In today’s episode of Love, Curvy Yoga, we interview Hanne Blank who spends her time thinking, learning, writing, and speaking at the crossroads of bodies, self, and culture.
Inside this episode, you’ll hear us talk more about:
- Hanne’s work bridges the town/gown divide and the mind/body split, find out how she found herself doing this kind of translation work
- What Hanne wishes all exercisers knew about good bodies
- What Hanne’s relationship with her body was like as a young person
- And, so much more!
Meet Our Guest, Hanne Blank
Hanne Blank, joyfully spanning the town/gown divide as well as the mind/body split, her books include the histories Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality (Beacon Press, 2012) and Virgin: The Untouched History (Bloomsbury, 2007), the cult classic sex and body-acceptance books The Unapologetic Fat Girl’s Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts (Ten Speed Press, 2012), Big Big Love: A Sex and Relationships Guide for People of Size (and Those Who Love Them) (Celestial Arts, 2011), and several others.
Hanne’s work has been featured in periodicals ranging from Penthouse to Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, and in anthologies ranging from Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking The Rules to Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape.
A former Scholar of the Institute for Teaching and Research on Women at Towson University, Hanne has taught in various capacities on campuses including Brandeis and Tufts. She is also a popular speaker and guest lecturer, with appearances ranging from Harvard University to University of Minnesota, Johns Hopkins University, and beyond.
Hanne splits her time between Atlanta, Georgia, and St. Paul, Minnesota. She is currently affiliated with Emory University, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in history and consults to Emory Healthcare. Her current research interests include feminist and lesbian-feminist health activism in the American South and the medical history of trauma diagnosis.
Connect with Hanne Blank in the following places: