The San Francisco Well being Division employed a ‘fats positivity’ influencer to seek the advice of on “weight stigma and weight neutrality.”
The brand new weight stigma czar, Virgie Tovar, is a self-described skilled on “anti-weight-based discrimination.”
Tovar, writer of “You Have the Proper to Stay Fats,” boasted about her new function as a marketing consultant on “weight neutrality” on social media on Monday.
“I’m UNBELIEVABLY proud to serve the town I’ve known as house for nearly 20 years on this manner!” she wrote. “This consultancy is an absolute dream come true, and it’s my greatest hope and perception that weight neutrality would be the way forward for public well being,” Virgie Tovar mentioned.
Virgie Tovar’s website describes her as a “plus-size Latina writer, lecturer, and main skilled on weight-based discrimination and physique positivity with over a decade of expertise.”
“In 2011, Tovar accomplished a Grasp’s diploma centered on the research of how weight-based discrimination impacted lifelong gender trajectories in girls of coloration. After constructing an educational basis on the intersections of physique dimension, race and gender, Tovar left academia in pursuit of making options for and dealing intently with people impacted by weight bias,” her web site says.
“Tovar has been named one of many 50 most influential feminists by Bitch Journal. She has acquired three San Francisco Arts Fee Particular person Artist Commissions, the Encourage Award from Venture HEAL, in addition to Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism,” her web site mentioned.
San Francisco simply appointed Virgie Tovar as their Weight Stigma Czar pic.twitter.com/C6BPRC9xLe
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