You may have seen this last week on the Fat Joy instagram, but I wanted to share it here in case you didn’t.
After percolating for about a year, I’ve created a writing workshop for fat folks exploring how to find joy in an anti-fat world.
Living as a fat person in today’s world comes with huge challenges. Diet culture and anti-fatness show up in all aspects of our lives, such as lunchrooms, medical appointments, and relationships. Connecting to joy, pleasure, and fat positivity can feel impossible.
In this workshop, we’ll use writing to gently explore some of the harms, biases, and oppressions we’ve experienced while living in a world that marginalizes fat bodies. And then write ourselves deeply into resilience, courage, community, and audacity — claiming and celebrating our fat joy.
This is a workshop designed for people who experience discrimination and barriers due to their size. Acknowledging that no system of labels is going to reflect every person’s experience, this workshop is for people who are mid fat, large fat, and superfat/infinifat — for those of us who frequently face barriers to access healthcare or public seating, experience workplace discrimination, or can only purchase clothing in a plus-size store or online.
These small group workshops are capped at seven people so that we can create that sense of coziness and community. So far, there are three people registered, so there’s room for four more…maybe that’s you!!
Please go to the site to read more about the workshop, and if there’s anyone you know who may be interested, share with them as well.
We’re going to have a joyful and powerful time together.
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