Weight Stigma Awareness Week 2026

Weight Stigma Awareness Week 2026 will take place September 8–9

This year’s theme, The Power of Fat Joy, celebrates visibility, belonging, creativity, and the right of fat people to live fully and joyfully without apology.

Created and co-hosted by Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt of Within Health, and Chevese Turner of The Body Equity Alliance, Weight Stigma Awareness Week is committed to educating and empowering people to confront and end the traumatic, destructive anti-fatness rooted in racism, shame, and discrimination based on body shape and size.

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