I'm at the Association for Size Diversity and Health conference this weekend in Boston, MA, and I'm very excited to get to give a presentation tomorrow called "Fat Studies & Mental Health – A New Intersectional Lens." It's part of their "Difficult Conversations" weekend, which began this evening with a group dinner, a discussion of how to bravely engage in...[ 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 ]
1) This little girl is complaining about the very thing I was getting out in Bad Santa Part II: gender policing. Yay for her supportive dad! 2) Feminists and family therapists take note: Sick [heterosexually-married] men get support from their wives. Sick [heterosexually-married] women get... divorced. (Gay people don't exist, and single people die in a ditch, I guess.) 3)...[ read more ]
