The San Francisco Health Department hired a ‘fat positivity’ influencer to consult on “weight stigma and weight neutrality.”
The new weight stigma czar, Virgie Tovar, is a self-described expert on “anti-weight-based discrimination.”
Tovar, author of “You Have the Right to Remain Fat,” boasted about her new role as a consultant on “weight neutrality” on social media on Monday.
“I’m UNBELIEVABLY proud to serve the city I’ve called home for almost 20 years in this way!” she wrote. “This consultancy is an absolute dream come true, and it’s my biggest hope and belief that weight neutrality will be the future of public health,” Virgie Tovar said.
Virgie Tovar’s website describes her as a “plus-size Latina author, lecturer, and leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity with over a decade of experience.”
“In 2011, Tovar completed a Master’s degree focused on the study of how weight-based discrimination impacted lifelong gender trajectories in women of color. After building an academic foundation at the intersections of body size, race and gender, Tovar left academia in pursuit of creating solutions for and working closely with individuals impacted by weight bias,” her website says.
“Tovar has been named one of the 50 most influential feminists by Bitch Magazine. She has received three San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commissions, the Inspire Award from Project HEAL, as well as Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism,” her website said.
San Francisco just appointed Virgie Tovar as their Weight Stigma Czar pic.twitter.com/C6BPRC9xLe
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