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Body Acceptance Week works to inform, provide resources on eating disorders and body image

March 5, 2023

Content Warning: This article contains mentions of eating disorders and body dysmorphia.  Northwestern’s Body Acceptance Week, which ran from Feb. 27 to March 4, offered NU community members a combination...

A board set up at Norris University Center for Body Acceptance Week, where students can share their body image stories. When talking about body images, Weinberg first-year Alicia Jones said it is also important to challenge racial ideals of beauty.

For Body Acceptance Week, students demand acknowledgment of all forms of beauty

February 28, 2019

Northwestern students and staff said they appreciate the Counseling and Psychological Services-sponsored Body Acceptance Week, but challenged the movement to be more intersectional. Body Acceptance...

New group of students participates in walk to raise awareness of eating disorders

October 15, 2017

Cats with Confidence, a new group of students that promotes body positivity and fights eating disorders, participated Sunday in a Chicago walk to raise funds for reducing stigma. Co-founder Courtney...

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