CURRENT RESEARCH
|
A Transdisciplinary Exploration of the Need for Weight Neutrality in Health & Fitness SpacesJodiAnn Stevenson is currently a student in the Transformative Studies doctoral program at California Institute of Integral Studies. She completed her doctoral coursework and comprehensive exams in May of 2023 and is now working toward completing her dissertation proposal in order to move into doctoral candidacy.
Stevenson's field of research is situated within and through public health policy around the policing of body size, the intersections of fat studies and health studies, medical sociology, and somatic psychology. Her theoretical work is grounded in Intersectional Pragmatic Feminist Utopianism just as her practical work is grounded in Womanism. |
Difficult to Modify: A Polyvocal Poetic Inquiry
exploring weight stigma in health & fitness spaces
|
|
This video provides a roughly 8-minute audio performance of the final product of a pilot study completed for JodiAnn's doctoral-level Integral Research class in the Fall of 2022 at California Institute of Integral Studies. There are no images shown during this performance -- it is strictly audio.
Following the performance, this video contains a narrated slide presentation that provides an outline and brief synopsis of the pilot study as well as JodiAnn's plans to widen the scope of this work while completing her dissertation. |
Conferences where this work has been -- or will be -- shared:
- London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research's International Conference on Poetry Studies. London, England; March 2023.
- London Arts Based Research Center's Women Who Create: The Feminine in the Arts. Cambridge, England; March 2023.
- The 9th International Weight Stigma Conference. Denver, Colorado; June 2023.
- International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry. Auckland, New Zealand; October, 2024.
Poster Presentation from The 9th International Weight Stigma Conference in Denver, Colorado; June, 2023:
|
Guest blogs for Head & Heart Therapeutic Solutions:
|
Articles written for Families First Monthly; Traverse City, MI:
|
Organizations whose work makes this inquiry possible:
- Please visit these websites, become a member and/or give as generously as you can to these organizations who are doing the heavy lifting of bringing body liberation to health and fitness spaces -- and everywhere else!
|
|