Carrying Your Own Weight: The Fat Liberation Movement and How You Can Join
This webinar begins where part one (Fat Bias & Fat Shame: Why they’re Both a BIG Deal!) ended, with the fat liberation movement. Those unable to join us for that January 10, 2025 webinar offering will, first, receive a very brief review of the major points shared. Next in this webinar, attendees can expect a deeper dive into the history and current examples of increasing ways the fat liberation movement continues to expand beyond fat visibility, acceptance and positivity to resistance, revolution, and liberation. Please note, though this is a webinar, attendees will be encouraged to individually reflect on actionable ways they can be a part, in their personal and professional lives, of the ever-expanding and ongoing fat liberation movement. Please come prepared with pen/paper, or whatever means you need, to complete these reflections. Lastly, as with part one, this webinar is also open to all people, regardless of your size!
About the Presenter
Shari L. Robinson, MSW, ACSW
Shari L. Robinson (she/her) is the sole proprietor for The Traveling Diversity Professor which, for nearly three decades, has developed and provided strategic and equity-based knowledge and skill building educational opportunities for non-profit organizations across the United States. With educational training in social work and anthropology, Shari was a professional social worker working, primarily, with older adults which included a private practice before retiring from direct practice. She also has decades of experience in higher education which includes full time and adjunct faculty roles developing and teaching social work and anthropology focused courses on anti-oppressive clinical practices, TBLGQIA+ and older adults. Additionally, she has held positions in faculty development, curriculum design, critical community service-learning, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Inclusive Excellence at universities and colleges across Michigan, Massachusetts and Minnesota where she now resides. In her, spare but rare time, Shari enjoys cooking and eating spicy dishes followed by ice cream, though she often enjoys dessert first. She also enjoys growing plants and vegetables, watching British detective mysteries, reading, traveling, and consuming all things Star Trek and Afro-futurism.