I am really getting excited about what we are doing for our girls on UCF days and in particular on the Body Workshop day. While it took us awhile to get things going I think that we really are on a role now!
I am personally excited and proud of the ideas that we have created for the Body Workshop day. The flow of our day really is going to focus on giving the girls a different way to talk about their body, a different dialogue. Obviously, as young girls we/they are taught to focus on the aesthetics of the body, what it looks like, what size it is, and most importantly what problems it has. The essence of the BODY PROJECT. For the workshop we are going to direct the girls, through a fun project, to talk about the way that their bodies actually work, what they do, how they connect to the world with them and through them.
Our text, mainly the Body Project, discusses the different courses that different eras have taken to "deal" with and "teach" young girls about their bodies. Most of the conversations ended in either there being a need to buy something, the limitations of what the female body can/should do, but mainly the need to fix them. We are really trying to focus on the endless amounts of things that the body can do and allows us to do.
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