For Fork's Sake

A co-production with Knife & Fork in Chicago, For Fork’s Sake is a live-stream on-line discussion series about food, women and body politics — particularly body image and the barrage of often contradictory messages our cultures send us about eating.

On the last Wednesday of every month for a year, a varying group of five actresses, comediennes and women’s studies professionals gathered in front of their computer webcams for an hour.  During the course of the unscripted discussion, the women ate a meal and talked about the sociological, political and personal implications of the act of eating as a woman.

The discussions was broadcast live through GoogleChat and was archived to the For Fork’s Sake YouTube channel.  During the live discussion, the participants were connected to social media, so that they could integrate live comments and questions, as well as tweeting/posting any relevant links to the discussion.

For Fork’s Sake debuted on July 23rd, 2014 at 7pm CST, and aired its season finale on July 29th, 2015.  Over the course of the year, the panelists discussed the following topics:
Eating Disorders & Disordered Eating
Media Advertising and Food
Dressing the Body (Fashion & Body Politics)
Body Autonomy & Body Policing
Cultural Food and the Family Table
Weight Loss Surgeries
Young People and Body Image
Socioeconomic Drivers to Purchasing Food
Mothers as Guardians of Children’s Nutrition
Foodiehood & Cooking Shows
The “Obesity Epidemic”
Female Bodies and Hollywood