A project dedicated to holding space and bringing
a more compassionate lens to disordered eating in the queer community.
a more compassionate lens to disordered eating in the queer community.
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Featuring uplifting narrative films Wicked Bodies stimulates conversation to challenge and disrupt rigid body ideals, improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.
The Wicked Bodies Toolkit will be available 2025
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Wicked Bodies gives 2SLGBTQIA+ voices the mic Providing a resource for engaging with the 2SLGBTQIA+ community with compassion and cultural humility, the Wicked Bodies Toolkit presents lived experiences of a diverse range of 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals navigating socio-cultural pressures, gender expectations and peer-based ideals around body weight and shape.
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In my twenty years in the field, I have never seen a resource like this before. I cannot underscore the importance of this work. |
Through uplifting narrative short films and educational resource guides, the Wicked Bodies Toolkit will help to reduce stigma, generate hope, and invite more open conversation among those struggling with disordered eating, eating disorders, and body dysmorphia.
Wicked Bodies is a digital resource toolkit designed to foster positive engagement in treatment and support centres, education centres, and non-profit programs working with 2SLGBTQIA+ groups with disordered eating, eating disorders, and body dysmorphia. The Wicked Bodies tools and resources speak to the need to have tailor-made responses for 2SLGBTQIA+ community members in relation to these topics as traditionally their specific needs have not been properly or fully addressed.
Dr Phillip Joy’s research shows that insufficient time is spent training health professionals in university programs to effectively understand the unique experiences of 2SLGBTQIA+ people and their health. Common barriers include a lack of culturally safer and structurally competent engagement in treatment, pressure to fit within narrow socially constructed body standards, and lack of supports from family and friends. In our personal communications with our partners it was determined that there is a lack of resources to use with their 2SLGBTQIA+ clients.
Featuring first-person subject profile videos, Wicked Bodies presents lived experiences of a diverse range of 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals navigating socio-cultural pressures, gender expectations and peer-based ideals around body weight and shape. Wicked Bodies provides clinicians the resources to engage their clients with cultural competency, and is a reference for culturally appropriate 2SLGBTQIA+ engagement when training the next generation of healthcare workers.
Wicked Bodies is a digital resource toolkit designed to foster positive engagement in treatment and support centres, education centres, and non-profit programs working with 2SLGBTQIA+ groups with disordered eating, eating disorders, and body dysmorphia. The Wicked Bodies tools and resources speak to the need to have tailor-made responses for 2SLGBTQIA+ community members in relation to these topics as traditionally their specific needs have not been properly or fully addressed.
Dr Phillip Joy’s research shows that insufficient time is spent training health professionals in university programs to effectively understand the unique experiences of 2SLGBTQIA+ people and their health. Common barriers include a lack of culturally safer and structurally competent engagement in treatment, pressure to fit within narrow socially constructed body standards, and lack of supports from family and friends. In our personal communications with our partners it was determined that there is a lack of resources to use with their 2SLGBTQIA+ clients.
Featuring first-person subject profile videos, Wicked Bodies presents lived experiences of a diverse range of 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals navigating socio-cultural pressures, gender expectations and peer-based ideals around body weight and shape. Wicked Bodies provides clinicians the resources to engage their clients with cultural competency, and is a reference for culturally appropriate 2SLGBTQIA+ engagement when training the next generation of healthcare workers.
