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2022 - Can I Have Another Snack Substack
- Here’s why you might want to pass on getting your kid weighed in school, 30 August 2022
https://laurathomas.substack.com/p/heres-why-you-might-want-to-pass?utm
2019 - The Independent and Radio Five
- My terror of being fat drove me to anorexia, but I was rescued by the thrill of fighting for a cause, The Independent, 1st March 2019
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/eating-disorders-anorexia-fat-shaming-body-positivity-a8803456.html - Interview with AnyBody member Eleanor Higgins, Radio 5 Live, 13th March 2019
https://soundcloud.com/anybodyuk/radio-5-live-tonight-interview-with-eleanor-higgins-13-5-19
2018 - The Independent and The Washington Post
- These are the terrifying plastic surgery apps aimed at young girls, The Independent, March 24, 2018 https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/plastic-surgery-girls-children-liposuction-nose-job-lip-filler-double-eyelid-surgery-body-image-a8270041.html
- Controversial apps for kids make cosmetic surgery into a game, Washington Post, April 16, 2018 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/16/controversial-apps-for-kids-make-cosmetic-surgery-into-a-game/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5958a747f9be
- What Kim Kardashian squealing about being skinny on Instagram can tell us about neoliberalism and patriarchy, The Indepedent, August 1, 2018 https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/kim-kardashian-body-instagram-skinny-neoliberalism-patriarchy-sexism-kendall-jenner-a8473061.html
- We convinced Apple to drop a cosmetic surgery app for kinds, Stuff NZ, December 27, 2018 https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/beauty/109502740/we-convinced-apple-to-drop-a-cosmetic-surgery-app-for-kids
2017 - The Guardian, BBC News and The Independent
- If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to go on a diet, read this first, The Indepedent, December 28, 2017 http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/new-years-resolution-diet-tips-industry-weight-loss-read-this-first-a8131056.html
- Susie Orbach talking about the Surgery is Not a Game campaign, Voice of Islam, 14th June, 2017
http://voiceofislam.co.uk/podcasts/breakfast-show-podcast-14-07-2017 - Holli Rubin on how plastic surgery apps are sending the wrong message, The Kieno Kammies Show, June 23rd, 2017
https://omny.fm/shows/the-kieno-kammies-show/plastic-surgery-apps-for-kids-are-sending-the-wron - Plastic surgery apps aimed at girls as young as nine are telling them operations can stop them being ‘ugly’, Manchester Evening News, June 23, 2017 http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/plastic-surgery-apps-for-girls-13227037
- Protect children from online cosmetic surgery apps say campaigners, The Guardian, June 22, 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jun/22/protect-children-from-online-cosmetic-surgery-apps-say-campaigners
- Thousands sign petition against plastic surgery game, Good2Know, February 2, 2017
http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/family/548185/petition-against-plastic-surgery-game - Britain’s unregulated plastic surgery industry ‘targeting children’, The Independent, June 21, 2017
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/cosmetic-procedures-plastic-surgery-targeting-children-cause-for-concern-nuffield-council-of-a7801471.html - ‘Shocking’ plastic surgery games for children must go from internet, say experts, AOL, June 21, 2017 http://www.aol.co.uk/living/2017/06/21/shocking-plastic-surgery-games-for-children-must-go-from-inter/
- Calls to outlaw plastic surgery games aimed at children as young as 9, The Mirror, June 22, 2017 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/calls-outlaw-plastic-surgery-games-10664937
- Girls as young as eight being groomed by cosmetic surgery games, The Telegraph, June 22, 2017 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/22/girls-young-eight-groomed-cosmetic-surgery-games
- Calls to outlaw plastic surgery games aimed at children as young as nine, The Mirror, June 22, 2017 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/calls-outlaw-plastic-surgery-games-10664937
- Girls as young as nine targeted by online games about plastic surgery say experts, The Sun, June 22, 2017 https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/3855766/girls-as-young-as-nine-targeted-by-online-games-about-plastic-surgery-say-experts
- Social media pressure is linked to cosmetic surgery boom, BBC News, June 22, 2017
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40358138
2016 - BBC News and The Telegraph
- Susie Orbach: can therapy change the world?, BBC News, 7th November 2016
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04fhmq4 - Susie Orbach on why Britons are increasingly anxious, and falling in love with a woman after 40, The Telegraph, October 31, 2016 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/susie-orbach-on-why-brits-are-increasingly-anxious—and-falling
- Susie Orbach: The Poetry of Therapy, The Guardian, October 29, 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/29/susie-orbach-poetry-of-therapy
- Clean eating a dirty burgers: how food became a matter of morals, The Guardian, July 17, 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jul/17/clean-eating-dirty-burgers-food-morals-julian-baggini
2015 - New York Times, Cosmopolitan and Metro
- Obesity isn’t the half of it: fat or thin, our eating is disordered, The Guardian, December 14, 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/14/obesity-chief-medical-officer-war-on-fat-troubled-eating?CMP=share_btn_tw
- Selfies: the high cost of low confidence, Women in the World, October 7, 2015 http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2015/10/07/selfies-the-high-cost-of-low-confidence/
- Vicky and Charlotte talk about Fat is not a Feeling campaign, BBC Sussex, 29th March 2015
https://soundcloud.com/anybody_uk/vicky-charlotte-bbc-sussex-march-20-2015 - #FatIsNotAFeeling Facebook petition proves successful after ‘fat’ and ‘ugly’ are removed as emoticons, Cosmopolitan, March 17, 2015 http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/entertainment/news/a33934/fatisnotafeeling-facebook-petition-emoticons
- The problem with ‘fat talk’, The New York Times, March 15, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/opinion/sunday/the-perils-of-fat-talk.html
- Facebook removes ‘I feel fat’ status option for users, The Irish Times, March 15, 2015 http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/facebook-removes-i-feel-fat-status-option-for-users-1.2139000
- Facebook gets rid of ‘feeling fat’ status and emotion after online petition, The Guardian, March 12, 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/12/facebook-removes-feeling-fat-status-option-and-emoji-after-campaign
- Facebook gets rid of ‘feeling fat’ status and emoticon after online pettion, The Independent, March 11, 2015 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-pulls-feeling-fat-status-and-emoticon-after-online-petition-10099803.html
- Over 16000 people sign digital petition against Facebook’s ‘feeling fat’ emoji, The Daily Mail, March 10, 2015 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2987584/Over-16-000-people-sign-digital-petition-against-Facebook-s-feeling-fat-emoji.html
- Petition launched to remove ‘feeling fat’ emoji from Facebook, Metro, March 9, 2015 http://metro.co.uk/2015/03/09/petition-launched-to-remove-feeling-fat-emoji-from-facebook-5095244
- There’s a petition to ban one of facebook’s ‘feeling’ emojis – and here’s why, MTV, March 9, 2015
http://www.mtv.co.uk/facebook/news/theres-a-petition-to-ban-one-of-facebooks-feeling-emojis-and-heres-why - Petition urges Facebook to remove feeling ‘fat’ status update option, Time, March 9, 2015
http://time.com/3736809/facebook-petition-feeling-fat-status-update - Facebook’s ‘feeling fat’ emoticon is fueling a fight over digital body shaming, The Washington Post, March 6, 2015 http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/06/facebooks-feeling-fat-emoticon-is-fueling-a-fight-over-digital-body-shaming
- Emoting on Emoticons, London Evening Standard, March 2, 2015 http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/londoners-diary-russell-brand-cant-match-yanis-for-cool-10080271.html
- What are we feeling when we’re feeling ‘fat’?, The Frisky, February 9, 2015 http://www.thefrisky.com/2015-02-09/what-are-we-feeling-when-were-feeling-fat
- Could fat actually be fit? Why we need to ditch the diet myths. Fast, The Telegraph, January 23, 2015 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/11350284/Could-fat-actually-be-fit-Lets-ditch-the-diet-myths.-Fast.html
2014 - BBC, TEDx and The Guardian
- Susie Orbach: Beauty obsession and body modification, The European, December 29, 2014 http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/susie-orbach–2/9387-beauty-obsession-and-body-modification
- 100 Women: the task ahead, BBC, October 28, 2014
Clip no longer available - Roanna Mitchell: Undermining the merchants of body hatred, TEDx, October 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFqZOzrEyiM - Learning how to shape your culture, Alt Magazine, August 7, 2014
http://altmagazine.co.uk/learning-how-to-shape-your-culture - You are more than what you look like: easy ways to boost self esteem by Ugly Little Girl author, The Daily Mail, July 22, 2014 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2699992/You-look-like-Easy-ways-boost-self-esteem-Ugly-Little-Girl-author.html
- The toxic truth about triple zero women, The Telegraph, July 2, 2014 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10938406/The-toxic-truth-about-Triple-Zero-women.html
- Body image and pregnancy, BBC Radio 4, June 24, 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p021bd06 - Body politics and the fakeness of Barbie and Ken, Julia Schell, June 18, 2014
http://juliaschell.com/?p=421 - New moms, a changed body is part of pregnancy, The Globe and Mail, June 12, 2014 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/learn-to-laugh-about-your-stretch-marks/article19147721/
- How soon should I lose weight after having a baby, The Guardian, June 8, 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jun/08/how-soon-should-lose-weight-after-having-baby
- Don’t call biscuits naughty, midwives told, and mothers face pressure to shed baby weight, The Telegraph, June 3, 2014 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10871912/Dont-call-biscuits-naughty-midwives-told-as-mothers-face-pressure-to-shed-baby-weight.html
- Cap imigration and British women will have to have more babies says Stella Creasy MP, The Mirror, June 3, 2014 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cap-immigration-british-women-more-3642093
- Too much pressure on women to be thin, Evening Standard, June 2, 2014 http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/too-much-pressure-on-women-to-be-thin-warns-cabinet-minister-jenny-willott-9473045.html
- Woman’s Hour: Changing your appearance, BBC Radio 4, March 18, 2015
https://soundcloud.com/anybody_uk/susie-orbach-on-womans-hour-bbc-radio-4-march-18-2015 - Pregnancy has made me love my body, Annie Ridout, March 12, 2014
http://annieridout.com/blog/feminism/pregnancy-body-image - Susie Orbach vs Tansy Hoskins, Dazed & Confused, February 2014 http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/18927/1/susie-orbach-vs-tansy-hoskins
- Interview with Susie Orbach, BBC Radio 4, 25th February 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01sv9gn - Rebecca Adlington under pressure from media, BBC London, 24th February 2014
http://www.ivoox.com/player_ea_2986353_1.html - #PlasticSurgery app, BBC Radio 5 Live, 15th January 2014
http://www.ivoox.com/player_ea_2986326_1.html - iTunes release plastic surgery apps for kids, Feminist Times, 14th January 2014
Link not available. - Woman’s Hour: how do you feel when you look in the mirror?, BBC Radio 4, 13th January 2014 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ph668
2013 - BBC, Guardian and Metro
- One plus one: Susie Orbach, ABC, 20th December 2013
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-20/one-plus-one-susie-orbach/5169772?section=business - 100 Women: Susie Orbach and Mariane Pearl, BBC Radio, October 31,2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01kbyl5 - Why Feminists are angry, Annie Ridout, October 22, 2013 http://annieridout.com/blog/feminism/why-feminists-are-angry
- Interview with psychoanalyst and author Dr Susie Orbach, ABC Classic FM, August 19, 2013
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/content/2013/08/19/3827636.htm - Susie Orbach: Hipster men join the body anxious, ABC, August 19,2013
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/susie-orbach/4891576 - Shape Your Culture: teens get creative for body confidence, All Walks Beyond the Catwalk, August 27, 2013 http://www.allwalks.org/2013/08/shape-your-culture/
- The Ditch Dieting campaign, Metro, August 18,2013 http://metro.co.uk/2013/08/12/the-ditch-dieting-campaign-3918358
- The Flick at WOW Festival, The Flick, March 14, 2013 http://the-flick.com/wordpress/2013/03/the-flick-at-wow-festival-she-said-what-womens-bodies-shaped-by-words
- Diet and weight loss: our readers respond, The Guardian, February 21, 2013 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/21/diet-weight-loss-readers-respond?INTCMP=SRCH
2012 - Huffington Post, Telegraph and The Independent
- The slightly fatter lady sings, SMH, December 16, 2012 http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/the-slightly-fatter-lady-sings-20121211-2b7j5.html
- Bryony Gordon: why fat is still a feminist issue, The Telegraph, November 25, 2012 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/9695796/Bryony-Gordon-why-fat-is-still-a-feminist-issue.html
- ‘Ugly Girl’: the negative messages we send to our daughters, The Independent, October 23, 2012 http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/ugly-girl-the-negative-messages-we-send-to-our-daughters-8222556.html
- New fund encourages women to challenge body image, Women’s Views on News, July 27, 2012 http://www.womensviewsonnews.org/2012/07/new-fund-encourages-young-women-to-challenge-body-image
- Women’s magazines and the cult of hypocrisy, Women’s Media Centre, July 5, 2012 http://www.womensmediacenter.com/feature/entry/womens-magazines-and-the-cult-of-hypocrisy
- Girl’s ages five worried about body image say MPs, The Guardian, May 30, 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/may/30/girls-aged-five-worried-about-body-image
- #OverThe Top, Vogue Italia, May 2012
http://www.vogue.it - We’ve been far too polite to these snake-oil diet sellers, The Guardian, January 29, 2012 www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/29/diet-sellers-body-confidence?INTCMP=SRCH
- Slimming clubs members into ‘straitjackets’ Susie Orbach, The Guardian, January 17, 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/17/slimming-clubs-straitjackets-susie-orbach
- She the people, The Washington Post, January 16, 2012 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/diet-books-dumped-in-uk-protest-at-parliament/2012/01/16/gIQAHid92P_blog.html
- ‘Ditching Dieting’ protesters march on parliament, The Big Smoke, January 2012
http://www.bigsmoke.org.uk/?p=26967 - Women further protest, Parveen Hassan, January 2012
http://www.parveenhassan.com/2012/01/women-further-protest-ditching-diets.html - Women plan protest against diet industry outside parliament, The Guardian, January 16, 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/15/women-protest-diet-industry-parliament?newsfeed=true
- What women see in the mirror is self hatred, The Independent, January 9, 2012 www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/mary-ann-sieghart/mary-ann-sieghart-what-women-see-in-the-mirror-is-selfhatred-6287053.html
- The ditching dieting protest: it’s personal, Beyond Chocolate, January 12, 2012 http://chocfairies.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/ditching-dieting-protest-its-personal.html
- Dieting: choice of words could seriously affect your success, The Huffington Post, January 14, 2012 www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sue-thomason/dieting-choice-of-words_b_1206130.html
- UK women protest against diet industry, Women’s Views on News, January 15, 2012 www.womensviewsonnews.org/2012/01/uk-women-protest-against-dieting-industry
2011 - The Times and The Guardian
- Happy women: and endangered species? Bidisha, February 4, 2011 http://bidisha-online.blogspot.com/2011/02/happy-women-endangered-species.html
- Challenging body beautiful culture, Adios Barbie, February 7, 2011 www.adiosbarbie.com/2011/02/endangered-species-challenging-body-beautiful-culture
- Buttock surgery is also a feminist issue, The Times, February 2011
No link available - Susie Orbach launches Endangered Bodies, European Women’s Lobby, 25th February 2011
www.womenlobby.org/spip.php?article1214 - The Saturday Interview: Susie Orbach, The Guardian, February 26, 2011 www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/feb/26/susie-orbach-endangered-species-summit
- Fashion, beauty and women’s lives: the great debate, The Guardian, February 27, 2011 www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/27/fashion-women-cosmetic-surgery-debate?INTCMP=SRCH
- Face to face, The Huffington Post, March 7, 2011 www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/susie-orbach/face-to-face_1_b_889828.html
- The beauty myth… and madness, New Internationalist, March 9, 2011 www.newint.org/blog/editors/2011/03/09/beauty-myth-and-madness
- The strange case of Liz Taylor as the ‘real woman’ role model, The Guardian, March 27, 2011 www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/27/elizabethtaylor-gwynethpaltrow?CMP=twt_gu
- Complexd women campaigning for change, Complexd, May 19, 2011 www.complexd.co.uk/2011/05/complexd-women/complexd-women-campaigning-for-change
- Does cosmetic surgery help or damage people?, The Guardian, June 17, 2011 www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/17/the-conversation-cosmetic-surgery?INTCMP=SRCH
- Authenticity and body speaks, DLD Conference, June 30, 2011 www.dld-conference.com/liveblog/dld-women11-day-2/authenticity-body-speaks_aid_2696.html
- Dare to resolve to ditch dieting, Adios Barbie, December 30, 2011 www.adiosbarbie.com/2011/12/dare-to-resolve-to-ditch-dieting
2010 - The Guardian
- Ad men today are wrong on body size, The Guardian, July 31, 2010 www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/31/susie-orbach-ad-men-wrong-on-body-size?INTCMP=SRCH
2007 - The Guardian and Women's Hour
- Susie Orbach, The Guardian, July 22, 2007
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/jul/22/comment.fashion - Women’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, February 7, 2007 www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/listenagain/2007_06_wed.shtml
- BBC Radio 4, February 12, 2007
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