Harm-Reduction Education Isn't Optional with Gloria Lucas

 

Episode 133 – Harm-reduction Education Isn't Optional with Gloria Lucas

This week, Karin welcomes Gloria Lucas, eating disorder awareness activist and founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride, to the show for our newest episode, ”Harm-Reduction Education Isn't Optional”

Tune in to for a discussion on how the BIPOC community is left out of ED treatment and access, the strategies of harm-reduction aimed to reduce negative consequences, how harm-reduction offers safety, challenging the realities of one’s political and values system, harm-reduction as a tool for radical love for and from the community, reducing the stigma of harm-reduction through medical literacy and advocacy, the Eating Disorder Harm-Reduction Course, and more!

Gloria Lucas is an eating disorders awareness activist that specializes in intersectional eating disorders education and resources that transform the lives of BIPOC individuals and expand eating disorders treatment models. Being the founder and CEO of Nalgona Positivity Pride, she is able to raise awareness through digital media, public speaking, and grassroots activism.

Gloria’s work focuses on the intersections of size diversity, eating disorders and historical trauma, and indigenous matriarchal epistemologies for eating disorder healing. Her work has been featured in NPR, Teen Vogue, MTV, PBS, Los Angeles Times, and Bitch Magazine.

Want to learn more about harm-reduction? Gain tools, inspiration, and support while adopting a harm-reduction framework that suits you and the communities you serve by enrolling in Nalgona Positivity Pride's, “Eating Disorder Harm Reduction Course,” a comprehensive eating disorder harm-reduction course for eating disorder and care providers.