Talks

Here are four of my talks. I adjust presentations for each audience and develop new talks for specific events. Click for descriptions...

• The Real F-Word: Fighting Weight Bias During the 'War on Obesity'

          An interactive intro to weight diversity and Health At Every Size®.

• Pleasure or Punishment? — Health At Every Size® vs. Weight Goals

          Reconnects people with sustainable motivation for the good life.

• ThighDentity Politics: Fat Studies, Intersectionality & Weight Stigma

          Current academic and social justice perspectives on weight.

• What do you YAY? — Attitudes & info for young people of all sizes

          Prepares youth of all ages to navigate weight pressures.

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Talks on college campuses

• Cal State Fresno
• Cal State San Bernardino
  

• Chico State
  
• CU-Boulder
• Dickinson College, Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues
  
• Fordham College
• Grinnell College
• Hampshire College
• Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
• Lewis & Clark College
  
• Montclair State University
• Pitzer College
  
• Ramapo College
• San Francisco City College
• Santa Clara University
• Sierra College
• St. Mary's College January Term Speaker Series
  
• UC-Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law (Ruth Chance lecture series)
• UCLA
• UC-Santa Cruz (twice)
• University of Michigan
• University of Northern Iowa
• University of Oklahoma (Honors College annual lecture series)
• University of Pittsburgh (second annual size acceptance lecture)
  
• UT-Austin (twice)
• University of Utah, Salt Lake Community College, and
  
• Washington State University
• Wellesley College
  
• Wilfred Laurier University
• York College of Pennsylvania

UCLA Center for the Study of Women, annual Gender and Body Size
lecture series: "Fighting Fat Fear During the 'War on Obesity'" (2010)

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Workplace trainings

• Chevron (twice)
• Homobiles
• Kailo Wellness Program, Mercy Medical Center North Iowa
  
• Macy's - Northern Californa (twice)
• State Bar of California regional meeting of corporate attorneys

Workshops

Girls Raks summer camp.

Yay! Scale™ DIY workshops: 

• About Face
• Girls Raks Bellydance and Body Image Program
• Santa Clara University's Feminists United student group
• University of Oklahoma
• Wilfred Laurier University
  

Body painting for weight liberation workshop:

• Abundia retreat
• NAAFA conventions
• NOLOSE conferences

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Talks on video

Sierra College campus talk. (2010)

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UC-Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, Thelton E. Henderson Center for
Social Justice, Ruth Chance lecture (with Sondra Solovay, JD). (2010)

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Sarah Lawrence college, keynote talk, 13th annual Women's History
Month conference, "Breaking Boundaries: Body Politics & the Dynamics
of Difference." (2011)

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Video of 2009 talk at Dickinson College. 

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Erasing the fat/thin divide during Speed Anthropology exercise. Photo by Kelly Varner.

Keynote talks

• Sarah Lawrence College, Women's History department annual conference. "Breaking Boundaries: Body Politics & the Dynamics of Difference." (2011)
• Abundia retreat (2008)

• "Fat Is Contagious" conference (2008)

• Columbia Teachers College, "Fat Attitudes" conference (2004)
• Young Women's Health Day, Santa Cruz, California (2003)
• NOLOSE conference (2002)
  
• Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics SCAN conference (Sports, Cardiovascular Health & Nutrition), with Pat Lyons, RN (1999)

Conference presentations

• A Fatty Affair (2012)
• Legal Studies Association conference, fat legal studies panel (2011)
• Women's Therapy Center, "On Fear of Fat: Clinical & Social Implications," (2011)

• "Fat Politics & Sexuality: the Face of Hate," panel moderator (2010)
  
• American Studies Association conference, fat studies panel (2007)
• Popular Culture Association conference, fat studies panel (2006)

• "Fat and The Academy" conference, Smith College (2006)
• Association for the Study of Food & Society, fat studies panel (2005)
• National Wellness Institute (2005)
• UC-Berkeley Women's Right Conference (2005)

• Fat Girl Speaks, emcee (2004)
• LadyFest Bay Area (2002)
• International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (~2000)
  
• Diversity Day, Cal State University-San Bernadino (2000)
  
• UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health "Obesity and Women: From the Bench to the Bedside and Beyond" (1999)
• National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (several)
• NOLOSE (several)
  

A 7th grade student's weight diversity poster.

Talks for youth

7th grade. Photo by Dana Rosenberg.

In California:

• Gardena High School
• Girl Scouts of America of Santa Clara County
• Girls For A Change, San Jose
• Lowell High School, San Francisco
• Maybeck High School, Berkeley
• Oakland High School
• San Lorenzo High School
• Westmoor High School, Daly City
• Windrush School, Oakland
• Young Women's Health Conference, San Francisco

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Talks in college classrooms

With Megan Seely at Sierra College.

• Cal State University-Fresno: intro to women's studies
• Dickinson College: fat studies
• Mills College: Sex Positive Fair
• San Francisco City College: introduction to nutrition; psychology of food, eating, and weight
• an Francisco State University: women and sports, women's health
• San Jose State University, sociology

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• Santa Clara University: women's studies seminar
• Sonoma State University
  
• St. Mary's College: health psychology
• Stanford University: eating disorders prevention; obesity and health
• UC-Berkeley: FemSex, Berkeley NOW, 
• UC-Santa Cruz: health policy, women's center, politics of obesity
• University of Michigan: women's health
• University of San Francisco: sport & the body

Talk posters & photos

Dickinson College talk poster. (2009)

Chico State talk poster. (2012)

"Fat Politics & Sexuality" panel, NYC (2010) Photo by Dot Goldberg.