#112 - Reflect and Retreat: How has culture informed your relationship with your body? A conversation and performance poetry reading with sociologist and author Kimberly Dark

Storytelling is a powerful way to examine how culture constructs
beauty standards and upholds appearance privilege. In this
episode, Kimberly Dark, author, yoga teacher, and retreat leader
performs a reading of her poem about Marilyn Monroe and her mom
teaching her how to smile like a woman down to the exact degree
angle of the head tilt. Listen as I share how my decision to
“reflect and retreat” helped me explore my relationship to my
body, heal emotional wounds, and grow in my social justice work.


About Kimberly
Kimberly Dark is a writer, professor and raconteur, working to
reveal the hidden architecture of everyday life one clever essay,
poem, and story at a time. She uses humor, surprise and intimacy
to help audiences discover their influences, and reclaim their
power as social creators. Kimberly teaches in Sociology and
Women's Studies at CSU, San Marcos. She also teaches writing and
theatre courses for Cal State Summer Arts.


Kimberly Dark has written award-winning plays, taught and
performed for a wide range of audiences in various countries over
the past two decades. Beloved by diverse audiences, Kimberly
crosses boundaries to show how we must engage all the wisdom and
verve we have to create the most compassionate, fair and
inclusive world we can.


She offers inclusive yoga retreats for helping professionals and
anyone interested in healing their relationship to their body
through yoga and self-reflection.


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