Episode 3: with Heardinlondon
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Hayley North & Kirsten Chick talk food, community and wellbeing with empowerment photographer Anna of Heardinlondon Photography.With recipe, cooking and nutrition tips from Hayley and Kirsten.Trigger warning:On this podcast we discuss a number of topics that may be triggering, including body image, disordered eating, gender violence and abuse, domestic violence and human trafficking. See below for useful resources.Anna of Heardinlondon is an empowerment photographer and circus expert, with a strong focus on social justice and how to find creative solutions to help people reclaim their bodies.She has spent 20 years running one of the UK’s premiere circus agencies, Missing Link Productions. For 6 years she was UK Director of Operations for Circus Kathmandu, a social circus which works with survivors of human trafficking and other vulnerable situations. More recently, Anna has set up True You Today which supports self-defined Survivors.Anna’s event credits include the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, choreography for Universal Pictures and working on a cabaret slot with Liza Minelli. She has also done a TEDTalk on Peace and Protest.Her photography work has been printed in the Guardian, BBC, Huffington Post and Times among others. In 2020 she won an honourable mention for the Margaret Cameron street photography award.Anna believes that the core tenet of buddhism – the reverence of life – is what threads all these paths together and keeps her striving for creative new ways to make sure no one gets left behind.Anna's links:www.instagram.com/heardinlondonwww.twitter.com/heardinlondon www.facebook.com/heardinlondonphotographywww.heardinlondon.comCircus for Survivors Fundraiser: https://uk.gofundme.com/f/circus-for-survivorsEven When I Fall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD3z8scr4JwUseful Resources:This Girl Can - encouraging women and girls of all shapes, sizes, abilities and backgrounds to get activehttps://www.thisgirlcan.co.uk/ Anybody – a website giving women a voice to challenge the limited physical representation of females in contemporary societyhttp://anybody.squarespace.com/Beat – eating disordershttps://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/Seed – helping people not the eating disorderhttps://seedeatingdisorders.org.uk/ ABC – anorexia and bulimia carehttps://www.anorexiabulimiacare.org.uk/Rape Crisishttps://rapecrisis.org.uk/Refuge – for women and children - against domestic violencehttps://www.refuge.org.uk/Women’s Aid – working against domestic abuse until women and children are safehttps://www.womensaid.org.uk/Sistah Space – created to bridge the gap in domestic abuse services for African heritage women and girlshttps://www.sistahspace.org/Galop – the LGBT+ anti-violence charityhttp://www.galop.org.uk/ Survivors of Abuse – supporting adult survivorshttps://survivorsofabuse.org.uk/The Survivors Trust – providing specialist support for women, men and children who have survived rape, sexual violence or childhood sexual abusehttps://www.thesurvivorstrust.org/Unseen – anti-slavery projects, helpline and safehouseshttps://www.unseenuk.org/Ella’s – working with women who have survived human trafficking and sexual exploitationhttps://www.ellas.org.uk/Rights of Women – helping women through the lawhttps://rightsofwomen.org.uk/
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