Come to Peace with Your Body

Posted on December 30, 2010

Sharon, co-editor of Adios Barbie, is a freelance writer and editor originally from Toronto, Canada now living in Argentina. Her educational background consists of undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Exceptionality in Human Learning from the University of Toronto. While living in Toronto, she was a regular guest on the radio program Life Rattle where she orated several of her short stories, many of which addressed issues such as body image and violence against women. Upon graduation she devoted her energies to a career in social work, in roles that included supporting individuals with intellectual and physical handicaps, facilitating eating disorder support groups, and acting as a literacy assessor and educator for homeless women.

At present, Sharon is also a member of the Any-Body team, an organization that challenges the culture that teaches women and girls to hate their own bodies. She has contributed articles to Any-Body’s website as well as organizing Endangered Species in Buenos Aires, one of five international body image summits in March 2011. Additionally, she ghostwrites college textbooks, pens articles for an international best-selling author, and works as a freelance editor and translator. The rest of the time you can find her writing articles, essays, and fiction that deal with the subjects of body, self-image, violence against women, and feminism. Sharon currently lives in Buenos Aires with her husband and two cats.

Connect with Sharon on Twitter @Sharon_Haywood

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