Staying Sane #RealDeal Style
June 30, 2018 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Activism, Advocacy, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Healthy Communication, LGBT, Livin in the Moment, Loving Your Body, Media Literacy, Recovery, Role Models, Self-Acceptance, Sharing Feelings, Social Justice, Wellness
With all that is happening around us politically, socially and environmentally, we need some serious strategies for staying sane, #RealDeal style. Below is a Top 5 list … but we’d love you to add your additions in the comments. In solidarity, Robyn Hussa Farrell, Editor #RealDeal Top 5 Pics for Staying Sane this Summer #1. […]
bell hooks cares about black girls
May 21, 2018 by Angela Mensah
Filed under Body Image, Featured
#RealDeal repost of this 2014 gem… I was so delighted to hear bell hooks say that she would not have a daughter of hers watch 12 years a slave because of the imagery during a 3 part lecture series with The New School. Lately, I resist watching movies and television shows that simply remind me […]
Socially Constructed
February 27, 2015 by Angela Mensah
Filed under Body Image
The late Stuart Hall explained how race is a “floating signifier” which means that it travels across time and space and is dependent upon the historical, geographical, political and cultural landscape that it rests itself upon. In this time, space and location; I still ponder on bell hooks and her lesson to me as a […]
Media Literacy, African American Women and HAES
July 7, 2012 by Angela Mensah
Filed under Activism, Body Image, Empowerment, Fat Acceptance, Featured, Finding Your Voice, HAES, Loving Your Body, Media Literacy, Obesity, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Weight Stigma
Greetings and Salutations, My name is Dr. Angela Prater-Mensah and my PhD is in Communication Studies with a focus on Media. I was invited to join We Are the Real Deal Blog after speaking at BEDA’s National Binge eating conference. My educational background, life path and struggle with body image and disordered eating will inform […]
