Images uses Love Your Body Week to promote positive body image
Last week was Love Your Body Week, sponsored by Images, a student organization that focuses on empowering women and promoting a positive body image.
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Last week was Love Your Body Week, sponsored by Images, a student organization that focuses on empowering women and promoting a positive body image.
IMAGES, the University of Richmond's student organization that promotes positive body image, is hosting its fifth-annual Love Your Body Week March 19-23.
In light of Love Your Body Week at the University of Richmond, National Eating Disorder Awareness Week later this month and personal experience, I feel compelled to respond to Kiara Lee's last column, "Too thin: Read this before you vanish into thin air."
I have to side with Carmody on this one in saying that Lee's editorial is repulsive, not so much for her rudeness towards an uncomfortable topic, but for her pure ignorance of the bigger issue -- the pervasiveness of mental illness on campus including eating disorders (which are not contingent only to "5-foot-7 and 100 pound" girls, but affect both men and women of varying sizes and personalities) but also notably depression and chronic anxiety.
Images is bringing Love Your Body Week to Richmond from March 23 to 27, which will include several self-esteem campaign events in the Heilman Dining Hall and the Tyler Haynes Commons and a documentary on America's obsession with appearance.
Ron George spoke Wednesday night at the Jepson Alumni Center about his daughter's battle with anorexia and bulimia, which led to her death. George's speech was part of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.