'Love Your Body', Austin Women: Austin NOW's Love Your Body Day Resource Fair @ 5604 Manor Rd - Sun. 10/16, 1-5pm

Love Your Body Day presented by Austin NOW

@ 5604 Manor - Sun. Oct. 16, 1-5pm.

This is a rare blog that isn't specifically about Austin d-i-y art, entertainment, and culture. However, many d-i-y women in Austin struggle with the concept of body image in their daily lives and creative work. Many women face discrimination about their appearance based on "racist, sexist, unhealthy, and unattainable beauty standards sold to us by the mainstream media". Presented by Austin NOW, the local chapter of the National Organization for Women, Love Your Body Day is a timely national and local event for a diverse body of women, happening during End Fat Talk Week (October 16-22). 


On Sunday, October 16th, from 1 to 5pm at 5604 Manor, "Austin NOW invites women, girls, and those who care about them to join us in celebrating Love Your Body Day...aimed at questioning racist, sexist, unhealthy, and unattainable beauty standards sold to us by the mainstream media as well as encouraging women to love and take care of themselves as they are."


Sponsored by the NOW Foundation, the Austin NOW resource fair occurs a few days earlier than the official national event (October 19th), and features health and fitness guides, fat acceptance, and other valuable, empowering information provided by community groups that help women. 


For more Love Your Body Day details and to RSVP, go to Facebook.