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Thank you to West Valley Magazine for running a story about Low-Fat Love and my larger message to women about self-esteem and living without settling. I was honored to see that LFL made the cover of the magazine. A special

Thank you to BNY Mellon for inviting me to participate in a wonderful event in NYC in honor of International Women’s Day. The event was titled “Powering Success through Diversity and Inclusion: Celebrating International Women’s Day” and was organized by

The feminist e-zine Her Circle (which focuses on women in the arts) profiled me this month in their UpClose feature. I am honored that Her Circle has used me as a vehicle to address the blurring of the art-science dualism. Thank you to

Update on Super Abuse in America: Unfortunately the first hour was a disaster due to severe sound problems that could not be fixed on air. My sincere apologies to the guests in the first part of the program. We were

Last night I had a wonderful conversation with Dr. Adrienne Trier-Bieniek about how women use music, and feminist music in particular, as a part of thier identity-building processes and as a way to heal from violence, dissatisfying relationships and other pain. We

Last night I had a wonderful conversation with Dr. Cheryl Dellasega– the foremost expert of female-to-female behavior. I greatly enjoyed our chat. Cheryl’s body of work on female bullying (or more accurately “relational aggression”) is amazing and includes girls and

Please check-out my podcast interview with Ted Bauer: covers a lot of ground (the art-science divide in academia, relationships and sexism in the media). http://ninetofiveworld.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/episode-no-16-patricia-leavy-authorsociologistpop-feminist/  Thanks for a great conversation, Ted!

I am delighted to announce the release of Diane Conrad’s book Athabasca’s Going Umanned: An Ethnodrama about Incarcerated Youth. This fictional play is based on years of original research with “at-risk” and incarcerated youth.  For more info visit here: https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=73&products_id=1401&osCsid=66cdc1392c327343dc4e754076ece5cc

Happy to announce I have started hosting my own weekly radio show on PWRTalk radio. The show is called Low-Fat Love 101 and it is a program about relationships and identity. You can listen live Thursday nights 8-8:30EST at www.internetvoicesradio.com or

Thank you, Lillian Cauldwell from PWR Radio in Ann Arbor, MI for a wonderful half an hour interview about Low-Fat Love and relationships! Lillian– you are a wonderful interviewer and I greatly enjoyed our chat. You can listen to our