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Thursday, April 18, 2024 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm

04/18/2024 7:00pm 04/18/2024 8:00pm Local Libraries {LIT} featuring Virginia Sole-Smith Join us for our latest virtual Local Libraries {LIT} event featuring Virginia Sole-Smith. This is a free event, with registration required. As a journalist, Virginia Sole-Smith has reported from kitchen tables and grocery stores, graduated from beauty school, and gone swimming in a mermaid’s tail. Virginia’s latest book, Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, investigates how the “war on childhood obesity” has caused kids of all ages to absorb a daily onslaught of body shame from peers, school, diet culture, and parents themselves — and offers research-based strategies to help parents name and navigate the anti-fat bias that infiltrates our schools, doctor’s offices and family dinner tables. Virginia began her career in women’s magazines, alternatively challenging beauty standards and gender norms, and upholding diet culture through her health, nutrition and fitness reporting. Motherhood inspired a reckoning of harm caused, and led to her first book, The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America, in which Virginia explored how we can reconnect to our bodies, and our own innate understanding of how to eat, in a culture that’s constantly giving us so many mixed messages about both those things. Virginia is a frequent contributor to the New York Times. Her work also appears in the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and many other publications. She writes the newsletter Burnt Toast, where she explores fatphobia, diet culture, parenting and health, and also hosts the Burnt Toast Podcast. Virginia lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband, two daughters, a cat, a dog, and way too many houseplants. Click the link below for registration information! http://tinyurl.com/LLL-Virgina-Sole-Smith The goal of Local Libraries {Listen, Initiate, Talk} is to grow a thriving community which shines with diversity, equity, and inclusion. Local Libraries LIT is a collaboration between and sponsored by: • Coralville Public Library • Iowa City Public Library • North Liberty Library • Oxford Public Library • Solon Public Library • Springmier (Tiffin) Public Library • Swisher Public Library • University of Iowa Libraries Iowa City Public Library Iowa City Public Library America/Chicago public

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Join us for our latest virtual Local Libraries {LIT} event featuring Virginia Sole-Smith. This is a free event, with registration required.

As a journalist, Virginia Sole-Smith has reported from kitchen tables and grocery stores, graduated from beauty school, and gone swimming in a mermaid’s tail. Virginia’s latest book, Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, investigates how the “war on childhood obesity” has caused kids of all ages to absorb a daily onslaught of body shame from peers, school, diet culture, and parents themselves — and offers research-based strategies to help parents name and navigate the anti-fat bias that infiltrates our schools, doctor’s offices and family dinner tables.

Virginia began her career in women’s magazines, alternatively challenging beauty standards and gender norms, and upholding diet culture through her health, nutrition and fitness reporting. Motherhood inspired a reckoning of harm caused, and led to her first book, The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America, in which Virginia explored how we can reconnect to our bodies, and our own innate understanding of how to eat, in a culture that’s constantly giving us so many mixed messages about both those things.

Virginia is a frequent contributor to the New York Times. Her work also appears in the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and many other publications. She writes the newsletter Burnt Toast, where she explores fatphobia, diet culture, parenting and health, and also hosts the Burnt Toast Podcast. Virginia lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband, two daughters, a cat, a dog, and way too many houseplants.

Click the link below for registration information!
http://tinyurl.com/LLL-Virgina-Sole-Smith

The goal of Local Libraries {Listen, Initiate, Talk} is to grow a thriving community which shines with diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Local Libraries LIT is a collaboration between and sponsored by:
• Coralville Public Library
• Iowa City Public Library
• North Liberty Library
• Oxford Public Library
• Solon Public Library
• Springmier (Tiffin) Public Library
• Swisher Public Library
• University of Iowa Libraries

If you need disability-related accommodations in order to participate in this event, please contact the Library.

This event is open to the public.

Cosponsor

Cosponsor Organization: Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation

Cosponsor Name: Indya Finch

Cosponsor Phone: 3198876005

Adults Friends Foundation Local Libraries LIT