Tackling Body Image in Your Undies with Peta Hooke

Wednesday, 22 February 2023 - 6:00pm to 6:30pm
Peta Hooke, Disability advocate does a flashmob in her undies and wheelchair to tackle body image in Bourke Street Melbourne

Creator of the ‘I Can’t Stand Podcast’, Peta Hooke, hosts a weekly show answering questions about life, when you have a disability. She interviews a wide range of amazing disabled people, from celebrities to someone just like you. 

 

Melbourne-based Peta has the lifelong disability of Cerebral Palsy, and is today’s guest on our radio show Brainwaves. She will talk about body image and mental health whilst living with a disability.

 

Join Peta with our host Flic Manning and tune in at 5pm (AEDT) on 3CR Community Radio!

 

https://www.3cr.org.au/streaming

 

Peta would also like to invite you to join The PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival EveryBody is Beautiful flash mob she is co-organising for International Women’s Day on 8

March at 6:30pm at the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton, Victoria.  

 

Register or learn more here

 

https://melbournefashionfestival.com.au/2023-event/performance-everybody-is-beautiful\

 

Image: Photo of Peta doing ‘The Drunk on Confidence Walk’ at the Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne

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CONTACT Flic: flicmanning.com

 

If you need support with your body image please contact: The Butterfly Foundation Australia

 

Wednesday 5:00pm to 5:30pm
Challenging the mainstream, negative stereotypes of people with a mental illness, Brainwaves actively engages those living with a mental illness as researchers, interviewers, performers and program designers while promoting community mental health awareness.

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