Saturday, April 21, 12-2:30PM, College Hall 110
BMC’s Dharmic Students Association and South Asian Students group are hosting a lunch and workshop with Sonalee Rashatwar (she/they), an award-winning social worker, sex therapist, professor, and grassroots organizer based in New Jersey! They are a fat queer disabled nonbinary femme therapist specializing in treating sexual trauma, body image issues, and racial or immigrant identity issues, while offering weight-neutral sexual healthcare.
Sonalee proposes recentering of body image issues around the most marginalized starting with race, documentation status, and disability. Together they hope to explore concrete ways to reorient our understandings of body image issues and body liberation around marginalized populations of color, uncover unintentional biases about “good healthy” bodies in our language and behavior, and remind ourselves why we always need to be holding systems of power (like science and medicine) accountable.
The first half of this event will be open to all students. After lunch and a Q+A, the event will be open only to students that identify with South Asia and its diaspora including Indo-Caribbean communities.
To learn more, please visit the event’s Facebook page.