Projects

In addition to our work with Love Your Body Day and our spring conference, Fat and the Academy, Size Matters has several year-long projects.
Workshops | Women's Resource Center | Size-Positive Media

Workshops
Is your house interested in having a workshop on sizeism for a tea or some other event? Would your org like to come to a workshop? Are you interested in helping give workshops?

Please contact us at size@smith.edu to learn how you can schedule or be involved in a workshop. The workshop this year will be brand-new, and should be from 45-minutes to an hour, depending on the number of participants.

Women's Resource Center
Early in the year we were granted access to the Women's Resource Center, a large space in the third floor of the Davis Center. In addition to our meetings there, other orgs - like FSU and AWARE - use the space for storage, meetings and events, and we hope to have it as a reception area for the speakers at our conference - a kind of "green room" (that's actually blue :).

While the building used to be actively used, after the new Campus Center was built the space lost much of its traffic. Since the only regularly used part of the building now is the Mwangi Cultural Center on the first floor, when we discovered the WRC existed we were excited about the prospect of having a new space to meet and of reopening the Center. Unfortunately, it was in a pretty bad state of disrepair, so we've spent the year cleaning, painting, removing broken furniture and applying for funding to have carpet put in, furniture purchased and an internet line installed. The reopening will be later in this year, but for now here are the "before" pictures of the space.

Size-Positive Media
One of the goals of our org is to promote size diversity in the community, and as part of that we're including lists of size-positive books, movies and tv shows that houses can add to their house libraries or watch at house viewings. The books, movies and shows we include are listed either because they have positive or neutral (non-stereotypical) portrayals of people of different sizes, or discuss the issues relating to sizeism and size-based prejudice.

Books Movies *Also, the movie Phat Girlz, starring Mo'Nique, will be released on April 7, 2006 (but go the week after - our conference starts April 7th, and is free for Smith students!. You can view the trailer here.

Television