Event Details:
Anti-fatness has long shaped our conceptions of health and beauty, drawing on the history of race and gender bias to elevate some bodies and punish others. But how is fatphobia changing—or staying the same—in light of new weight loss technologies, including GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic?
Speakers Include:
Virgie Tovar is a plus-size Latina author, lecturer, and leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity. After building an academic foundation at the intersections of body size, race, and gender, Tovar went on to write You Have the Right to Remain Fat (2018), The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color (2020), The Body Positive Journal (2022) and the Substack vertical VOLUMINATI.
Jessica DeFino is an award-winning beauty reporter whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Vice, and more. She writes the newsletter The Review of Beauty and has been called "the woman the beauty industry fears" by the Sunday Herald.
Moderated by Moira Donegan, Clayman Institute for Gender Research writer in residence.