Someone call DOGE!-----UW-Madison bars reporters from ‘fat liberation’ event - Rebecca Draeger

“We reject the idea that a body type can be a disease,” she said. “It’s possible to be fat and healthy, fat and unhealthy, thin and healthy, thin and unhealthy.

MADISON, Wis. – “Health is not just about health,” Kelsey Foster, a university librarian, said at the Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium conference on April 10 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
Recording is prohibited throughout the entire three-day panel held at the publicly-funded university. 

The conference is titled “Embodying Feminism: Calling In, Calling Out, Calling to Action.”...
This conference has been hosted annually for 49 years. 

This year, it includes speeches and breakout sessions on a range of feminist topics, including one on “Anti-oppressive pedagogical practice”, a keynote on “Criminalizing the Crisis: Bodies ‘Out of Place’ and Neoliberal (Dis)Order”, and a speech titled “Capitalism, Caste, and Creativity: Pushing Back on Spaces and Systems of Oppression.”

• Fourteen co-sponsors of the event are listed on the conference website, including the UW-Madison Gender and Sexuality Campus Center and the UW-Madison department of gender and women’s studies.
• The website also states that the event is being held “under the auspices of the UNESCO Chair on Gender, Wellbeing and a Culture of Peace as part of a global United Nations Platform on education, science, and culture.”