Monday, August 17, 2015

"Big, Black and Beautiful Women: Health at Every Size Offers a New Paradigm" New Chapter

PROFESSOR WRITES ANOTHER CHAPTER 
THIS TIME IN BLACK CULTURE BOOK


Alabama State University communications professor Dr. Rev. E.K. Daufin is the author of a chapter in a new book, “Black Culture and Experience: Contemporary Issues,” published by Peter Lang Publishing.

Daufin’s chapter is “Big, Black, and Beautiful Women: Health at Every Size Offers a New Paradigm.”

The book, which will be out later this year, is about the African-American culture and other issues impacting the black community.

Daufin is a national expert about weight as well as race, gender and class in the media. Her chapter stresses that you don’t have to be thin to be healthy and that the “war on obesity” is just another war on those who are already the most stigmatized and discriminated against – predominantly African-American women.  Her chapter offers a new paradigm – HAES or Health At Every Size, which she argues is a more effective and compassionate alternative to weight loss, dieting, exercise and surgery. It encompasses self-acceptance, moving and eating for pleasure according to internal cues of hunger, satiety and appetite.

An educator, performance artist and a social activist, Daufin is the founder of Love Your Body; Love Yourself workshops. Her work has been published in several academic journals, newspapers and magazines, and she has a chapter in five other anthologies. Daufin also has been featured on radio and television programs. She is a columnist for the international nonprofit Association for Size Diversity And Health's online "HAES(R) Matters” and an officer of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s (AEJMC) Minorities And Communication Division. Daufin presented research on media and women in the “Black Power Movement” and moderated a panel on race and entertainment media this month at the AEJMC annual convention in San Francisco.

Daufin graduated from The Ohio State University where she earned her Ph.D. in mass communication and film.

Friday, January 16, 2015

ASU Professor writes chapter in new book about ‘Fat Acceptance’

Re: ASU professor writes chapter in new book about ‘Fat Acceptance’
Date: Jan.  15, 2015


ASU Professor writes chapter in new book about ‘Fat Acceptance’

Alabama State University communications professor Dr. Rev. E-K Daufin is the author of a chapter in a new book, “The Politics of Size: Perspectives from the Fat Acceptance Movement,” published by Praeger Publishers Inc.  

Daufin’s chapter is “Black Women in Fat Activism.” The book supplies readers a frank overview of the issues surrounding how to deal with the many levels of discrimination against fat people – and reframes the discussion about obesity from a "diet and weight loss industry driven medical issue" to a social and political one.

Daufin, a national expert about weight as well race, gender and class in the media, was invited by the editor of the book to write the chapter after seeing Daufin's works on the subject.  The chapter itself takes a look at what black women face as a result of weight stigma.

“Eighty to 90% of any person's weight is caused by genetics.  The reasons for the higher obesity rate for African-American women are also genetic, along with other factors including socioeconomics and the environment,” Daufin said, “But even more women of color are joining the front lines of activism in changing the indirectly racist ‘war on obesity' to the 'war on weight stigma' instead.”

Daufin said the essays in the book serve to correct misinformation about obesity and fat people that is commonly accepted by the general public, such as the idea that “fat” and “healthy” are mutually exclusive. Subject matter covered includes fat-friendly workplace policies; fat-dating experiences; and the intersections of being fat and also a person of color, a person with disabilities, a transgender person, or a member of another sub-group of society

An educator, performance artist and a social activist, Daufin is the founder of Love Your Body;Love Yourself (R) workshops. Her work has been published in several academic journals, newspapers and magazines, and she has a chapter in three other anthologies. Daufin also has been on radio and appeared on television. She is a columnist for the international non-profit Association for Size and Health Diversity's online "HAES(R) Matters." 


Daufin graduated from the Ohio State University where she earned her Ph.D. in mass communication and film.

Wednesday, January 7, 2015