Lesley Kinzel

Two Whole Cakes:
How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body

Friday, April 20 @ 7:00PM
Harvard Book Store
1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge

With the “war on obesity” shining a spotlight on the prevalence of fatness, our culture has become acutely critical of big sizes and the women who wear them. But are all fat people unhealthy? Should everyone be concerned about their BMI? Is it okay to eat what you want, and declare your body off limits to public critique? In her new book Two Whole Cakes, Lesley Kinzel says no to diet fads and pills, shows by example how to stop hating your body, and celebrates the possibilities of fat acceptance and smart fashion at any size.

Lesley Kinzel, who co-founded and moderated the blog Fatshionista, is an online celebrity in the communities of size acceptance, fashion, and women’s issues. She now has her own popular blog on body politics in the media, Two Whole Cakes, which gets seventy thousand hits per month. An associate editor of xoJane, Kinzel has become the go-to fatty for all things fat fashion and fat pop culture, and has been quoted on NPR, ABC News, CNN, the Guardian, the Boston Globe, the New York Post and the New York Times.

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Write to Change the World

Saturday, June 16
10AM – 5PM
Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston

The op-ed pages and commentary forums of top media outlets – whether print, online, or broadcast – are followed by diplomats, businesspeople, scholars, and those in the highest levels of government. They feed all other media and drive thought leadership in America. They can sway public opinion and change the world. And they are open to those without publishing experience.

This seminar by the legendary OpEd Project will push you to think more carefully and more expansively about your knowledge, your ideas, and the causes you care about, and write about them to make a difference. We will explore the source of credibility and how to establish it; the patterns and elements of a powerful argument; the difference between being “right” and being effective; how to preach beyond the choir, how to think bigger about what you know, and how to make a bigger impact on the world. This seminar is about much more than writing op-eds–it’s about thought leadership in concrete terms. It is about empowering you to find your voice and make a difference, and it is about the collective impact we can all make by doing so.

Hosted by our friends at the Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change. Click here to register, and here for scholarship info.