Access and Inclusion Resources
ASPDA Access & Inclusion Committee
Adria Butler
Committee Chair
Umo Callins
Promotion & Communication
Shelly Guzman Johnson
Membership Support
Courtney Kawamoto
Promotion & Communication
Kayla Lawson
Secretary
Susana Meléndez
Outreach
HELPFUL RESOURCES
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Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat: A Story of Bulimia, Stephanie Covington Armstrong
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
The Body is Not an Apology, Sonya Renee Taylor
A Hunger So Wide and So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women's Eating Problems, Becky Thompson
Through THICK and Thin and Thick Again: A Black Woman’s Journey with BED by Nettie Reeves-Lewis
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane GaySports Nutrition Guidebook - 6th Edition - Nancy Clark
Sports Nutrition: A Handbook for Professionals - 6th Edition - Christine Rosenbloom
The Healthy Former Athlete - Lauren Link
Finding your Sweet Spot - Rebecca McConville
Roar - Stacy Sims
The Sports Nutrition Playbook - Amy Goodson
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The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks, Toni Tipton-Martin
Jubilee: Recipes From Two Centuries of African American Cooking, Toni Tipton-Martin
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South, Michael Twitty
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America, Jessica Harris
Every Nation Has It's Dish: Black Food and Black Bodies in Twentieth Century America, Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Latin d’Lite: Delicious Latin Recipes with a Healthy Twist by Ingrid Hoffman
Southern Food and Civil Rights, Frederick Douglass Opie
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Mental Health Stigma by Gloria Oladipo
“It’s Time to Correct the Narrative Surrounding Black Girls and Eating Disorders” by Anissa Gray
“When Black Girls Hear That ‘Our Bodies Are All Wrong’” by Mikki Kendall
“Black Women Suffer from Eating Disorders too, Stop Pushing Us out of Those Conversations” by Clarkisha Kent
“Women of Color: The Eating Disorder Survivors who Suffer in Silence” by Achea Redd
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Race, Social Class, & Bulimia Nervosa (Goeree, Ham, & Iorio, 2011)
Prevalence of Eating Disorders among Blacks in the National Survey of American Life (Taylor, Caldwell, Baser, Faison, & Jackson, 2007)
12 ACTION ITEMS TO PROMOTE CROSS CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT
12 ACTION ITEMS TO PROMOTE CROSS CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT
ASPDA, together with the Access and Inclusion Committee, is encouraging cross-cultural engagement by challenging ASPDA members to complete 12 Actions Items each year.
Educate yourselves, empower your colleagues and uplift your communities by completing at least one action item monthly.
Tag @FuelingVictory and #ASPDATakesAction on social media to show us your engagement throughout the year. Be a part of intentional change; begin regular participation during the month of January!
Contact the Access & Inclusion Committee
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