February 22, 2023
Love Your Body Week Keynote.
Psyche Williams-Forson, University of Maryland College Park
This discussion will engage the intersections of womanness, blackness, fatness, and wholeness to consider different definitions of health and personal agency. Creating healthy bodies requires a redefinition of the food stories that define African American culture. And it requires that we push back against acts that demonize and degrade the foods that help communities “to keep on keepin’ on.” Redefining and pushing back is part of the work that helps to heal bodies as well as minds. Healing occurs when we consider the whole person—the cultural, spiritual, biomedical, economic, and social being and when we allow people to live lives that empower and strengthen them without shame or fear of being shamed.
The event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the Women's & Gender Resource Center, and the departments of women's, gender & sexuality studies; American studies, Africana studies, anthropology and the food studies program..
For more information visit https://www.clarkeforum.org/wednesday-february-22-2023/
Further information
- Location:
- Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Cost: Free