NAAFA Webinar Series: Fat Lib & Food Justice with Patrilie Hernandez
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
4PM PT / 5PM MT / 6PM CT / 7PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes
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In this episode of the NAAFA Webinar Series, host Tigress Osborn (she/her) is joined by food justice advocate and body liberation activist Patrilie Hernandez (they/she) to discuss perceptions and misperceptions of bigger bodies in health, nutrition, and public policy. Patrilie combines over 15 years professional experience with their lived experience and community observations to provide insights about how colonization, white supremacy, diet culture, and systemic discrimination create our impressions of which foods and which people are good or bad. We’ll discuss what practitioners, clients, and everyone else can do to ensure weight-inclusive approaches to making sure everyone in our communities has access to the food they need to survive and thrive.
NAAFA virtual events are for fat people and fat-positive friends of all sizes. Our virtual events are offered free of charge thanks to the generosity of our community of NAAFA donors. To support this work and other NAAFA programming, make a donation today at naafa.org/give.
This event is presented via Zoom, in English, and with English auto-captions by Otter.ai. ASL Interpreting by Pro Bono ASL (@probonoasl).
The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance is a 501(c)3 charitable organization with a mission to change perceptions of fat and to end size discrimination through advocacy, education, and support. Learn more at naafa.org.
GUEST Bio:
Image Description (provided by guest): A picture of Patrilie Hernandez, a fat femme of color with light-brown skin and shoulder length curly-wavy hair. They are wearing a yellow top and navy blue blazer.
Patrilie Hernandez (they/she) has over 15 years of experience working in the health and nutrition sector, which has shaped their understanding of how the pursuit of "health" seamlessly intersects with the built environment, equity, and social justice. It wasn’t until they were diagnosed with an eating disorder in 2017 that they realized how much of their own disordered behaviors and thoughts around food, health, and bodies infiltrated all aspects of both their personal life and career. Since then, their interest has broadened to address other structural determinants that influence individual wellbeing and community health. They use their own lived experience as a higher-weight, multiracial, neuroatypical, queer femme of the Puerto Rican diaspora to disrupt the status quo of current health and wellness spaces, advocating for a weight-inclusive and interdisciplinary paradigm. Combining their academic background in culinary arts, social science, nonprofit management, public health, and nutrition, Patrilie partners with providers and organizations to integrate multidimensional frameworks and strategies that improve the health and wellbeing of historically marginalized communities. Follow Patrilie @the_bodylib_advocate
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