Visit Suzannah's eating disorder booklist on Amazon.com.
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NEDA--National Eating Disorders Association is the largest
not-for-profit organization in the United States working to prevent
eating disorders and provide treatment referrals to those suffering
from anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder and those concerned
with body image and weight issues. Be sure to check out the section on "Eating Disorders Info" for the best handouts and most up-to-date information available.
Something Fishy is the most
well-known pro-recovery website dedicated to raising awareness and
providing support to people with Eating Disorders and their loved ones
since 1995.Check out the recovery
boards, treatment finder, and memorial wall.
The
Narrative Therapy community put together this anti-Anorexia/Bulimia archive of resistance to inspire
sufferers and to remind us that the person is not the disease.You are not your eating disorder, and
you can fight back.
About-Face and GenderAds are excellent
resources for media literacy.Change
the way you look at advertising forever.
These
two sites (Digital Retouch and Greg Apodaca) and are personal sites of popular “digital retouchers” aka airbrushers. These
are the guys who make the pictures in the magazines look so abnormally
perfect.By looking at their sites,
you can see photos before and after digital retouching.Never trust a magazine image again!
Impressions is a clever website
that shows you ads and asks you to guess what they are promoting.A great way to see the disconnect
between what ads are selling and what they show.
Jean Kilbourne is the first lady
of media literacy.As her
website states, she “is internationally recognized for her pioneering work
on alcohol and tobacco advertising and the image of women in advertising.
Her films, slide lectures and television appearances have been seen by
millions of people throughout the world.”Check out her film, Killing
Us Softly as well.
AnyBody is
committed to encouraging a change in cultural attitudes towards bodies,
food and eating so that women and children of the next generation can
learn to be happy in and look
after their bodies. AnyBody
calls for a reality check, of which every and any body can
be a part.
Audrey Brashich wrote All Made Up:
A Girl’s Guide to Seeing Through Celebrity Hype and Celebrating Real
Beauty (Walker & Company), a book that explores popular
definitions of female success and beauty, demystifies confusing media
messages, and offers teens strategies for making changes.Check out her blog on this website!
Kaz Cooke
is simply hilarious as she debunks beauty myths.Read this when you want to laugh (check out
her books, too).
AdiosBarbie.com
is “a body image site for every body. No matter what your size
or background, we hope to inspire you to love your body through thick and
thin!"
Body Positive “looks at ways we can feel good in the bodies
we have.Remember your body hears
everything you think.”This site has
AWESOME handouts and tools.
gURL.com is committed to
discussing issues that affect the lives of girls in a nonjudgmental,
personal way. Through honest writing, visuals and liberal use of humor, we
try to give girls a new way of looking at subjects that are crucial to
their lives. We hope to provide connection and identification in a way
that is not possible in other media. Our content deals frankly with
sexuality, emotions, body image, etc.Check out the commix!
Respect Rx is a blog for girls and
women.Get the scoop on building
self-respect, sisterhood, and social change!
Teen Voices is about teen women
being themselves. There are enough magazines out there that tell you how
to look, how to act to impress a guy, or to buy certain products. Teen
Voices challenges the mainstream media's harmful images of girls and
women by providing an intelligent alternative. Their tagline is “Because you’re more
than just a pretty face."
Post Secret is my favorite website--an ongoing community art project in which people mail their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.
