We volunteer our time to create awareness and educate our campus on issues surrounding body image. We hope you will find this site helpful and feel free to use our programming as an example for your own groups. We aim to promote positive body image and celebration of all body types by challenging societal notions of a particular ideal of beauty and encouraging people to accept their own bodies. It would be major social change if women s happiness was not dependent on conforming to to unrealistic societal ideals.
Body image is a feminist issue.
Feminism has had a positive impact on health education in our society. Feminist ideas are often denounced as divisive, anti-male, and too radical. We think effective educators can critique feminism without trashing it. It is not necessary to self-identify as a feminist to be an effective educator, but it is necessary to appreciate the contributions of feminism to the movement against body hatred. We must learn to listen to our bodies.