From: Body Haven Date: October 11, 2022 Subject: Body Haven October Newsletter
October Newsletter '22
Happy Scary Season!
Hello, all! We at Body Haven wish you a happy October and hope that you've been enjoying the fall weather! The semester is off to a great start! It's been so exciting to meet everyone at our events. We are having a blast! We have two more meetings lined up for you this month, a movie night and a murder mystery! We hope you can make it!
Here's a reminder that we are still in need of models for our spring runway show! Our model call is open until November 11th. If you're interested, please send in a headshot, full body photo, your full name and pronouns to bodyhaven.colum@gmail.com. No experience necessary.Can't wait to hear from you!
Lindley Ashline has collected 11 body-positive and fat-positive Halloween gifts to decorate your walls, clothing, bulletin boards and fall jean jackets! Each one supports marginalized artists and small businesses.
"Use your voice to demand that retailers carry costumes that make sense for larger bodies...We could use more accessible costumes for people using wheelchairs or other mobility devices and more options that don’t focus on being sexy for people who don’t want to play up that aspect of their personality on Halloween. Let’s ask for more gender-neutral costumes sized to fit large bodies. Fat people are not a tiny sliver of the population, and we shouldn’t have a tiny sliver of the costume options.
Be creative with group costumes. Make sure the fat people in your circle can participate without feeling singled out or humiliated. You won’t be missing anything!
Add 'fat' to your list of prohibited costume attributes. If you wouldn’t look at a fat person you love and tell them the shape of their body is hilarious and grotesque, don’t use padding to make your body look like ours in an effort to make a joke. (And if you would do that, probably consider an entire personality transplant because you’re literally the worst.)"
Artist Spotlight: Ren Buchness
Ren Buchness is a contemporary artist and fat activist based in Tucson, Arizona. By combining painting and performance, they aim to question Western standards of beauty and create conversations that alter preconceived notions about the fat body. Go check out their gorgeous work!
In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that profit from it, exposing all the ways it robs people of their time, money, health, and happiness. It will turn what you think you know about health and wellness upside down, as Harrison explores the history of diet culture, how it’s infiltrated the health and wellness world, how to recognize it in all its sneaky forms, and how letting go of efforts to lose weight or eat “perfectly” actually helps to improve people’s health—no matter their size.
Drawing on scientific research, personal experience, and stories from patients and colleagues, Anti-Diet provides a radical alternative to diet culture, and helps readers reclaim their bodies, minds, and lives so they can focus on the things that truly matter.
