How anti-fatness is rooted in racial, colonial, gender and food injustice + what we can do to combat it

This virtual session will be facilitated by Asam Ahmad – Food Justice Educator at FoodShare – and in it we aim to help folks recognize the ways that weight stigma and bodily oppression show up in our lives. The webinar, based on FoodShare's learnings from our own work in this area, will focus on tools to use for identifying and combatting weight stigma and fat shaming in everyday life, and practical steps that individuals can take towards body liberation, body reflexivity and fat acceptance.

A few notes:

This event will be webinar-style, so folks will not have cameras on and will not be able to converse with audio, but are encouraged to contribute to the conversation in the chat.

Once registered, you'll be able to access the Zoom info via this page closer to the date of the event. We'll also be sending the Zoom link to all registrants a day or two before the event.

This event has a limited capacity, so please only register if you are able to attend. If you register but can no longer attend, please be sure to cancel your registration to make room for others.

If you have any questions or concerns please email communications@foodshare.net.

About the Facilitator

Photo description: Asam smiles while holding garlic freshly harvested from his garden

Asam grew up in Scarborough in a high-rise, mostly disconnected from the land and knowing very little about how plants are cultivated and our food harvested. This early experience informs all of their food justice work and situates their teaching practice and pedagogy within a critically anti-oppressive, working class and feminist lens. Asam loves to facilitate conversations that dig deep into the roots of food insecurity among communities across Turtle Island, and enjoys nurturing spaces that can hold multiple truths in dialogue with each other. Asam believes in the power of food to speak across all kinds of differences, and in the power of plants in returning us to good relations with the land. In their spare time, you can find Asam biking through the Humber Valley or at a farmer’s market near you.