The first webinar in our series Diversifying Dietetics.
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In this talk, which is a shortened version of one at the International Congress of Nutrition and Dietetics 2024, Lucy shares some ideas for helping people who feel stuck in their relationship with food, and supporting professionals to integrate social factors. In this context, 'queering' involves first, identifying the drive to create binary categories, such as healthy/unhealthy, white/black. Second, understanding how this supports interconnected oppressions. Third, figuring out how to respond from an ethics of reckoning, care, and repair. A key point is that this is collective work that we are each called to engage in responsibly according to our positionality. They gratefully acknowledge the long cross-pollinating lineages of fat, Black, feminist, trans, and Indigenous scholarship that shapes their work.
Speaker
Lucy Aphramor (they/them) is a queer Quaker, radical dietitian and performance poet . They are interested in collectively reimagining the stories we live out around food, bodies, and health, to develop liberatory alternatives. This involves thinking beyond binaries of healthy/unhealthy, good/bad, human/nonhuman and ensuring trauma, colonialism, and oppression are accounted for across dietetic practice.
Lucy has been pleased to contribute to knowledge creation through serving on EFAD Public Health, as a Size Awareness Consultant for the Welsh Assembly Government, co-founder of World Critical Dietetics and a member of the Food Ethics Council. They have won professional, NHS, and charity awards including being nominated to the BDA Roll of Honour and receiving the BDA Rose Simmonds Award for their work around equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). They currently work part-time in an EDI role and as a consultant and trainer.
Cost
- BDA members attend for free
- Non BDA members £50.00
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