61: When You're Feeling Ashamed To Be Fat - Virgie Tovar

May 4, 2020

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. 

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 

Resources: 

• Virgie Tovar
• • Website
  • Instagram
• Rebel Eaters Club Podcast
• Camp Thunder Thighs
• Book: You Have The Right To Remain Fat
• Book: The Self-Love Revolution – Radical Body Positivity For Girls Of Colour
• #LoseWeightNotHate TedX Talk

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