It's Ok to Be Fat and Joyful!

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03/30/23 • 67 min

Fantastical Fatty Podcast

IT'S OK TO BE FAT AND JOYFUL!

SOPHIA APOSTOL | @FATJOY.LIFE

Your body isn't broken and your fatness doesn't need fixing. It's the systems that need to change! It's ok to be fat and you don't need to change your body to be able to create fat joy in your life.
Sophia Says...

"Our bodies are not the problem. The systems need to be fixed."

It's taken Sophia a lifetime to release her ties to toxic weight-loss culture, embrace her fat body, and dare to take up space in the body she has now. The bottom line of it all ... it's ok to be fat! In this episode, we share our experiences of existing in a fat body and weave in our stories that anyone who's dared to exist in a plus-size body will relate to! In this episode we discuss,

The Emotional Labour of Buying Clothes
Falling in Love with the Word Fat
Shopping with Straight-Sized Friends When You're Fat
Why 95% of Diets Fail (and why that's a good thing!)
Identifying as a Fat Person
Reclaiming Your Body Identity
Daring to Take Up Space in the Body You Have Now!

Meet Sophia!

Sophia hosts The Fat Joy podcast, a joyful rebellion against anti-fatness. Sophia and her guests explore the harms, biases, and oppressions we've all experienced while living in a world that marginalizes plus-size & fat bodies and promotes the lies of Diet Culture and how we can still dare to have the audacity and courage to reach toward joy and live our best lives while advocating for collective fat liberation & body positivity.

Connect with Sophia

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About Fantastical Fatty
Lindsay Johnson, aka Fantastical Fatty, is a fat joy activist, fat liberationist, and fat fitness lover. They believe fat people deserve to love their fat bodies and take up space!
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IT'S OK TO BE FAT AND JOYFUL!

SOPHIA APOSTOL | @FATJOY.LIFE

"Our bodies are not the problem. The systems need to be fixed."

The Emotional Labour of Buying Clothes
Falling in Love with the Word Fat
Shopping with Straight-Sized Friends When You're Fat
Why 95% of Diets Fail (and why that's a good thing!)
Identifying as a Fat Person
Reclaiming Your Body Identity
Daring to Take Up Space in the Body You Have Now!

Meet Sophia!

Connect with Sophia

Previous Episode

How Body Confidence Helps You Take Up Space

HOW BODY CONFIDENCE HELPS YOU TAKE UP SPACE

KELSEY JONES | @KBTHEWANNAB

Kelsey Jones, alt fat baddie with a passion for makeup and helping others love the skin they're in by showing off her own with no apologies, tells us how to have body confidence so we can take up space and love ourselves no matter what we look like!
Kelsey Says...

"In the self-love journey, no step is too small, as long as it's going in the right direction."

Before Kelsey was an alt fat baddie sharing drool-worthy makeup and fashion on TikTok and Instagram she was following all the "rules" we all so easily fall in line with. That is until she boldly decided to face the fear of the unknown, leave nursing school and begin her self-love and body confidence journey. She's learned that we can't live our lives trying to please others and that self-love and body confidence comes from carving our own path and taking up space as our most powerful, badass selves. In this episode, we talk about,

Why we can't make ourselves miserable living to please other people
If people in marginalized bodies are conditioned to live their lives for other people
Waking up and realizing we don't have any sense of who we are and what we want
When we question whether we're taking up space or seeking attention
Who's voicing the bully in our heads that's telling us taking up space isn't ok
The feeling that comes from wearing what we want and knowing it helps other folks in bigger bodies do the same
That trolls don't matter; it's about the people who feel better about themselves because of our content

Meet Kelsey! she/her
Kelsey Jones is an alt fat baddie with a passion for makeup and helping others love the skin they're in by showing off her own with no apologies 😘

Connect with Mia

Next Episode

Forget Body Ideals and Find Body Joy!

FORGET SOCIETY'S BODY STANDARDS AND FIND BODY JOY!

FIERCE AND CURVY EMPIRE | @fierceandcurvyempire

At a certain point, we just have to stop giving a crap about other people's opinions (seriously, who cares?) and forget about trying to fit into society's beauty standards for the sake of finding our own body joy! Only then can we start to confidently take up space and be the best version of ourselves...the version that's changing the freaking world!
Queen K Says...

"Taking up space is not giving a damn what anyone else is thinking, to fully experience the moment and not have anything else take you away from that."

How much juiciness can we fit into one podcast episode? You're about to find out! I talked with the Queens of Fierce and Curvy Empire, founder Queen K and her crew Queen D and Queen C, and we dove into what it looks like when we buy into society's body ideals and thin beauty standards and why we have to STOP GIVING A CRAP about all of that and discover our own body joy!

Some of the highlights of our convo include,

Why we need to stop waiting to lose weight to feel worthy
Exploring dance in a plus-size body as a journey, not a destination
What happens when we move for joy, not maximum calorie burn
Finding body joy when life throws you a curve ball
The glorious concept of Fat Vanity?
No longer internalizing body shame that others carry and project onto us
Why fat representation matters for younger generations
The frustration of existing in a society that doesn't want to see fat people living their best lives
When someone tells a fat person they're so brave ... and why sometimes that feels awesome and other times totally sucks!

All Resources We Talked About

Meet the Queens of FACE!

Queen K created FACE, an all-inclusive full-figured dance company that provides a safe and strong community, and believes that everyone has the right to move their bodies and take up space. Queen K is joined by Queen D and Queen C to create a safe and encouraging community to bring out the fierce queen within YOU! This no judgement zone is where we will build each other up, straighten each other’s crowns, and show the world that we are not defined by our size.

Connect with the Queens

Fantastical Fatty Podcast - It's Ok to Be Fat and Joyful!

Transcript

Sophia Apostle - FF Podcast _ complete

[00:00:00] We need to be visible everywhere. Everywhere in order to start to normalize and start to change things and to demand that things like our bodies are not the problem. Yes. So the systems need to be fixed.

[00:00:12] Restaurant systems, restaurant need to fix it. Clothing designers need to fix it. Like I refuse to believe that they can't.

[00:00:19] Welcome to the Fantastical Fatty Podcast, where we celebrate fat baddies challen