On Thursday August 22, 2002, ISAA Director Allen Steadham and Ursula's Curse frontwoman Gia Melissa Marciano addressed students at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin concerning size acceptance as part of the "Our Stories" diversity panel. The students were Residence Assistants (RAs) and Hall Coordinators for UT's dormitories. Also present were representatives for other "underrepresented groups" (in the student population) in the diversity panel: gays, lesbians and transgendered people; international students; muslims; and students with recently divorced parents.

"Our Stories" took place on the UT Austin campus in Welch Hall and consisted of two 55-minute sessions (between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.) with approximately 100 RAs and Hall Coordinators. The sessions began by addressing stereotypes each group faced and how the RAs and Hall Coordinators should be informed concerning the stereotypes each group faces and also be respectful to all students.

Steadham and Marciano addressed different aspects of size acceptance to the students. After Steadham introduced ISAA and dispelled the common stereotype that "fat people are lazy, unhealthy, greedy overeating slobs," Marciano spoke to the RAs and Hall Coordinators about eating disorders. When Marciano asked the students how many of them knew someone who they suspected had an eating disorder, about 33% raised their hands (from both sessions combined). Marciano gave some facts and figures concerning eating disorders and then spoke about what it's like to be plus-sized and the frontwoman of a "rocktronic" band.

After every representative of the panel got to address the stereotypes they were trying educate people about, the moderator for "Our Stories" gave the students the opportunity to ask questions of the panelists. Several of their questions were to the ISAA representatives, especially concerning Southwest Airlines' recent "people of size" policy and the case of a fat man suing a restaurant for "making him fat." Steadham addressed these questions by explaining Southwest Airlines' policy and its inherent fallacies and by clarifying that the fast food restaurant lawsuit was frivolous and that ISAA does not support it.

Following the question and answer portion of each session, Marciano and Steadham spoke to students who had additional questions, passed out business cards, ISAA literature (which included a brochure and size acceptance bibliography) and Marciano handed out free Ursula's Curse CDs and signed autographs. Marciano and Steadham also encouraged the RAs and Hall Coordinators to contact them if they had additional questions or if they would like to become involved in the new Austin, Texas chapter of ISAA.