by Connie Sobczak | Mar 21, 2017 | Stories
The Importance of Inclusive Language and How Being in Community Helps Us Learn posted by Connie Sobczak / March 21, 2017 In a PowerPoint slide I used to conclude my recent talk at the Circles of Change conference, I shared a photo of two girls I met at the Washington,...
by Connie Sobczak | Nov 3, 2016 | Stories
Self-love and listening to body wisdom: The elevator episode posted by Connie Sobczak / November 3, 2016 Last year, I did a fair amount of traveling for the trainings and talks I conducted around the country. During one of these trips, an experience occurred that I...
by The Body Positive | Sep 29, 2016 | Stories
Activism In Action: Cafe Edition posted by Naomi Finkelstein / September 29, 2016 I’m sitting in a coffee shop doing work, and a bubbly man comes in. I overhear his conversation with the shop owner: “Can I have a donut please?” “Sure thing.” “I really want four, but...
by Connie Sobczak | Sep 12, 2016 | Stories
A Dedication for My Sister: Today, You Would Have Been 60 posted by Connie Sobczak / September 12, 2016 Today is my sister Stephanie’s birthday. She would have turned sixty years old. I say, “would have” because she died more than two decades ago at the age of...
by The Body Positive | Aug 8, 2016 | Stories
When Facing Micro-Aggressions, Community Matters posted by Naomi Finkelstein / August 8, 2016 I just came back to the Bay Area after a month-long vacation in my hometown where I got to relax, rejuvenate, and spend quality time with my family and friends. While it was...
by The Body Positive | Jul 9, 2016 | Stories
Turning to Self-Love in Times of Tragedy posted by Jessica Diaz France / July 9, 2016 It seems that every day the world feels the reverberation of another tragedy. Gun violence, race relations, war, changes in the economy, poverty, inequality, gender gap…the list...
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