Building community or perpetuating inclusionism? The representation of “inclusion” on fitness facility websites

Despite mandates for inclusion, fitness spaces are often unwelcoming for bodies of difference. The disconnect between the formal rules (e.g. policies) of inclusion and people’s ongoing lived experiences of exclusion is what disability scholars call inclusionism. We used Google Maps to search for ‘inclusive gyms’ in our medium-sized city in Canada and curated a list of 47 facility websites. Using a collaborative reflexive thematic analysis, our …