3 episodios
Natter with your Sabbs Newcastle University Students' Union
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- Economía y empresa
The pandemic turned life upside down, but at centre stage is the vessels that have taken us through it all: our bodies.
With Eating Disorders on a sharp rise, ‘New Year, new me’ rhetoric is adding to the existing pressures of lockdown, and with a socially-distanced Valentine’s Day on the way, Feel yourself February aims to spread counter-messages of self love and body acceptance, address taboo topics head-on and support those struggling.
Led by Ella Williams (Editor of the Courier) and Nadia Ahmed (Welfare and Equality Officer), the programme is the first of its kind at NUSU
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Body Image and Masculinity
Nadia and Ella talk to NSR station manager and Courier sub-editor Dom Lee to discuss how body image interacts with masculinity. They talk incels, Jordamn Peterson, the male gaze and the way that locker room talk" can negatively affect men just as it can other genders.
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Body Image and Disability
Nadia and Ella speak to Daniel Jones, a PHD student with Tourette’s syndrome, to discuss how this disability interacts with his body image. The discussion centres around how Tourette’s can affect one’s sense of control, how he manages tics in a world of face masks and social distancing and the wider representation of disability within the body positivity movement.
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Intro to Body Positivity
Ella and Nadia delve in to the history of the Body Positivity movement, from women against tight corsets in the Victorian Reform movement to fat liberation protests in the 60s, all the way up to the social media movement we know today. They speak about their own journeys with body image and introduce some of the questions the campaign seeks to explore in future episodes!