Body Activism

from The-F-Word.org, a group of University of Texas psychologists started a unique program to help curb eating disorders in teen girls:

The program, which started in 2001 and involves more than 1,000 high school and college students, works by getting girls to understand how they’ve bought into and been sold on the thin ideal. The teens write essays and role-play with their peers and are encouraged to come up with and execute small, nonviolent acts challenging the thin quo like slipping notes saying “Love your body the way it is” into dieting books at local bookstores and writing letters to Mattel, makers of the impossibly proportioned Barbie doll. They also write and post notes in their school bathrooms with messages like “You are beautiful” and “Be yourself.”

I am going to totally start doing this, stealing a pack of post-its from work tomorrow.