{"id":10634,"date":"2014-02-21T15:20:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T20:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=10634"},"modified":"2015-12-17T13:47:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T18:47:39","slug":"womens-history-month-speaker-discuss-living-year-without-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2014\/02\/womens-history-month-speaker-discuss-living-year-without-mirrors\/","title":{"rendered":"Author to discuss living for a year without mirrors, part of \u201cI Am Enough\u201d campaign at UTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">If you\u2019ve had problems with body image, you\u2019re not alone. Kjerstin Gruys experienced the same feelings, which led her to live without mirrors for a year and to write a memoir about the experience, <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Mirror Mirror off the Wall: How I Learned to Love My Body by Not Looking at It for a Year<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">. If you\u2019re wondering how this changed her self-perception, or just how she put her makeup on without a mirror, come out to see her lecture.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[tboot_column_wrap]<br \/>\n[tboot_column size=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Gruys, who has appeared on <i>20\/20<\/i>, <i>The Colbert Report<\/i>, and <i>Good Morning America<\/i>, will be presenting this public lecture, \u201cBeauty: Bodies from the Personal to the Political\u201d on March 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the UTC University Center Auditorium. The event will be free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth year that UTC has sponsored an event for Eating Disorder Awareness. Gruys is also the keynote speaker for 2014 Women\u2019s History Month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that self-image is a constant problem for women in our society and I think that by offering programing like this we\u2019re really going to reach a lot of women about this issue and let them know that they really are perfect just the way they are. We want them to think more about their holistic health and not the number on the scale or their reflection in the mirror,\u201d says Cassie Nice, Assistant Director of the Women\u2019s Center.<\/p>\n<p>This program brings a unique perspective to the subject of body image. Gruys worked in the fashion industry at Abercrombie &amp; Fitch Corporate and later at GAP Inc. She is now pursuing the Ph.D. in sociology at UCLA.\u00a0 Her research explores the relationship between physical appearance and social inequity. She is a feminist, an academic, a fashionista, and a recovered anorexic. As Gruys put it, she was a \u201ca body-image expert with a body-image problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\/tboot_column]<\/p>\n<p>[tboot_column size=&#8221;6&#8243;]<br \/>\n[tboot_well]<br \/>\n<small>Kjerstin Gruys will be the keynote speaker for the \u201cI Am Enough\u201d campaign created by the UTC Dean of Students Office and made possible by an award from Kappa Delta Sorority\u2019s Confidence Coalition Project. The campaign was designed to inspire college women to build confidence through healthy body imaging and the development of meaningful relationships.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>March 3<\/strong><br \/>\nCampaign Kick-Off from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Heritage Plaza<br \/>\nFeel Good Naked Event with Kjerstin Gruys at 7:30 p.m., UC Auditorium<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 4<\/strong><br \/>\nPower Yoga at 12 noon in the Multicultural Center<br \/>\n&#8220;Food for Thought&#8221; from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the Multicultural Center<br \/>\nSelf-Harm Awareness Photo Exhibit 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Chattanooga Room<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 5<\/strong><br \/>\nSelf-Defense Class from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the Multicultural Center<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 6<\/strong><br \/>\nThe I Am Enough Pledge from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the UC Lobby<br \/>\n[\/tboot_well]<br \/>\n[\/tboot_column]<br \/>\n[\/tboot_column_wrap]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of men and women struggle with image issues, feeling like they\u2019re not accepted for the way they look. We always want to correlate self-image with weight, but it comes in many forms, from facial features to fashion, and we critique ourselves harshly on these things. And that\u2019s what I liked about the book and the concept about this woman who spent a year without looking at herself in a mirror for a year. If we all did that, I wonder if we would stop judging ourselves and others aesthetically and be more kind,\u201d says Tricia Henderson, the Assistant Director of the UTC Counseling and Personal Development Center.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011 while shopping for a wedding dress, Gruys felt the crushing influence of beauty expectations \u2013 and that\u2019s when she decided to live without mirrors for a year. <i>Mirror Mirror off the Wall<\/i> is her poignant, humorous memoir of how she lived for twelve months without looking into a reflective surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the tone of her book is really relatable, and really connects well with this generation and gets her point across in an enjoyable way,\u201d says Nice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGruys has a unique perspective, coming from the fashion industry to the sociological perspective. Her personal experience is fascinating. She makes it humorous as well and I think that students can really identify with it because it\u2019s something that she\u2019s lived,\u201d says Henderson.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture will cover not only <i>Mirror Mirror off the Wall<\/i>, but also Gruys\u2019s experience researching the issue, working in the fashion industry, political aspects of beauty ideals, and how we all buy into the image of beauty that the media sells us.<\/p>\n<p>This program was brought to UTC through a joint effort from the Women\u2019s Center, the Women\u2019s Studies Program, the Counseling Center, the Campus Activities Board, Student Health Services, Development, and Panhellenic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s really great that we have so many groups that are stepping up to sponsor such a big event and I think it speaks loudly to how needed programing is like this on the UTC campus,\u201d says Nice.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone struggling with body image issues or eating disorders, help is available at UTC in the Student Health Services <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utc.edu\/student-health-services\/\">http:\/\/www.utc.edu\/student-health-services\/<\/a> \u00a0and the Women\u2019s Center \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utc.edu\/womens-center\/\">http:\/\/www.utc.edu\/womens-center\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve had problems with body image, you\u2019re not alone. 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