Recently, Cory Steig of Refinery 29 reached out to me to ask for some advice on how to handle all the weird, body-shaming, food-shaming things families can do and say during the holidays (when food is EVERYWHERE, of course - mixed messages much?) She published this great slideshow of some of my responses, but I wanted to offer a fuller...[ read more ]
I'm pleased to say that I've been published in the "Fat Studies" journal, and an e-print of my article is now available online. I was asked to review two recent publications, Hanne Blank's "Big Big Love," and Rebecca Weinstein's "Fat Sex." Although I had very different responses to the two books, I was very pleased to be asked to submit...[ read more ]
It's been a quiet couple of months on the blog here as summer has ended and fall has begun. I'm at the AAMFT Annual Conference in Charlotte, NC where I'm presenting with Dr. Michael Loewy of Alliant International University on our research about one of his doctoral electives. Dr. Loewy has offered a "Fat Acceptance and Health at Every Size"...[ read more ]
As we take a day to celebrate American independence, here's some freedoms worth celebrating. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] My ancestor George Wythe is somewhere in here. Thanks George![/caption] - Independence from dieting. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all [people] are unique, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,...[ read more ]
I'm at the American Family Therapy Academy's annual meeting/conference this week. Fortunately it's in my backyard. Unfortunately this means driving across the Bay Bridge in rush hour traffic every morning for the opening plenary. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="@bacigalupe (AFTA President-elect) and @drsaddison at the AFTA Special Event"][/caption] Doing family-therapy-y, social-justice-y stuff all day is hard work! I'm beat! Also...[ read more ]
