This training explores the intersections of fat liberation, body liberation, and the history of fatphobia, with particular attention to how anti-fatness is entangled with anti-Blackness. Despite decades of clinical attention to eating disorders, the field has often overlooked the cultural, racial, and systemic roots of body oppression and the ways these oppressions directly shape disordered eating. Participants will critically examine historical narratives, structural inequities, and clinical frameworks that perpetuate anti-fatness, while learning strategies for integrating fat liberation and body justice into their professional practice. Through lectures, case review, reflective journaling, and small group discussions, participants will deepen their understanding of systemic oppression as it relates to bodies, and identify concrete practices to move toward equity- and justice-based eating disorder care. [Elective, Eating Disorders Certificate Program]
At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Identify the historical and cultural roots of fatphobia and its entanglement with anti-Blackness
- Recognize how systemic oppression including racism, fatphobia, and diet culture shape eating disorder risk, experience, and treatment
- Reflect on their own socialization and biases around body size and race, and identify how these impact their clinical work
- Develop strategies for affirming, justice-oriented approaches to supporting clients across body size and racial identities
- Apply principles of fat liberation and body liberation to clinical frameworks in eating disorder care