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ABSTRACT
Fat pedagogy responds to the need for educational interventions to reduce weight-based oppression. Given the growth in fat studies–related courses, a need exists to identify best practices that improve the experiences of fat students, change the discourse around body weight, shape, and size, and challenge the social hierarchies and structures of dominance that perpetuate weight bias in educational contexts. The articles in this special issue, authored by an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars, describe their efforts to do so in both traditional and nontraditional educational spaces. The authors hope that the writings will inspire readers to develop, implement, and research fat pedagogy in their own educational settings.
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Erin Cameron
Erin Cameron is a faculty member at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. She is the co-editor of the award winning book The Fat Pedagogy Reader (2016).
Patti Lou Watkins
Patti Lou Watkins earned her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at Virginia Tech. She is currently a faculty member at Oregon State University where she teaches Fat Studies, with her research focusing on fat pedagogy and Health At Every Size interventions.