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Weight stigma is weight-based discrimination arising as a result of dominant cultural attitudes and beliefs held about individuals or groups of people based on their weight, shape or size.
Researchers have offered definitions such as:
“The social devaluation and denigration of people perceived to carry excess weight, [which] leads to prejudice, negative stereotyping and discrimination toward those people.The judgment of a person’s character, work ethics, and personality based on weight. Any actions that prejudice and discriminate because of weight, and leads to inequities in the employment, health-care, and educational settings. Can be communicated both directly and overtly and/or indirectly and subtle (see microaggressions). ” (Tomiyama 2014)
“A broad range of experiences from minor, everyday instances of differential treatment, or ‘microaggressions’ (e.g., being treated with less respect than others in subtle ways), to being treated unjustly in specific contexts (e.g., being denied employment).” (Pearl 2018)
The impacts of weight stigma are significant, and intersecting due to parallels with other forms of discrimination (eg. racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and more). Effects and impacts of weight stigma can include poor and inequitable healthcare, lack of and/or stereotypical representation in public or media spaces, being the object of ridicule, bullying, judgement and assumptions based purely on appearance, fewer opportunities is education and workplaces & difficulty finding physical spaces where bodies that do not fit the dominant form of smaller and able-bodied. Weight stigma is a form of discrimination, and we all can play a role in both perpetuating harm, or contributing to greater equity. Learning more about both the overt and subtle ways weight stigma shows up in our lives can equip us with the insight and awareness we need to make important changes. Please join us this week as we share voices of lived experience, research & literature, and practical ways we can make a difference. **continued in comments**** #WSAW2020 #EndWeightStigma #HAESAustralia](https://scontent-lax3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/120197217_3616353738375163_8534462350869906062_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=2&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=hHJKRS29SgMAX_dFqk0&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.cdninstagram.com&oh=d38edd7f21aa229e8aa6755ff1dc9a81&oe=5FC0E28B)
