Digital Resource Library

Burton, A., & Confino, P. (2023, April). What to know about New York’s weight discrimination ban next month. Fortune. https://fortune.com/2023/04/27/weight-discrimination-hr-laws-nyc/

Finn, K., Seymour C. & Phillips, A. (2019, October 26). Weight bias and grading among middle and high school teachers. Educational Psychology, Volume 90, Issue 3. https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjep.12322?af=R

Frost, A. (2021, November 24). The Toxic Phrase We Need to Stop Saying Around the Holidays. Huffpost. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/toxic-phrase-holidays_l_619d0cdae4b07fe201116325

Gardiner, F. (2020). An Unacceptable Sacrifice: Fatphobia, Ableism, and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Disability Visibility Project. https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/03/30/fatphobia-ableism-and-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Gordon, A. (2020). As Coronavirus Rages, We Need to Talk About Anti-Fat Bias in Medicine. SELF. https://www.self.com/story/coronavirus-medical-anti-fat-bias

Gordon, A. (2021). “Fat” Isn’t a Bad Word—It’s Just the Way I Describe My Body. SELF. https://www.self.com/story/fat-isnt-bad-word

Gordon, A. (2021c, March 9). How You Might Be Benefiting From Thinness—Even If You Don’t Feel “Thin.” SELF. https://www.self.com/story/proximity-to-thinness

Gordon, A. (2021). I’m a Fat Activist. Here’s Why I Don’t Use the Word “Fatphobia.” SELF. https://www.self.com/story/fat-activist-fatphobia

Gordon, A. (2021, January 19). It’s Time to Retire “You’re Not Fat, You’re Beautiful!” SELF. https://www.self.com/story/not-fat-beautiful

Gordon, A. (2020, August 7). We Have to Stop Thinking of Being “Healthy” as Being Morally Better. SELF. https://www.self.com/story/healthism

Gordon, A. (2017, January 1). Weight Stigma Kept Me Out Of Doctors’ Offices for Almost a Decade. SELF. https://www.self.com/story/weight-stigma-kept-me-out-of-doctors-offices

Harrop, E. N., Mensinger, J. L., Moore, M., & Lindhorst, T. (2021). Restrictive eating disorders in higher weight persons: A systematic review of atypical anorexia nervosa prevalence and consecutive admission literature. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 54(8), 1328–1357. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.23519

Lessard, L. M., Watson, R. J., Schacter, H. L., Wheldon, C. W., & Puhl, R. M. (2022). Weight enumeration in United States anti-bullying laws: associations with rates and risks of weight-based bullying among sexual and gender minority adolescents. Journal of Public Health Policy, 43(1), 27–39. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41271-021-00322-w

Martin, A. (2017). 49 States Legally Allow Employers to Discriminate Based on Weight. Time. https://time.com/4883176/weight-discrimination-workplace-laws/

Orsini, M., & McPhail, D. (2020). Opinion: Ending fatphobia isn’t enough - we need to stop pathologizing obesity. The Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-ending-fatphobia-isnt-enough-we-need-to-stop-pathologizing-obesity/

Pearl, R. (2018). "In 2019, Let's Make a New Year's Resolution to End Weight Stigma." Newsela. https://newsela.com/read/end-weight-bias/id/48538/

Sole-Smith, V. (2021). In Obesity Research, Fatphobia Is Always the X Factor. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-obesity-research-fatphobia-is-always-the-x-factor/

Thompson, H. R., & Madsen, K. A. (2017). The Report Card on BMI Report Cards. Current Obesity Reports, 6(2), 163–167. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13679-017-0259-6

Tutt. P. (2022). "Weight Bias Hurts Kids, and We're Not Talking About It." Edutopia. https://www.edutopia.org/article/weight-bias-hurts-kids-and-were-not-talking-about-it