Body Respect Week Learning Library

Books

• Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
• A Hunger so Wide and so Deep by Becky Thompson
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
• So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Radical Belonging by Lindo Bacon
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Calling My Spirit Back by Elaine Alec
• My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
• I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
• How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

Podcasts

• Seen
• The Solidarity Is This

Links, Articles, & Websites

• Body Image
• Every Body is Different
• Positive Body Image
• Your Fat Friend
• National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance

Books

• The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
• What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
• Happy Fat by Sofie Hagen
• Landwhale by Jes Baker
• You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar

Podcast

• Maintenance Phase by Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes

Webinars

• Fat Liberation Month

What is HAES: Health at Every Size?

• Celebrates body diversity
• Honors differences in size, age, race, ethnicity, gender, dis/ability, sexual orientation, religion, class, and other human attributes
• Challenges scientific and cultural assumptions
• Values body knowledge and lived experiences
• Finding the joy in moving one’s body and being physically active
• Eating in a flexible and attuned manner that values pleasure and honors internal cues of hunger, satiety, and appetite, while respecting the social conditions that frame eating options

Videos

• Busting Myths on Health and Weight with Linda Bacon
• HAES for health professionals and university students: Videos | HAES® Curriculum
• Diets Don’t Work: Body Respect Does
• Poodle Science

Podcasts

• Dieticians Unplugged Podcast with Aaron Flores and Glenys Oyston
• Matter of Fat Podcast
• Food Psych Podcast

Links and Websites

• What is the Health at Every Size Approach? 
• Be Nourished
• The Body is Not an Apology
• The Body Manifesto
• Health at Every Size Community
• Exploring Your Body Story

Books

• Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight, by Linda Bacon, PhD, and Lucy Aphramor, PhD, RD. (2014).
• Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon, PhD. (2008).
• Body Trust Workbook

Intuitive Eating

Intuitive eating is making peace with our relationship with food. Intuitive Eating refers both to the specific 10-principle approach as well as mindful eating and general non-diet or anti-diet resources. For more information on intuitive eating, please visit 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating.

Eating Disorders

• Eating Disorders Screening Tool
• What are eating disorders?
• COVID-19 Resources
• Virtual Recovery Support Groups

Podcasts

• Listen to Your Body Podcast
• Mindful Eating Meditations
• Food Psych
• ‎The BodyLove Project with Jessi Haggerty
• Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris: The Anti-Diet
• Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast with Tabitha Farrar

Links and Websites

• Intuitive Eating
• National Eating Disorders Association: What does Intuitive Eating Mean?
• The Center for Mindful Eating
• 5 Minute Mindful Eating Exercise

Books

• Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach), by Evelyn Tribole, M.S., Elyse Resch, M.S. (2020) + Intuitive Eating Workbook
• Intuitive Eats Mini Cookbook
• Sick Enough by Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS, FAED

Recipe Websites

• BudgetBytes

Where to Find Food on Campus

• TU Dining

Tulane Nutrition

• Meet the Dietitian

Struggling with food insecurity?

• Swipe Out Hunger
• Food for Thought Pantry
• New Orleans Community Fridges
• DSNAP

Learn more about:

• Muscle Dysmorphia
• Eating Disorders and Men
• Eating Disorders in Men and Boys
• Male Eating Disorder Awareness and Treatment

Links and Websites

• Mindful Eating
• The Monday Campaigns
• Mindfulness Muse
• Self-Compassion Exercises
• Self-Discovery Journey

Audio & Videos

• The Mindful Movement
• The Power of Mindfulness – What You Practice Grows Stronger
• How Mindfulness Changes the Emotional Life of our Brains
• Why Mindfulness is a Superpower
• How Mindfulness Empowers Us
• The Neuroscience of Mindfulness
• Guided Meditation
• Tulane Counseling Center Guided Meditations

Podcasts

• Affirmation Pod

Books

• Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn (1994).
• A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook by Bob Stahl, Elisha Goldstein (2019).

Videos

• Body Project

Links

• Decolonizing Fitness

This is a resource to use when you don’t want to be weighed at the doctor’s office and could use some support to communicate that request. Created by Radical Health Alliance, it is a PDF that you can download for free and customize for yourself.

Download the Weight Refusal Sheet.