Ditching Weight Stigma and Anti-Fat Bias at School

Learn how anti-fat bias, weight stigma, and fatphobia show up in P-12 educational spaces and how that bias impacts the learners, educators, and communities where it happens. This important book helps educators reflect on these issues and offers concrete solutions and equity fixes.

Cait O'Connor (@JustTeachingELA) is an eighth-grade English/ENL teacher in Larchmont, New York. She is also a middle school American Sign Language Club advisor, mental health peer advocate, and an advocate for LGBTQIA+ youth, size inclusivity, peer-community engagement, and disability justice.

Part 1: Press Play 1. Introduction 2. Facing the Music: Seeing Anti-Fat Bias as a Problem 3. "We've Been Waiting for You": Changing the Built Environment 4. The Health/Phys Ed Trauma is Over (If You Want It): Health, PE, and Anti-Fat Bias Part 2: Hit Pause 5. The Miseducation of Everyone: Weight Stigma across Content Areas 6. Cheeseburgers in Paradise: School Lunch, Food, and Diet Culture 7. School's Out: Fighting Weight Stigma in Extracurricular Activity Part 3: The Remix 8. Workin' 7-3: Anti-Fat Bias and the Teacher Day 9. We're All in This Together: Collaborating for Change