Jennifer L X Sare
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I am pansexual, two-spirit and I am an anthropologist and nutritionist.//
Our well-being is our existence, and our existence is our well-being.
Working in and researching health, fitness, wellness, and nutrition for 15 years through a decolonial interdisciplinary lens exposes longstanding systemic ethical shortcomings and highlights the need for advocacy within human sciences. My anthropological focus centers on social justice as public health by exploring environmental etiologies, the detrimental impacts of capitalistic media on well-being, and the sociopolitical determinants of health disparities. My work in nutrition predominantly focuses on eating disorders, musculoskeletal integrity, and the gut-brain axis through psychosomatic and culinary approaches.
Although I am a scientist, I am an artist as well. Embracing this part of myself helped me work through my own eating disorders upon leaving the USMC. Duality is an inherent part of my existence, philosophy, and approach as a researcher, educator, and practitioner. When we find balance, or harmonious homeostasis within ourselves, we exist in a state of embodied empowerment. My favorite way to help people with this is through food and movement.
Much of what we see in science is binary, making it not only exclusionary but reductive as well. We don’t exist in one singular standardized categorical identity; quality science reflects that.
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