Why your DE&I efforts should include size representation

In recent years, DE&I strategies have seen increased investments, especially as younger workers seek companies whose public values mirror their own. Yet body size is seldom included within the framework of traditional DE&I messaging.

The lack of size-inclusive dialogue in DE&I campaigns exemplifies how deeply we have fallen into diet culture’s $71 billion-dollar annual trap. Size inclusivity is continually overlooked as a critical facet of progressive representation: plus-size people are rarely depicted on corporate websites and training platforms, let alone in advertisements. They are hidden and ignored. But what if, instead of hiding larger bodies, we placed them right next to straight-sized ones, without labeling it as a revolutionary social statement? What if they just existed, as they do in regular life?