April 2, 2011
Check out this incredible work of Susan Singer–artist and body activist based in the Richmond, Virginia area. She has a beautiful, organic process of getting women to experience and celebrate their own bodies through the creative process of her paintings, and is working on a book and film related to the work.
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April 2, 2011
Another valuable reflection on the Endangered Species Summit experience, this one focusing on means, end, and movement-building. An excerpt:
If we’re going to accomplish anything within the movement of positive body image in the public eye, our interactions with each other are the utmost important tool in this process. Some people might be uncomfortable addressing individuals in power who they harbor anger towards, but some of that anger needs to be let go and transformed into ambition in order to ultimately achieve our goal.
Women on all ends of the spectrum need to come together and form a solution instead of placing blame on the few faces involved in the mainstream. In an ideal world, the radical and mainstream champions for positive body image will come together to create a safe space for continued dialog.
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April 1, 2011
Please read my thoughts on “becoming what we have never seen” in the body activism movement over at Alternet. Here’s an excerpt:
As an international body-focused movement takes form, we must re-imagine who it is that we’re fighting for. It’s not just rich, white girls with eating disorders—though we’re fighting for them, too—it’s women worldwide who are suffering from what Susie Orbach calls “corporeal colonialism.” In our increasingly globalized world, where corporate conglomerates produce the majority of both the products we buy and the media we read, we are all stuck together in this sticky, toxic web of disembodiment.
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