Love Your Body week is an annual event on Dickinson’s campus that aims to encourage everyone to love their bodies and decrease fat stigma. This week is co-sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Resource Center, the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues, Psychology Club, PALS, the departments of women’s, gender & sexuality studies, psychology and theatre & dance, Office of LGBTQ Services, Popel Shaw Center for Race and Ethnicity, President’s Commission on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, the Wellness Center, Waidner-Spahr Library and Psi Chi. Every year, Love Your Body sponsors on-campus events such as yoga, workshops and keynote speakers.
The keynote speaker for Love Your Body week 2017 is Sonya Renee Taylor. Taylor is the founder of The Body is Not an Apology Movement. She is also an author, poet, spoken word artist, speaker, activist and educator.
Below is a list of events for Love Your Body week this year:
Monday, February 20: Kickoff Soiree at 7 PM in the Social Hall
Tuesday, February 21: Yoga for Every Body at 12 PM in the HUB Dance Studio
Tuesday, February 21: Trans Salon at 5 PM in Allison Community Room
Wednesday, February 22: Dickinson Rising: Live at the Library at 12 PM in the Waidner-Spahr Library
Thursday, February 23: Let’s Eat Dinner at 5 PM in the Social Hall
Thursday, February 23: Your Body is Not an Apology Keynote Speaker: Sonya Renee Taylor at 7 PM in ATS
Friday, February 24: “Fat Chance” Article Discussion led by Professor Amy Farrell at 12 PM in Althouse 106
Friday, February 24: 10 Tools for Radical Self Love with Sonya Renee Taylor at 4:30 PM in Allison Community Room
Be sure to RSVP to these events on Love Your Body’s Facebook Page. HC Dickinson hopes to see you at the Kickoff Soiree on Monday!