Shine Bright School

This class was a great overview of the intersecting issues at play with diet culture, and the many reasons that we should all care, regardless of our own size or relationship with our bodies and diet culture. It included a nice blend of information and action items, as well as how to learn more (and who to center/learn from).

Really great session on all the ways the diet culture is harmful to the population at large. Super interesting and provocative of deeper thinking on how this pursuit of thinness came about. Highly recommend!

This class is packed full of information, thinking points, talking points and words of wisdom - however you identify there will be something in here for you. Monique and Ivy both bring different insights in unpacking the harm of diet culture and the positive actions we can take to dismantle it in ourselves and the world around us, can't recommend it enough.

This class was a great companion to the panel on the intersections of diet culture and white supremacy. I learned more about the different ways diet culture is used against Black women and white women, and how it is used to further justify a system where Black women are oppressed. I had also never consciously thought about how calling some foods "nutritious" is still a form of assigning foods different values. I like the idea of thinking about how food serves you in a particular moment.

I learned so much from this class and guest speaker Ivy Felicia. I'm so grateful to Ivy and Monique for giving me so much to think about with regards to my own relationship with food and movement and how that ties oppressing others through diet culture. By the way, this class is a great companion to Monique's "Unpacking the intersection of Race & Diet Culture" panel from a few months ago.

As always, Monique is her true, educated, hilarious self! I learned so much from taking this course and will be recommending it to many friends and family members. I appreciated Monique's points of views as well as her guest speaker. We must work together to dismantle the system of diet culture.