NOTE: this event took place in spring 2021, but we are working on another version for later this year, check back for updates, or sign up for my newsletter or Virgie’s!
Virgie Tovar and Sarah Fontaine invite you to a three part conversation on raising children within a society steeped in diet culture. We'll discuss how we might avoid contributing to our children developing disordered eating, and support them in eating and being in their bodies with joy, toward thriving.
This conversation is grounded in anti-diet principles (http://heathercaplan.com/nutrition/what-is-an-anti-diet-dietitian/) and a celebration of all foods and all bodies with a commitment to positivity for larger bodied kids and parents.
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February 27 - Week 1: The Non-Rules of Food-Positive Parenting with guest speaker, Dr. Jennifer Brady
We introduce each other as well as concepts that are central to the series, like diet culture, weight neutrality, body positivity and fat positivity. We welcome guest speaker Dr. Jennifer Brady, Assistant Professor of Applied Nutrition and mom, who will share her strategies and thoughts on food positive parenting.
March 6 - Week 2: Trusting Our Bodies & Eating for Fun
We talk about losing our sense of self-trust around food and how to regain it through reframing the “goal” of food from health & weight-control to fun, intimacy and comfort. As we regain this self-trust we support our children in maintaining / regaining their own self-trust.
March 13 - Week 3: Advocating for Food Positivity at the Pediatrician, at School and in Community
We’ll talk about developing a toolkit for self-advocacy away from our dinner tables at home.
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(All events will be recorded and replay will be available for 7 days for anyone who purchases a ticket. You will receive the zoom link in your confirmation email for each event!)
Virgie Tovar is the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat (Feminist Press August 2018), which was placed on the American Library Association's Amelia Bloomer List, and The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color (New Harbinger Publications 2020). Her podcast, Rebel Eaters Club (produced by Transmitter Media), celebrates the motto, "All bodies are good. All food is good." She has received Yale's Poynter Fellowship in Journalism and has been featured by the New York Times, Self, Health.com, BBC, MTV, Al Jazeera, NPR, and Yahoo Health. She is a Taurus who lives in San Francisco.
Sarah Fontaine is an astrologer, writer, long time teacher and new parent. Her teaching has included a preschool she ran in her house, high school classrooms of San Francisco and undergraduate wilderness education programs. In teaching and parenting she's especially focused on reducing the ageism that distorts how we understand children and therefore how we treat them. She has taught on writing, astrology, kayaking, food and water systems of California, and other subjects. Her current work foregrounds contemplative practice and astrology for healing and connecting with others. Sarah offers astrology readings, with an emphasis on relationships, including parent/child. She writes and teaches workshops on the relationships between spirituality, embodiment, whiteness, love, parenting, politics and freedom. Learn more at existingtogether.com.
Jennifer Brady is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Human Nutrition at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Jennifer talks about blending nutrition, women's studies, and critical perspectives. She's definitely a dietitian who "rocks the boat!"
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