Amy Candido lives in recovery from eating disorders
The beginning of February marks the launch of the Provincial Eating Disorders Awareness (PEDAW) campaign and National Eating Disorder Awareness Week (Feb. 3-9, 2013).
PEDAW coordinator Amy Candido has a passion for prevention, after being tortured for years by her own eating disorder. Amy’s eating disorder began in grade eight and continued until her mid twenties. “I was existing, not living,” she says. (more…)
Loving our bodies and ourselves is the focus of eating disorders prevention efforts
The Provincial Eating Disorders Awareness (PEDAW) campaign is launched the first full week in February with activities and events taking place throughout the year. It’s a British Columbia province-wide effort to raise awareness around prevention and early intervention of eating disorders as well as media literacy, resiliency, building healthy body image and self-esteem.
You are invited to take part in supporting the ongoing Love Our Bodies, Love Ourselves movement in promoting health and preventing disordered eating and eating disorders. (more…)
Men and women attending a workshop about gender-based violence emerge with a focus on working together for change
Jackson Katz is a social theorist, educator, anti-sexism activist and a major advocate of the ‘bystander approach’ to gender violence and bullying prevention. Instead of focusing on women as victims and men as perpetrators of harassment, abuse or violence, the bystander approach concentrates on the role of peers in schools, groups, teams, workplaces and other social units. [source: Wikipedia] (more…)
Author and educator Jackson Katz advocates the ‘bystander approach’ to sexual and domestic violence prevention
Jackson Katz is a social theorist, educator, and anti-sexism activist who says that gendered understandings and behaviour are heavily influenced by media and popular culture. Katz is a major advocate of the ‘bystander approach’ to gender violence and bullying prevention. (more…)
The federal government had argued that the individuals and non-profit groups involved had no right to bring the case to court
A court case was launched in British Columbia in 2008 by an organization of sex workers and one former sex worker challenging the constitutionality of Criminal Code provisions dealing with adult prostitution. That case was dismissed by the B.C. Supreme Court in part because the trial judge found that the group did not have “public interest standing” to bring the case to court. The decision was overturned, but the federal government then appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada. (more…)
Cory Silverberg is committed to the work of having thoughtful, accessible, and open conversations about sexuality
A reality TV series called “Push Girls” is bringing an unfettered, uncensored glimpse at what it means to be sexy, ambitious and living with paralysis in Hollywood. The series follows four “attractive women navigating their friendships, relationships, and careers with a dose of producer-injected drama.” Tiphany Adams declares, in the show’s premiere episode: “Yes, I can have sex…lots and lots of sex.” (more…)
