The theatre industry and drama schools are embracing “plus-size inclusivity training” to combat “fatphobia” and promote a more ‘inclusive’ environment for fat people. The Telegraphhas the details.
Ruth Anna Phillips, a “plus-size director” who runs workshops to address “anti-fat bias”, told the Stage earlier this month that “one drama school had already agreed to provide the size inclusion training for its staff.”
The training was devised “following research carried out by Ms. Phillips, which she said showed that nine out of 10 respondents felt teachers and facilitators should have training on size inclusion”, according to the weekly theatre newspaper.
Ms. Phillips is co-founder of Inclusion Collective, an organisation that provides training in “creative wellbeing”, “body positivity” and “inclusive movement”, among other areas. Her website contains resources on “fat activism” – “advocacy for the rights and dignity of fat people, combating discrimination” and “the body consciousness scale”, among other materials.
Phillips said she has been “able to solidify and archive her work” thanks to Arts Council England’s (ACE) “developing your creative practice grant” (DYCP), funded by the National Lottery.
Buzzing to announce my DYCP ‘Body Acceptance & Inclusion’ was successful
Thanks to @ace_national I can now formalise my work on making theatre more inclusive of diverse body shapes & embed an understanding of body image & fatphobia
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— Ruth Anna Phillips (@ruthphillips100) April 3, 2023
ACE records show she was awarded £10,479 last year, which she used to develop her project “body acceptance and inclusion”. …
On Tuesday, Ms. Phillips visited Battersea Arts Centre, where she ran a “focus group for plus-size performers”. Pictures show participants engaged in a writing exercise, followed by pieces of paper with words on them such as “curvaceous”, “burly”, “fat”, “stocky” and “portly”.
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Size Inclusion: another parasitic industry that no doubt gets backdoor funding from the pharmaceutical industry whose greatest enemy is a healthy, happy, resilient human race.
This bloody woke industry is beyond a joke now. The country needs people at work doing real jobs that benefit the economy as a whole and not work shy skivers discussing the latest 2 for 1 deals at Maccy D’s or KFC. And none, absolutely NONE of this is the responsibility of the taxpayer funded Arts Counncil.
How is it that all these stories which are guaranteed to turn people away from the Tories are coming out now? It all looks a bit obvious?
Solentviews
10 months ago
Straight out of Little Britain; but it’s not funny. How did society end up here?
Why do all female pop stars look slim and sexy? Why do none of them ever look like Angela Merkel or Nicola Sturgeon? Maybe the music industry needs some diversity training.
Yup not many leading ladies look like them either, and not many leading men are fat and ugly. The audiences are all horrible bigots who should learn to love looking at plain looking people.
Eh but it is entertainment. I don’t want entertained by ugly people like Sturgeon unless they are comedians or great musicians that are not playing kiddie pop tunes.
Frank Haviland giving Fishy and Kneel a thorough going over, the lying turds.
Fishy didn’t have SKY TV growing up.
That’s because it didn’t launch until until he was 27.
Kneel’s parents were so bad at managing money they couldn’t pay their household bills so the ‘phone got cut-off. And I’m a virgin.
godknowsimgood
10 months ago
I wholeheartedly agree that every law-abiding person in society should be accepted for who and what they are, and nobody should be made to feel excluded or alienated from the rest of society. So I look forward to reading a similar report sometime in the very near future about how the following persecuted and oppressed people in our society can be made to feel included and loved:
‘Theatres and drama schools have been offered “antivaxxer inclusivity training” to tackle “antivaxxerphobia” and help the industry become “more inclusive for vaccine sceptics”.
Ruth Anna Phillips, a “vaccine-sceptic director” who runs workshops to address “anti-antivaxxer bias”, told The Stage earlier this month that “one drama school had already agreed to provide the antivaxxer inclusion training for its staff.”
The training was devised “following research carried out by Ms Phillips, which she said showed that nine out of 10 respondents felt teachers and facilitators should have training on antivaxxer inclusion”, according to the weekly theatre newspaper.
Ms Phillips is co-founder of Inclusion Collective, an organisation that provides training in “creative wellbeing”, “body positivity” and “inclusive movement”, among other areas. Her website contains resources on “antivaxxer activism” – “advocacy for the rights and dignity of antivax people, combating discrimination” and “the bodily autonomy scale”, among other materials.
Phillips said she has been “able to solidify and archive her work” thanks to Arts Council England’s (ACE) “developing your creative practice grant” (DYCP), funded by the National Lottery.
ACE records show she was awarded £10,479 last year, which she used to develop her project “antivaxxer acceptance and inclusion”.
She has previously run workshops to help “teachers, directors, coaches, movement directors” to enhance their “inclusive practice and allow ALL bodies – vaccinated and unvaccinated – to be celebrated in [their] work including those, who have often been marginalised and faced stereotyping in theatre”.
On Tuesday, Ms Phillips visited Battersea Arts Centre, where she ran a “focus group for antivax performers”. Pictures show participants engaged in a writing exercise, followed by pieces of paper with words on them such as “vaccine doubter”, “critical thinker”, “vaccination dissenter”, “rebel” and “free spirit”.’
How about the four eyed and ginger mingers? Bald as a bladder of lard people too. Justin’s (small willies)? Symbiotic parasites but in this case only the parasite benefits. I am so tired of these scammers.
How about “far right” inclusivity courses aka getting on with the majority of the population?
soundofreason
10 months ago
I can assure Ms Philips I don’t have the moral high ground here but what do the public health vets say we should aspire to in terms of body shape?
That said, what do the public health vets know about health?
Not everyone can look like a supermodel but many of them have put enormous effort into joining the elite group to look as they do. I was never going to be an elite athlete or a supermodel either.
If I wanted someone to show off clothes I’d employ a ‘model’; if I want someone to show off sports gear I’d choose an athlete. For a play I’d choose an actor – you know, someone who can pretend convincingly.
Last edited 10 months ago by soundofreason
RTSC
10 months ago
Robbie Coltrane didn’t need “inclusion training” to get on. Neither did Hattie Jacques.
And they succeeded when lard arses were far less prevalent.
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Size Inclusion: another parasitic industry that no doubt gets backdoor funding from the pharmaceutical industry whose greatest enemy is a healthy, happy, resilient human race.
This bloody woke industry is beyond a joke now. The country needs people at work doing real jobs that benefit the economy as a whole and not work shy skivers discussing the latest 2 for 1 deals at Maccy D’s or KFC. And none, absolutely NONE of this is the responsibility of the taxpayer funded Arts Counncil.
How is it that all these stories which are guaranteed to turn people away from the Tories are coming out now? It all looks a bit obvious?
Straight out of Little Britain; but it’s not funny. How did society end up here?
End up? Oh Hell, surely not.
Why do all female pop stars look slim and sexy? Why do none of them ever look like Angela Merkel or Nicola Sturgeon? Maybe the music industry needs some diversity training.
Yup not many leading ladies look like them either, and not many leading men are fat and ugly. The audiences are all horrible bigots who should learn to love looking at plain looking people.
Eh but it is entertainment. I don’t want entertained by ugly people like Sturgeon unless they are comedians or great musicians that are not playing kiddie pop tunes.
Being attracted to physical beauty is entirely natural
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/peddling-poverty/
Frank Haviland giving Fishy and Kneel a thorough going over, the lying turds.
Fishy didn’t have SKY TV growing up.
That’s because it didn’t launch until until he was 27.
Kneel’s parents were so bad at managing money they couldn’t pay their household bills so the ‘phone got cut-off. And I’m a virgin.
I wholeheartedly agree that every law-abiding person in society should be accepted for who and what they are, and nobody should be made to feel excluded or alienated from the rest of society. So I look forward to reading a similar report sometime in the very near future about how the following persecuted and oppressed people in our society can be made to feel included and loved:
‘Theatres and drama schools have been offered “antivaxxer inclusivity training” to tackle “antivaxxerphobia” and help the industry become “more inclusive for vaccine sceptics”.
Ruth Anna Phillips, a “vaccine-sceptic director” who runs workshops to address “anti-antivaxxer bias”, told The Stage earlier this month that “one drama school had already agreed to provide the antivaxxer inclusion training for its staff.”
The training was devised “following research carried out by Ms Phillips, which she said showed that nine out of 10 respondents felt teachers and facilitators should have training on antivaxxer inclusion”, according to the weekly theatre newspaper.
Ms Phillips is co-founder of Inclusion Collective, an organisation that provides training in “creative wellbeing”, “body positivity” and “inclusive movement”, among other areas. Her website contains resources on “antivaxxer activism” – “advocacy for the rights and dignity of antivax people, combating discrimination” and “the bodily autonomy scale”, among other materials.
Phillips said she has been “able to solidify and archive her work” thanks to Arts Council England’s (ACE) “developing your creative practice grant” (DYCP), funded by the National Lottery.
ACE records show she was awarded £10,479 last year, which she used to develop her project “antivaxxer acceptance and inclusion”.
She has previously run workshops to help “teachers, directors, coaches, movement directors” to enhance their “inclusive practice and allow ALL bodies – vaccinated and unvaccinated – to be celebrated in [their] work including those, who have often been marginalised and faced stereotyping in theatre”.
On Tuesday, Ms Phillips visited Battersea Arts Centre, where she ran a “focus group for antivax performers”. Pictures show participants engaged in a writing exercise, followed by pieces of paper with words on them such as “vaccine doubter”, “critical thinker”, “vaccination dissenter”, “rebel” and “free spirit”.’
How about the four eyed and ginger mingers? Bald as a bladder of lard people too. Justin’s (small willies)? Symbiotic parasites but in this case only the parasite benefits. I am so tired of these scammers.
How about “far right” inclusivity courses aka getting on with the majority of the population?
I can assure Ms Philips I don’t have the moral high ground here but what do the public health vets say we should aspire to in terms of body shape?
That said, what do the public health vets know about health?
Not everyone can look like a supermodel but many of them have put enormous effort into joining the elite group to look as they do. I was never going to be an elite athlete or a supermodel either.
If I wanted someone to show off clothes I’d employ a ‘model’; if I want someone to show off sports gear I’d choose an athlete. For a play I’d choose an actor – you know, someone who can pretend convincingly.
Robbie Coltrane didn’t need “inclusion training” to get on. Neither did Hattie Jacques.
And they succeeded when lard arses were far less prevalent.