PRESENTATION: Eating Disorders and Identity: Gender, Sexuality, and Size
In William Hornby's speech Eating Disorder and Identity: Gender, Sexuality, and Size he and his audience explore the impacts gender, sexuality, and body size have on eating disorder development through social, systemic, and medical lenses. A person's gender, sexuality, and body have tremendous impacts on the ways they are socialized and treated systemically, and environmental factors such as those have a significant impact on eating disorder development.
Learning Objectives:
1. Gain a deeper understanding of the nuances of social, systemic, and medical identity-based environmental factors.
2. Examine the role morality plays in eating disorder development.
3. Learn how to combat the development of eating disorders due to these social and systemic factors.
4. Learn how to identify identity-based discrimination and harmful habits within themselves and others.