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I have struggled with an eating disorder since I was in second grade. I have vivid memories of my mother finding out that I would throw away my lunch, and being assigned a teacher who would sit with me and make sure I ate my food during our lunch period. Back then, the mentality I was applying seemed simple: Food makes you put on weight, and I didn t want to put on weight because everyone around me always made sure to communicate that weight equaled something terrible.
By the age of 19, I was finally diagnosed with my two eating disorders and started to receive the proper treatment and therapy for healing; it took 10 years to get help. Yet, this reality is far too common in the lives of Hispanic women, who are more likely to suffer from eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa than white women. Black women also have higher rates of bulimia. Yet, according to the National Eating Disorders Association, when clinicians were give
Catholic Speakers of Color, catholicspeakersofcolor.com, currently has profile and contact information for 53 people. (NCR screenshot)
After learning about her own family s intergenerational wounds from racism, Leticia Ochoa Adams began to see the Catholic Church s complicity in racism and set out to change the church s narrative when it comes to issues of race and social justice.
Last October, the writer and mother founded the new website, Catholic Speakers of Color, which aims to help conference organizers find a more diverse array of Catholic speakers. The online platform features 53 speakers, including Adams, who represent a variety of ethnicities and skin tones.