61: #LoseHateNotWeight: You Have The Right To Remain Fat with Virgie Tovar
Author and Activist, Virgie Tovar, is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free from moral judgment and you can jiggle through life with respect. While progress has been made towards this in the past decade, the reality is that we are far from that at this moment in time.
As one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on weight-based discrimination and body image, Virgie Tovar is on a mission to help society unlearn everything this diet culture-influenced society has taught us, including unlearning fatphobia and how to reject diet culture’s biggest lie: that fat people need to wait before beginning their best lives.
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In this episode we discuss:
Politics surrounding weight and fat
Why health is not something we owe to other people
How a positive upbringing was tampered by diet culture
How the medical industry stigmatizes weight gain and fatness
The consequences of stigmatizing fatness and weight
Changing the narrative around health, food and size
Trigger heat maps
Preparation as a tool to manage fat-phobic events
Fatness as a human rights issue
John Kellogg and Silvester Graham’s role in shaping diet culture
The Dietary Reform Movement
Navigating familial/societal rejection
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