While many implicit biases have waned in recent years with more exposure and national discussion, attitudes toward body size haven't. Fatphobia is responsible for significant detrimental impacts, including wage gaps, medical neglect, and poor educational outcomes.
Join Dr. Kate Manne, Associate Professor in the Cornell College of Arts & Sciences and acclaimed author of “Down Girl,” for an urgent and timely conversation about the severity of size discrimination and how to combat it. Drawing on research from her new book, “Unshrinking,” and personal experience, Dr. Manne will describe the ways in which anti-fatness operates — how it leads us to make devastating assumptions about a person’s attractiveness, fortitude, and intellect, as well as how it intersects with other systems of oppression.
