection to other forms of oppression, and how bias, stereotypes, and discrimination of fat people impact one’s self, interpersonal relationships, and systemic access and barriers. Participants are encouraged to attend as many sessions as they wish!
Janae Due (she/her) is the Assistant Director of the Anderson Freeman Resource Center. She supports and creates programming for queer and/or transgender students, students of color, and first-generation college students. Janae values storytelling and personal connection and uses her lived experiences as a fat, queer, disabled, Black woman to help others explore topics around privilege, identity, oppression, and marginalization. She believes that people should strive to be their best selves on their own terms, and helps students work towards reaching their full potential by dismantling toxic perfectionism and promoting radical approaches to wellbeing. She dedicates her time outside of work to providing social justice education to community members and advocating for the creation of community care structures. Janae cares deeply about inclusive and intentional language, asexuality, media representation and popular culture, intersectional feminism, and fat liberation.