Having a Body is Hard:
A 6 week queer exploration of the joys and terrors of having a body.
Join Jessica Wilson, MS, RD and Kent Thomas, MSW in a 6 week queer exploration of the joys and terrors of having a body. Each session of Having A Body Is Hard will include facilitated learning and group discussion. (See below for weekly topics.)
You can expect:
Connecting anti-fat bias to anti-Blackness
Critiques of the ideal “health”
Queer community building
Rethinking “body image”
Sitting with discomfort
Queer shit
Group sessions will take place on Zoom 5pm - 6pm PST
Tuesdays: March 5, March 12, March 19, March 26, April 2, and April 9
Please sign up by February 27th
Cost: $150 for the series payable upfront, payable via Venmo, PayPal, Zelle.
For Group Agreements and registration please click this link
Weekly topics:
Week 1: Societal Constructions
Week 2: Moralization of Having a Body
Week 3: “Health”
Week 4: Pleasure and joy
Week 5: Eat food and see how it feels
Week 6: Queer bodies and queer spaces
About Jessica Wilson, MS, RD :
Jessica(she/her) is a dietitian who knows how hard it is to just have a body sometimes. She has worked with clients with eating disorders since 2009 and at a queer and trans serving clinic since 2022. She believes that any negative feelings we have about our bodies don’t exist in a vacuum, but are a result of societal constructs. She works to reduce the ways we think of our bodies as projects and problems that need a solution. She lives in Sacramento, CA with her spouse and 2 ridiculous dogs.
About Kent Thomas, MSW:
Kent(he/him) is a social worker in the eating disorder field and cares a lot about contributing to a world where queer people can live more freely in their bodies. Much of his work focuses on the intersection of queerness and eating disorders/body distress. He co-facilitates a weekly queer peer support group through Liberating Jasper and lives in Tacoma, WA with his husband and 10-month old son.