From Group Chat to Grassroots: Welcome to End Weight Bias

This is our very first blog post and we’re glad you’re here.

Each month, we’ll be sharing updates, reflections, and ideas from our work at End Weight Bias. You’ll hear from people with lived experience, from our committee, and from those doing the slow, steady work of dismantling stigma and building something better. If you’d like updates straight to your inbox, we’ve also got a quarterly newsletter in the works: sign up here.

But for now, we want to mark the moment.

From Frustration to Formation

It began, as so many things do, with frustration. After years of navigating weight bias in life, in healthcare, in policy, and in everyday interactions, our founder was venting with friends. The stories shared weren’t new, but the moment felt different. There was energy in the air and a collective sense that enough was enough.

In that conversation, the vision became clear, there was passion, there was purpose, and there was a hunger to act. Our founder voiced the idea and the response was immediate and unanimous: Yes. Let’s do this.

There was a shared fire. A collective urge to stop waiting for change and start building it, and the founding membership was forged. We weren’t alone in our passion or our power. We each had networks we could engage, skills we could offer, and a shared vision we could shape.

Fast-forward to today, we’ve just had our first committee meeting, six months after that first conversation. We’re a registered association. We’re a registered charity. Our website is about to launch. Memberships are officially opening soon. We’ve developed our advocacy priorities and mapped out our vision for the next decade. Yep, the next decade! We’ve gone from group chat to grassroots.

And this is just the beginning.

Planning for impact

Our first committee meeting was a time to reflect on where we started and where we’re headed. We’ve now set our key priorities for the next 12 months and shaped the long-term vision that will guide us in the years ahead.

In the short term, we’re focusing our advocacy on three key areas:

• Legal protections against appearance-based discrimination

• Reducing harm in education settings

• Celebrating joy and lived experience through a global campaign, launching soon

We’ll be sharing more on each of these in future posts, but in the meantime, we’re already laying the groundwork. We’ve begun engaging with policymakers, contributing to government submissions, and opening conversations that we hope will grow into long-term, systemic change. The start is small, but the vision is bold.

Our full website is live, with more content and resources on the way, including a language guide to support respectful, stigma-free conversations.

What’s coming next

We’ve got big plans, and we’re just getting started. Here's a sneak peek at some upcoming blogs:

• Be the Change – small steps anyone can take to help end weight bias

• Reclaiming the Narrative – a look at how we’re reframing days of significance

• Rights Should Be One Size Fits All – a deep dive into our push for anti-discrimination protections

• Don’t Say O – a conversation about language, and why we don’t use the O-words

Each post will offer insights from lived experience, practical ideas, and a clear path forward, because changing systems starts with shifting conversations.

Join the movement

We’re here for the long haul. If you're passionate about creating a world where all bodies are respected, you're in the right place.

Blogs will drop monthly. Newsletters quarterly. And we’ll be on socials in between, amplifying voices, challenging bias, and celebrating the radical act of showing up, exactly as you are.

This is just the beginning. Because weight bias kills. Respect isn't radical. All bodies are good bodies. And every BODY deserves respect.

Let’s End Weight Bias. Together.