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 professional on “anti-weight-based discrimination.”
Tovar, creator of “You Have the Proper to Stay Fats,” boasted about her new position as a advisor on “weight neutrality” on social media on Monday.
“I’m UNBELIEVABLY proud to serve town I’ve known as residence for nearly 20 years on this method!” 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 stated.
Virgie Tovar’s website describes her as a “plus-size Latina creator, lecturer, and main professional on weight-based discrimination and physique positivity with over a decade of expertise.”
“In 2011, Tovar accomplished a Grasp’s diploma targeted on the research of how weight-based discrimination impacted lifelong gender trajectories in girls of coloration. After constructing a tutorial basis on the intersections of physique dimension, race and gender, Tovar left academia in pursuit of making options for and dealing carefully 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 Undertaking HEAL, in addition to Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism,” her web site stated.
San Francisco simply appointed Virgie Tovar as their Weight Stigma Czar pic.twitter.com/C6BPRC9xLe
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