A project dedicated to holding space and bringing a more compassionate lens to disordered eating in the queer community.
Featuring uplifting narrative films, Wicked Bodies stimulates conversation to challenge and disrupt rigid body ideals, improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.
Featuring uplifting narrative films, Wicked Bodies stimulates conversation to challenge and disrupt rigid body ideals, improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.
“The format Wicked Bodies presents is something that we at Body Brave find to be incredibly impactful for providing hope. This hope extends both for those struggling with disordered eating who are seeking help, and for those working to support them, either professionally or personally.”
-Erin Huston Training & Education Coordinator, Body Brave
“In my twenty years in the field, I have never seen a resource like this before. I cannot underscore the importance of this work.”
-Anita Federici, Ph.D C.Psych, The Centre
for Psychology and Emotion Regulation
-Erin Huston Training & Education Coordinator, Body Brave
“In my twenty years in the field, I have never seen a resource like this before. I cannot underscore the importance of this work.”
-Anita Federici, Ph.D C.Psych, The Centre
for Psychology and Emotion Regulation
The aims of Wicked Bodies is to help to reduce stigma, generate hope, and invite more open conversation about disordered eating, eating disorders, and body dysmorphia within 2S/LGBTQIA+ communities through uplifting narratives. Wicked Bodies speaks to the need of having the voices of 2S/LGBTQIA+ community members heard in the conversations about disordered eating, eating disorders, and body standards. Traditionally their voices have not been properly or fully heard.
Wicked Bodies is a free digital resource toolkit that includes a series of short films and a discussion guidebook. The films and guidebook are designed to be used together to foster positive and engaging discussions about disordered eating, eating disorders, and body standards within a wide variety of settings. For example, Wicked Bodies could be used by treatment and healthcare centres, schools and higher education institutions, non-profit programs working with 2S/LGBTQIA+ groups, and libraries and community groups; to name just a few.
Phase 1 of the project which includes a pilot episode and a pilot guidebook was completed in April 2022. Community screening events were held in May 2022. Phase 2 plans include the creation of 10-12 more episodes on topics based on the community feedback. Funding Applications for Phase 2 are in progress and the Wicked Bodies Toolkit will be available end of 2023.
Read our Phase 1 Report here:
Wicked Bodies is a free digital resource toolkit that includes a series of short films and a discussion guidebook. The films and guidebook are designed to be used together to foster positive and engaging discussions about disordered eating, eating disorders, and body standards within a wide variety of settings. For example, Wicked Bodies could be used by treatment and healthcare centres, schools and higher education institutions, non-profit programs working with 2S/LGBTQIA+ groups, and libraries and community groups; to name just a few.
Phase 1 of the project which includes a pilot episode and a pilot guidebook was completed in April 2022. Community screening events were held in May 2022. Phase 2 plans include the creation of 10-12 more episodes on topics based on the community feedback. Funding Applications for Phase 2 are in progress and the Wicked Bodies Toolkit will be available end of 2023.
Read our Phase 1 Report here:
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“A lot of care was put into respecting our stories.”
-Film Participant Quote
-Film Participant Quote
Partnerships
Wicked Bodies is a Project of Partnerships
Truefaux Films
Truefaux Films develops and produces social impact media content, successfully promoting community action on a local, provincial, and national scope. We focus on projects that expand understanding, change perspectives, and challenge people to take action, opening up avenues of thought that continue long after each projects’ conclusion.
Truefaux Films has a proven track record of generating community-led change by forging multi-sectoral partnerships. Together we develop engagement toolkits adaptable to the specific needs of diverse populations.
Academic Partners
Community Partners
Wicked Bodies is a Project of Partnerships
Truefaux Films
Truefaux Films develops and produces social impact media content, successfully promoting community action on a local, provincial, and national scope. We focus on projects that expand understanding, change perspectives, and challenge people to take action, opening up avenues of thought that continue long after each projects’ conclusion.
Truefaux Films has a proven track record of generating community-led change by forging multi-sectoral partnerships. Together we develop engagement toolkits adaptable to the specific needs of diverse populations.
Academic Partners
- Dr Olivier Ferlatte Professeur Adjoint Département de médecine sociale et préventive École de Santé Publique de l’Université de Montréal QC
- Dr Megan Aston Professor School of Nursing, Dalhousie University NS
Community Partners
- Eating Disorders Nova Scotia, NS
- Body Brave, ON
- MacPhee Centre for Creative Learning, NS
- Bridgepoint Centre for Eating Disorders, SK
- Anita Federici Ph.D C.Psych & Owner of The Centre for Psychology & Emotion Regulation, ON
- Youth Project, NS
- Community Based Research Centre (CBRC), National
- Dieticians of Canada, ON
- Halifax Pride, NS
- National Eating Disorder Information Centre, ON
- Looking Glass Foundation, BC
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Funders
Wicked Bodies is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Other funding was provided by Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Communities, Culture and Heritage and Support 4 Culture, and the contributions of Mount Saint Vincent University.
To Donate to the Project visit MSVU Alumni Page