Love handles, stretch marks, hip dips, thigh gaps, pot bellies…Kitty Underhill joins FLP to challenge the discourse that creates our perceptions of bodily ‘flaws’.
CLASS DESCRIPTION
In the cultural zeitgeist, our bodies are problematised. They are made to shrink, criticised for changing (especially for putting on weight), and naturally occurring parts of our bodies are deemed something to correct. Love handles, stretch marks, hip dips, thigh gaps, pot bellies…if there’s a catchy name for it, there’s a marketing campaign telling you to hate it, and a method to eliminate them.
This lecture uses a sociological lens to explore the ways in which bodies have been demonised and the discourse that creates our perceptions of bodily ‘flaws’. As we step into a new age where we’re now challenging the questionable narratives being given to us and are, through the new wave of body acceptance movements, learning to ‘love our flaws’, this lecture provides an alternate perspective: who, or what, taught us that our bodies were flawed in the first place?
ABOUT OUR LECTURER
Kitty Underhill (pronouns she/her) adores bodies; so much so that she’s made it her professional and personal mission to change the way we relate to ourselves and our bodies and help people to create more self compassionate, liberating narratives. She is a model, speaker and body and self acceptance coach who uses coaching, advocacy work and educating via her online platform to promote self exploration, media literacy and self love.
INSTAGRAM: @kittyunderhillx
WEBSITE: www.embodyingyou.co
UPCOMING SESSIONS WITH THE FEMINIST LECTURE PROGRAM
Monday 16th September
Kitty Underhill (she/her)
Where do Flaws Come From?: Bellies, Bodies and the Social Construction of Imperfection
Monday 23rd September
N.A. Kimber (she/her) and K.E. Donoghue-Stanford (she/her)
Death and the Maiden: Femininity in the Gothic
Monday 30th September
Carolina Hades (she/her)
Pole Dancing Against the Algorithm
Monday 7th October
Janine Francois (she/they)
Black {Gendered} Space Time: From the Heavens to Outer Space
Monday 14th October
Parumveer Walia (he/him)
Staged Bodies: Performativity in Feminist Photography
Monday 21st October
Isobel Atacus (she/they)
Eva Hesse: Imagining the Unruly
Monday 28th October
Gudrun Filipska (she/her)
Feminism and Zombie Culture
Monday 4th November
Anna Titov (she/her)
Cyborgs, Transcorporeality and Volatile Bodies: Ecofeminist Theories of Embodiment
Monday 11th November
COMING SOON
Monday 18th November
Melissa Baksh (she/her)
Whitewashed? Whiteness and Femininity in Art History
Monday 25th November
Dr. Noam Yadin Evron (she/her)
Hildegard of Bingen: Mystic, Artist, Composer, Pioneer
Monday 2nd December
COMING SOON
Monday 9th December
Baylee Woodley (they/them)
Medieval Femmes: Queer Femininities in Medieval England
Monday 16th December
Summer Lee (she/her)
The Incendiary History of Red Lingerie
RECORDING
A recording of the lecture will be sent out by The Feminist Lecture Program after the event finishes, within 2 hours of the end of the class. This email will also contain any resources/reading list the lecturer shares.
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PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Everyone is welcome to join this Pay-What-You-Can class. We suggest a donation of £20, however, we understand that may not be possible for everybody. Please be honest and pay what you can afford so that we can continue to offer our sessions on a donation basis.
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