We are joined by Andy Duran, the founder of ChubRollz, a local Bay Area community for fat/plus-size skaters, along with professors Dr. Luciana Zuest and Dr. Sae-Mi Lee for an important conversation about weight stigma in sports and fitness. Our guests will be speaking to the meaning of and need for inclusivity, and their roles as scholars and activists in promoting body diversity in a world obsessed with thinness.

Thank you so much for listening in on this important two-part conversation. Below, I have listed some easy action steps -

Check in with our featured guests -

Andy-

Andy founded a San Francisco based body inclusive Skating club, ChubRollz: https://linktr.ee/chubrollz?fbclid=IwAR2iD0sllRAgur-2hX5cOgJRcn70SyOcUW9maWTdeO4E8loZgAdMl-TG1Ow - please edit if inaccurate

Chub Rollz Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/chubrollz/

Dr. Luciana Zuest and Dr. Sae-Mi Le-

Their published works can be found on our research gate profiles:

Luciana: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luciana-Zuest

Sae-Mi: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Saemi-Lee

On instagram, you can find Golden Eagle Physical Activity Mentoring (GEPAM) @ calstatelagepam

Their paper is a two-hour, self-paced, interactive online course designed specifically to improve exercise professionals’ attitudes towards fatness, thereby reducing weight stigma in fitness spaces: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24711616.2023.2175743

Resources:

Check out @ sizeinclusivetraining (Size Inclusive Training Academy) on Instagram, that certifies size inclusive fitness specialists!

The weight inclusive thinking Fitness Spaces (WIT FITS) is a course Dr. Sae-Mi Le and Dr. Luciana Zuest created to educate fitness professionals about weight stigma and the health at every size approach: https://weightinclusivethinking.com/

You can find the service learning program Golden Eagles Physical Activity Mentoring (GEPAM) here: https://calstatelagepam.com/

ASDAH (Association for Size and Diversity in Health) includes ways to advocate for yourself at a doctor's office: https://asdah.org/

Comedian skit on instagram where an individual got stabbed and the doctor said diet and exercise will help: https://www.instagram.com/p/CSz50QXJy58/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

NAAFA - From their website, “National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) is a non-profit, all volunteer, fat rights organization dedicated to protecting the rights and improving the quality of life for fat people. NAAFA is recognized as the world’s first documented fat acceptance organization: https://naafa.org/

You can purchase Sonya Renee Taylor's book The Body is not an Apology on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Body-Not-Apology-Radical-Self-Love/dp/1626569762 or her porm https://youtu.be/iXLSKHzOLkA

Ilya Parker founded Decolonizing Fitness to help facilitate a healthy relationship with movement: https://decolonizingfitness.com/pages/about-ilya

Be Real USA offers curriculum for high schools "to provide an evidence-based, high school body image curriculum to address the needs of today’s students." https://berealusa.org/

Hawaii Surf Curve Girl - The description is from their website “Curvy Surfer Girl is a movement & community of women committed to creating body diversity and body positivity in women’s surfing”https://www.curvysurfergirl.com/about

Virgie Tovar is an author, lecturer, and leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity”: https://www.virgietovar.com/ -

This is a book by Dr. Dawn Clifford who is a collaborator of Dr. Sae-Mi Le and Dr. Luciana Zuest. Her book describes how to apply motivational interviewing to nutrition and exercise behavior change through a weight inclusive approach https://www.guilford.com/books/Motivational-Interviewing-in-Nutrition-and-Fitness/Clifford-Curtis/9781462524181

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