Heavy Burdens

?Heavy Burdens takes up the important discussion of fat and motherhood by blending both scholarly and personal analyses. This collection looks both ?up? at mothers (from a child’s view) and ?down? from motherhood, complicating ideas about motherhood, responsibility, and individuality through the rocky terrain of weight stigma.” ?Dr. May Friedman, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Ryerson University

Judy Verseghy is a recent graduate of the MA program in Critical Disability Studies at York University in Toronto, Ontario. Her academic interests include mothering, caregiving, mental health, autism, and fat studies. She is a mother of three humans and three fur babies, and loves all of them deeply (and widely). Sam Abel is a practicing social worker, a PhD candidate, and an artist. Her social work practice focuses on refugee settlement, mental health, body acceptance, and familial relationships. Sam’s academic research explores the experiences of fat people in health care and in the fashion industry.