Sierra College Love Your Body Week - Recently Updated Pages

Workshop Descriptions

mseely — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:51:12 CDT

What did we do in 2009???

Interested in 2010 events, check back early next year for a new schedule of events

Ongoing Events

Body Secret Viewing Booth!
Monday-Thursday

Rocklin: Campus Life Center - 9:00am-3:00pm
NCC: 1st floor of LRC - 9:00am-8:00pm

Take a peek at this year's body secret submissions -- a semi-private viewing experience to encourage personal reflection. Come once, twice or many times throughout the week. Bring your friends!

Exposed! Sierra College Student Photography exhibit
in the Picture Window Gallery on the second floor of Weaver Hall
Rocklin campus Monday-Thursday

Monday, March 23rd

Cross Cultural Perspectives on Beauty
Rocklin Campus, room V229
Monday, 3/23 9:30-10:50am

Thursday, March 26th

Good Looking: Art, Beauty and Selling Desire
Rocklin campus Room D12
Thursday 3/26 11-12:20pm
What connects the curves of Venus de Milo to women who flash their bodies for the cameras of Girls Gone Wild ? In this media presentation by Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Art History Professor, and Kathleen Taylor, Psychology and Women’s Studies Professor, the object is woman.

Student Activism
Rocklin campus, Fireside Room
Thursday, 3/26 12:30-1:50pm
Student facilitated workshop aimed at showing students the consequences of eating disorders and how the role of media institutions influences these disorders. With SC Student Chelsea Johnson.

Bodies and Gender with Markee Slagel
NCC Campus Room L 206**
Thursday 3/26 12:30 – 1:50 pm Join UC Davis graduate student and transgendered activist Markee Slagel for a personal dialogue about her life experiences and the socially constructed meaning of gendered bodies. **Room may change

A Wrinkle in Time: Ageist Language in Advertising
Rocklin campus, Fireside Room
Thursday 3/26 2-3:20pm
Gaining momentum in our society is a new anti-aging campaign, its message: you can control and defy age. The role of the mass media in cultivating a culture of ageism is evidenced in the language used in skin-care advertisements; using words such as age, wrinkle, line, young and old. See how ageist language has evolved in American magazine advertisements from 1988 to 2008. With SC Professor Christy Magnani

Peace for Warriors with Andre Sims
NCC Campus Room L 101
Thursday 3/26 4-6pm
Peace for Warriors is a remarkable process that allows the participant to gain a greater awareness of not only their body but their relationship with their, body, mind, and spirit.
It's a safe and magical experience that everyone can enjoy. Please come prepared to do low impact exercise, meditate, and relax.

LYBW Schedule of Events

mseely — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:48:49 CDT

Check back here in 2010 for a Calendar of Events!

For directions and/or maps to our campus locations, click here.

Sierra College Love Your Body Week Home

mseely — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:46:56 CDT

LYBW Logo Contest Winner!
Logo design for 2009 & 2010 by Sierra College student, Dirk Stockton

Mark Your Calendars for 2010!!!
LYBW is now scheduled for
March 22-25, 2010

Co-Sponsored by the Associated Students of Sierra College and the
Sierra College Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance

“Love your body. Take back the world.” --Eve Ensler

Kick Off Event!!! The Good Body

mseely — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:22:20 CDT

Check back toward the end of 2009, for next year's February's Kick Off Event

Add your comments about 2009 below!!

One student observer had this to say...

"I really enjoyed the slide show. I hope that this project gets bigger every year. Seeing the slides made me think more so of how every person does have a body part they don't agree with, which helped me to think that I definitely was not alone. It made made me want to submit an entry of a disliked body part of mine, but only this time I can say to myself,
"hey, there are worse things out there!"

See photos for this event!

Body Secrets of Sierra College

mseely — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:15:43 CDT

View this movie presentation of the Body Secrets of Sierra College submissions from 2007:

and Take a look at the 2009 Body Secrets.

Lovin' Your Body Resources

mseely — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:04:00 CDT

Click on the links on the left for many fabulous Lovin' Your Body resources!!

Also make sure to check out the following websites:

Good Vibrations ("Good Vibrations is a diverse, woman-focused retailer providing access to sex-positive products and accurate sex information through our clean and comfortable stores, catalog, and web site in order to enhance our customers' sex lives and to promote healthy attitudes about sex.")

Jackson Katz, Tough Guise (violence, media and masculinity)
Jean Kilbourne, Killing Us Softly (women, media and advertising)
Love Your Body.org Ophira Edut
National Eating Disorders Association
NOMAS (National Organization for Men Against Sexism)
Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia
PEACE for Families (Placer Co. domestic violence shelter and resources)
Sierra Family Services, Inc.
Sierra Foothills AIDS Foundation
Summit Eating Disorders (local treatment and education)
The Survivor Project (trans violence prevention)
WEAVE (Women Escaping a Violent Environment--shelter, education and resources)
The White Ribbon Campaign ("Men working to end men's violence against women")
Women's Health Specialists (feminist, women-controlled health services and education)

Media

mseely — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:41:01 CDT

2009

"Teacher's battle with eating disorder subject of Sierra College event," by Neisha Long, Sacramento Bee, March 23, 2009.

Kitty O'Neal and RE Graswich from KFBK News Talk 1350 Interview Megan Seely about Love Your Body Week, March 23, 2009

Style Magazine: Roseville, Granite Bay, Rocklin edition Calendar

Rocklin & Roseville Today, February 26, 2009 "3rd Annual Love Your Body Week at Sierra College"

Sacramento Bee, February 15, 2009 "Happy with what you've got" (Christy Magnani and the Real Body Story)

For a press release for the 2009 Love Your Body Week events, see attachment below.

2008

See News 10 broadcast April 28, 2008

Sacramento Bee April 28, 2008 "College students share secrets for Love Your Body Week."

The Roseville Press-Tribune announcement

The Placer Herald announcement

Workshop Handouts

mseely — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:06:16 CDT

"Demystifying HPV: Concerns and Information About HPV Vaccines" from Women's Health Specialists presentation on March 23, 2009.

Additional workshop handouts are linked as attachments below

2009 Event Photos!!

mseely — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:50:18 CDT

2008 Event Photos

mseely — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:41:40 CDT

	Michelle Pacansky-Brock and Jennifer Molina-Stidger
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on beauty	Discussion at the Cross-Cultural Perspectives event
Markee Slagel and Professor Stephanie Coday	Disordered Eating...or Eating Disorder? Panel with Melissa McLain, Peach Friedman, and Katie Cougevan
Sociology of Women's Health Student Projects	"HPV--What Every Woman Should Know" Kadessah and Jene from Women's Health Specialists

Event Flyers:

brocansky — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:45:48 CDT

Sierra College Library Resources for Eating Disorders

mseely — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:06:16 CST

Books
Berg, Francie M. Women Afraid to Eat: Breaking Free in Today’s Weight-Obsessed World. Hettinger, N.D.: Healthy Weight Network, 2000. (Rocklin 616.398 B493)

Berry, Bonnie. Beauty Bias: Discrimination and Social Power. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2007.
(Rocklin 306.4613 B534)

Blum, Virginia L. Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. (Rocklin and NCC 617.95 B658)

Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. New York: Vintage Books, 1998. (Rocklin and NCC 305.235 B893)

Body Image: A Handbook of Theory, Research and Clinical Practice. New York: Guilford Press, 2002.
(Rocklin 306.4 B668c)

Covino, Deborah Caslav. Amending the Abject Body: Aesthetic Makeovers in Medicine and Culture. New York: State University of New York Press, 2004. (electronic book*)

Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2008. (Rocklin R 306.4 C868t)

Durham, Meenakshi Gigi. The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It. Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2008. (Rocklin 302.23 D961)

Edut, Ophira. Adios, Barbie: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity. Seattle: Seal Press, 1998.
(NCC 306.4 A235)

Gilman, Sander L. Fat Boys: A Slim Book. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
(Rocklin 616.3980081 G487)

Gilman, Sander L. Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. (Rocklin and NCC 617.95 G487)

Gimlin, Debra L. Body Work: Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. (Rocklin, NCC and electronic book* 306.4 G491)

Grogan, Sarah. Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children. London: Taylor & Francis, 2008. (electronic book)

Hall, Stephen S. Size Matters: How Height Affects the Health, Happiness and Success of Boys – and the Men They Become. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2006. (NCC 612.6 H179)

Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy. Am I Thin Enough Yet? The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. (Rocklin and electronic book* 306.4 H587)

Kalodner, Cynthia R. Too Fat or Too Thin? A Reference Guide to Eating Disorders. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. (Rocklin 616.8526 K14)

Lowe, Margaret A. Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. (Rocklin 306.4 L913)

Miller, Laura. Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. (electronic book*)

Pendergast, Tom. Creating the Modern Man: American Magazines and Consumer Culture, 1900-1950. Columbia, MO: Univeristy of Missouri Press, 2000. (electronic book*)

Phillips, Katharine A. The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. (Rocklin 616.852 P561)

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin. Getting Over Getting Older: An Intimate Journey. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996.
(NCC 305.244 P746)

Shields, Vickie Rutledge. Measuring Up: How Advertising Affects Self-Image. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. (Rocklin 305.3 S555)

Stearns, Peter N. Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West. New York: New York University Press, 1997. (Rocklin 613.2509 S799)

Weight Bias: Nature, Consequences and Remedies. New York: Guilford Press, 2005. (Rocklin 306.4613 W419)

Wilhelm, Sabine. Feeling Good About the Way You Look: A Program for Overcoming Body Image Problems. New York: Guilford Press, 2006. (Rocklin 646.7 W678)

Videos

Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1997.
(Rocklin Video 616.852 B668)

Breasts: A Documentary. New York: First Run/Icarus Films, 1996. (Rocklin Video 391.62 B828)

Busting Out: A Film That Will Challenge How You Think About Breasts. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films, 2004. (Rocklin Video 391.62 B982)

Dying to Be Thin. South Burlington, VT: WGBH Video, 2000. (Rocklin Video 616.8526 D996).

The Human Body: Appearance, Shape and Self-Image. Santa Cruz, CA: University of California Extension Center for Media & Independent Learning, 1998. (Rocklin Video 613.0433 H918)

Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Documentary Films, 1979.
(Rocklin Video 659 K48)

Killing Us Softly 3. Northhampton, MA: Media Education Foundation, 2000. (NCC Video 306.4 K48)

Private Dicks: Men Exposed. New York: First Run/Icarus Films, 1995. (Rocklin Video 573.656 P961)

* Electronic books are available at http://www.netlibrary.org. To access electronic books from off-campus, an account must first be created with NetLibrary from an on-campus computer. TS 1/09

Contest! LYBW Logo Design

mseely — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:23:44 CST

LOVE YOUR BODY WEEK
“Love your body take back the world” Eve Ensler

LOGO CONTEST

We have a winner!!

Winner: Sierra College student, Dirk Stockton

Contest Application

mseely — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:17:36 CDT

Name:

Address:

Phone:

Email:

I have read and agree to the terms of this contest.

Signature Date

Application MUST accompany your logo submission for your submission to be considered. You may copy and paste the above into your own word document or print the copy attached below.

Contest Rules

mseely — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:39:21 CDT

Love Your Body Week Logo Competition
Feeling creative? Design and submit a logo for Love Your Body Week! The winning logo will receive $250 in cash and a Barnes and Noble gift card for $250. The winning submission will be used as the logo for Love Your Body Week in spring 2009 and spring 2010.

What is a logo? A logo is generally an image or images that accompany a name. The focus of the LYBW logo should communicate LYBW and the following quote “Love your body take back the world” Eve Ensler Who Can

Enter: All current Sierra College students, faculty, and staff members.

When: Entries must be submitted by 5 pm on November 24, 2008 – late submissions are not eligible. Winning entry will be announced on December 3, 2008.

How: Submissions must include both an 8½” x 11” hard copy and a digital copy. Entries can be dropped at the following locations: Rocklin Campus – Weaver 222; Roseville Gateway – RG 10; NCC - Library. Please include with your submission your full name, address, phone number, and email.

Judges: Entries will be judged by a panel of individuals representing Love Your Body Week. Panel members will not be eligible to submit entries.

By participating in this contest, entrants agree to be bound by these officials rules and regulations and the decisions of Sierra College and waive any right to claim ambiguity in this contest or these contest rules.
Logo Submission Rules / Guidelines: Multiple Entries: Entrants may submit multiple entries as long as each entry is submitted with the appropriate documentation. Disqualification: An entrant’s submission will be disqualified, at the sole discretion of Sierra College, if entrant attempts to a) to enter the contest though means other than described in these rules and regulations; or b) disrupts the contest or tampers with the contest; or c) enters any content deemed as unacceptable in nature, which will be at the discretion of Sierra College. Any attempt by an entrant to deliberately damage any website, entry or undermine the legitimate operation of the contest may be a violation of criminal and civil laws and Sierra College reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Award Winner Announcement: Information about the winning logo will be shared with the public via a Sierra College press release and posted to the website once the decision has been made. The winner will be personally contacted by telephone or email using the contact information provide on the entry form. Eligibility: All current students, faculty members and staff of Sierra College may enter. By entering, entrant releases and holds harmless Sierra College and its respective students, faculty, and staff from any damage or liability of any kind arising from or in connection with this contest, including but not limited to claims based upon the infringement of a third party’s intellectual property rights or claims based upon the enjoyment of the award. Contest entrants also agree to release Sierra College from any liability whatsoever, and waives any and all causes of action, related to any claims, costs, losses, or damages, of any kind arising out of or in connection with the LYBW logo contest.

In addition, contest entrants irrevocably and in perpetuity grant and assign to Sierra College all worldwide right, title, and interest in and to any logo submitted by contest entrants and to all intellectual property created by contest entrant arising out of participation in the in the Sierra College LYBW logo contest, and the ownership of same shall be vested totally to Sierra College for its own use and disposition. In respect of copyright, this assignment shall be effective for the entire duration of the copyright in all countries throughout the world and shall include, but not be limited to, all rights to derivative works and the right to alter the submitted logo at Sierra College’s sole discretion.

Great Body Film Clips

brocansky — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:21:01 CDT

Web Resources for Body Image

brocansky — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:16:56 CDT

Web Resources for Body Image (from Fight Like a Girl by Megan Seely)

AboutFace
A San Francisco based non-profit promoting positive self-esteem through education, outreach and activism. Website has great information and resources.

Adbusters
A magazine and a website, Adbusters is dedicated to looking critically at the role of advertising, consumerism, and media in our lives. A host of a number of campaigns including “Buy Nothing Day,” check ‘em out.

Adios Barbie, a body image site for every body

Anorexia Nervosa & Related Disorders, Inc. Provides comprehensive information about eating disorders including statistics, warning signs, treatment and recovery.

Body Positive
A fabulous website dedicated to helping women change the way they see and relate to their bodies. Website include resources, message boards, Q & A’s for body size acceptance, and other great resources for combating negative attitudes about our bodies.

Eating Disorders Referral and Information Center
Resources and referrals for eating disorders. Website has a national and international database for therapists focused on eating disorders. While primarily referred within Canada and the United States, site does have referrals for the UK, Scotland, Germany, and Australia. Site also includes a wide range of information from definitions of specific eating disorders to research and advocacy.

Fat and Feminist: Large Women’s Health Experiences
A part of the Feminist Women’s Health Center website, Fat and Feminist, provides first person accounts, research information, discussion on size prejudice, and additional resources.

International Size Acceptance Association
An international organization working to end size discrimination. Website includes resources, chapter affiliate information, discussion board and activism.

Largesse
A network for “size esteem,” Largesse provides size positive education, publication, organizations, and weblinks. Also includes weight discrimination legal referrals and media information.

National Eating Disorders Association
Information for professionals as well as general public—education, resources and treatment referrals. In the United States, call 1.800.931.2237 for more information.

National Organization for Lesbians of Size
Size acceptance resources specifically for the lesbian and queer community. Website includes information about events, conferences, speakers, and links to supporting organizations.

NOW Foundation—Love Your Body Campaign A project of NOW, Love Your Body Campaign is a nationwide effort to raise awareness about body image, eating disorders and women’s health issues. A great source of information as well as a connection to activism.

Size Wise
A size acceptance website with resources including related books, articles and links to size acceptance shopping.

Love Your Body Actions

mseely — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:22:21 CDT

(from the National Organization for Women Foundation)

Make a pact with yourself to treat your body with respect, and do things to promote positive body image. For example, give yourself a break from women's magazines and the mass media. Try a new physical activity just for fun, not to lose weight. Stop weighing yourself, and change your goal from weight loss to improving your health.
Lobby to add "size" and "physical appearance" to local, state, and national anti-discrimination legislation.
Challenge size discrimination in employment. Put pressure on companies that discriminate against fat people or force employees into weight-loss programs.
Picket beauty pageants. Don't accept the argument that pageants provide scholarships for women—scholarships should be given for academic merit and economic need, not for how a woman looks in a bathing suit and high heels.
Organize an International No-Diet Day Action (May 6th every year). Participants wear light-blue ribbons.
Have an action where you either throw away or burn the following items: bathroom scales, diet books, tapes or videos, calorie counters, tape measurers, make-up, high heels, one-size-fits-all clothing, advertising that objectifies women, etc.
Picket "men's clubs," Hooters or any business that exploits women's bodies.
Conduct a media watch. Activists from different groups can put together a media watch. Divide TV shows by channel and assign different shows to members. Ask them to write down the shows (and commercials) that objectify women's bodies. Bring examples to meetings and write to the marketing director of the companies involved.
Cancel magazine subscriptions when offensive advertisements are run; tell them why.
Lobby the Food and Drug Administration to control diet drugs and the diet industry.
Have programs or Consciousness Raising sessions on the issue. These programs can also be held at state, regional and national conferences. Emphasis should be on moving toward an action agenda. The Redefining Liberation video provided to all NOW chapters can be used as a starting point for discussions.
Picket shoe manufacturers and shoe stores. The American Podiatrist Association estimates that one in five American women will have to have operations on our feet because of the poorly-designed shoes we are encouraged to buy and wear (e.g. high heels and extremely narrow, pointed toes).
Picket "large" size women's clothing stores that actually don't carry sizes above those of regular department stores, won't use large models, and won't respond after you've expressed your complaints.
Fight accessibility problems. Large-sized people are discriminated against because of seating in restaurants and theaters, on airplanes and other forms of public transportation, and because of turnstiles that prohibit access. If you are an "average-sized" person, your advocacy on this issue will more likely result in change; fat people's complaints are often met with insults and hostility.
Make sure that seating at your organization/association meetings, state, and regional conferences does not discriminate. Large-sized people need sturdy chairs without arms that do not sit too close to the ground. If a large-sized woman comes to your chapter meeting and is uncomfortable, she is unlikely to come back. And she could be a great activist because she knows what it's like to encounter daily discrimination.
Make sure your local university/college does not discriminate by having inaccessible seating. A woman of size may not be able to attend college because there is not a single chair in an entire building that will accommodate her. (They are all student desks with attached arm and desk area—the same size used in elementary schools.)
Make sure there are programs in schools that teach tolerance and non-violence and that they include teaching that fat kids should not be harassed. Currently, several school systems actually have programs that are supposed to teach healthy eating, but actually reenforce stereotypes and discrimination. Two states have programs that send letters home to parents to tell them that their child is too fat!
Challenge attitudes; challenge fat jokes.
Stop dieting; avoid participating in the diet culture. This does not preclude striving to eat healthy foods, but dieting solely to lose weight can be very unhealthy and, for many, is futile. Healthy eating and dieting are definitely not the same.