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Jennifer Radke
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[REPOST] - Fat Activism by Charlotte Cooper with Cat Pausé
Fat Girl Book Club
03/31/22 • 58 min
This week I am re-releasing this episode with Cat Pausé. I didn't know her well, in fact we only met twice. I was on her podcast Friend of Marilyn and she was on mine. But her work was brilliant and I was so honoured to have her on the show. She recently, vey suddenly passed away. I wanted to do something to show how amazing she was and how much of an impact she has had on me. The fact she came onto my growing podcast and gave her limited time to a fledging fat liberationist is a true testimony to her generous nature. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to talk to her about something she clearly had so much passion about. Here is the newsletter notes I released just before the show was available for download:
The episode that is going to be released tomorrow is amazing. Truly. If you have never heard of Cat Pausé, then you need to immediately go here and here and here! I don't think I fangirl enough in this episode but in all honesty, I look up to this woman. I think the things she has done in the world of fat activism are exemplary and worthy of praise. Please don't miss this episode.
Cat and I discuss:
- Cat's journey to fat politics and her political activism in New Zealand
- Why the key too fat liberation has nothing to do with health
- Defining fat activism
- The palatability of certain fat activism proxies
- The different types of fat activism
- The three "defining" events of fat activism
- The messiness of activism
- Cat's experience with burnout and the direction her radio show took because of it
- The dominance of US voices in the movement
- What it means to Queer fat activism
Rest In Power Cat
Keep reading everyone
Fat-Talk Nation by Susan Greenhalgh with Amanda Levitt
Fat Girl Book Club
09/01/22 • 82 min
TRIGGER WARNING: Use of the O-words
All good things must come to an end my friends. This podcast has saved me in a multitude of ways. The books I've read for the show, the people I've met have changed my life. I am a different, a better person because I did this show. I am also a more confident speaker and connector to others because I had a podcast. I just feel so grateful for the opportunity to run a show about something I love and connect to you, the listeners. I am so, so grateful you listened, subscribed and enjoyed.
But life has taken me in a different direction and so (at least for now) after episode 80 (stick around for that one!) the show will be on a break. I really do hope to come back in the new year but until then, maybe you wan't to check out my guest's podcast! Amanda Levitt is the host of a podcast called Fat Theory Book Club so not only does she read body liberation books but she also talks to readers and authors alike about the ideas in them. It is worth your time to check it out BUT FIRST (lol), check out my chat with Amanda where we talk about Fat-Talk Nation by Susan Greenhalgh. We cover:
- Amanda's journey to activism
- Baby steps for baby activists
- Why Amanda picked this book
- The research in this book and how that compares to fat liberation classic reads
- The concept of biocitizenship
- Was there a difference between the Obese and the Overweight chapters in terms of experiences and Greenhalgh's analysis
- How the War on Obesity's capitalist agenda affects Ivy League universities and their research
- Discussing the thin experience
- Have there been changes since this book?
- Some medical devices for weight loss that you've never heard of! 🤯
Keep Reading Everyone!
Amanda's Links
Fat Girl Book Club Links
Amanda's Book Recommendations
Unbearable Weight by Susan Bordo
The Embodiment of Disobedience by Andrea Elizabeth Shaw
Can't Buy My Love by Jean Kilbourne
Episode Links
Your Better Body Image Checklist - Body and Diet Talk
Fat Girl Book Club
08/06/20 • 40 min
If you already have a copy of the Your Better Body Image Checklist, I am going to do a series of episodes which takes the concepts of the checklist to a deeper level. If you don't already have it, this will give you a taste of what kinds of things are on it.
This first episode is about how destructive negative body talk and diet talk is to how we think about our own bodies. I focus on TV, social media and real life relationships.
Next episode will be an interview episode! This episode though is just me.
Grab your copy of the checklist here
A Body Shame Spiral Story
Fat Girl Book Club
06/25/20 • 36 min
A shorter episode! Some people might be happy about that. Others may wonder why no guest? You'll have to listen to find out!
This is about something that happened to me. Maybe it has happened to you too? I am standing in front of my closet, pulling out clothes that should fit but don't. How do I stop myself going into diet mode? I will take you through an exercise to help connect with your own diet story and I will talk about tools that if done regularly can help you to avoid regular spiralling.
Tools I talk about include:
- Prioritizing Rest with a discussion of Caroline Dooner's The Fuck It Diet
- Mantra Mediation with a discussion of Sonya Renee Taylor's The Body is Not an Apology
- Media Literacy with a discussion of Renee Engeln's Beauty Sick
- Compassion and Honoring your Feelings with a discussion of Sofie Hagen's Happy Fat
06/11/20 • 98 min
I am an avid podcast listener and when I found Fat. So? the podcast, I was in love. I have binge listened to the first season of Fat. So? twice! You will realize why I am in love, by listening to my interview with Ameya and Pallavi, the hosts of Fat. So?. We have a long discussion using Happy Fat by Sofie Hagen as the springboard. No topics are off the table in this discussion as we touch on:
- Their different fat liberation journeys
- How books have impacted their journeys
- What it means to grow and have break throughs in fat liberation
- Fat in three different languages
- Slurs and the word "Fat"
- Disagreement about the words overweight and morbidly obese
- Micro-aggressions toward fat people and why these are just so wrong
- Self-care and self-preservation as a fat woman
- A discussion about how there are more raped and murdered women on TV than there are fat women. Representation!!!!
- Why thin allies need to open their mouths when people make fun of fat people
- How they learned to love and appreciate their bodies
- Sex. Guys, we talk a lot about sex!
- Being fat in India
I learned a lot from these two amazing ladies. Their vulnerability and laughter just made my day. I hope you enjoy this conversation.
Links
Fat Shame by Amy Erdman Farrell with Amanda Martinez Beck
Fat Girl Book Club
05/28/20 • 66 min
Check off another first for the pod! Amanda Martinez Beck is my first return guest and I am delighted to chat to her again. She brought Fat Shame by Amy Erdman Farrell to me and I loved this academic read. We get into the weeds of what fat stigma is and how it connects to racism and feminism. Hold onto your hats ladies and gentlemen, this is a deep dive into some big concepts. Here is a brief list of what we discuss:
- How Amanda found this book
- The importance of the footnote
- Why do we as a culture have such a problem with bodies that are larger?
- The intersection of fat acceptance and racial discrimination
- The use of privilege
- What is fat stigma and how does if affect our everyday lives
- Historical hierarchies of people and what this means in terms of power dynamics
- Weight loss surgery studies as junk science
- Feminism and fat acceptance
- Why cancel culture is destructive
- The pressure on Oprah and the Obamas to be concerned with weight
- The future of fat acceptance
- The four levels of fat liberation
LINKS:
Beauty Sick by Renee Engeln with Vania Phitidis Part 1
Fat Girl Book Club
05/14/20 • 46 min
My discussion with Vania Phitidis about this amazing book went long. I didn't want to cut it so in another first for this podcast, I am releasing this conversation in two parts. In this part of the conversation we:
- Discuss Vania's body acceptance journey
- Talk about the turning point and the pivot that helped her to break up with diet culture
- Dive deep into health as a value
- Hear about how Vania's beauty routine has changed over the years
- Get into the importance of having support
I love this conversation and I know you will too. Make sure to subscribe to this podcast to get the second part the minute it is released.
Links:
Vania's website
https://peacefuleating.co.uk
Vania's Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/peacefuleatinguk/
Vania's Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/PeacefulEating/
Renee Engeln's Ted Talk
https://youtu.be/63XsokRPV_Y
Jenn's Website
www.iwishiwereme.com
Hunger by Roxane Gay with Nicola Haggett
Fat Girl Book Club
04/30/20 • 69 min
Nicola Haggett and I jumped into this Roxane Gay memoir and all its messiness. I loved this discussion because it really emphasizes how we can all become more empathetic to everyone who has a body, whether they are on a journey of body liberation or not.
Some of the things we talk about included:
- Nicola's body liberation journey
- Why the Body Trust philosophy appealed to Nicola
- Why Nicola loved this book
- Being ok with wanting your body to change even with the knowledge of weight science
- All the different meanings of hunger
- How we relate to fullness
- What it means to write your body story
- How Nicola found safety in her body
- Why this book is not a betrayal of the fat acceptance community
Links:
Nicola's website
https://nicolahaggett.com
Nicola's Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/nicolahaggett/
Hunger by Roxane Gay
https://www.amazon.ca/Hunger-Memoir-My-Body/dp/B071J95QC4/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Hunger+by+Roxane+Gay&qid=1588195904&sr=8-1
Be Nourished
https://benourished.org
I Wish I Were Me Website
http://iwishiwereme.com
Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere by Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby
Fat Girl Book Club
03/05/20 • 64 min
Normally my guest and I love the books we read but in this case, Debbie Lesko had some challenges with this book and I am so glad she did. Debbie Lesko runs the Facebook page and group, Diets Don't Work and some of the points she made about this book were valid and really important. We get into why just focusing on weight gain as the main problem with dieting is wrong and how the Health at Every Size movement has progressed since the writing of this book. We also talked about:
- Deb's eating disorder recovery journey
- The negative consequences that come from dieting beyond weight gain
- Buying clothes in a larger body
- Living life now and not waiting until you're thin
- Finding hobbies after dieting
- Why Deb keeps fighting too hard
- The concept of Baby Steps in our journeys
- Why mental health is something we should be talking about more
- Social media tips for curating your feed
- Updating the resources in the book
Links:
Diets Don't Work Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/DietsDontWorkditchdietculture/
Diets Don't Work Facebook Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/405546927065186/
Diets Don't Work Website
http://diets-dont-work.net
Diets Don't Work on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/diets_dont_work_haes/
Diets Don't Work on Twitter
https://twitter.com/deblesko
Books Mentioned:
Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere
https://www.amazon.ca/Lessons-Fat-sphere-Dieting-Declare-ebook/dp/B002361KAI/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Lessons+from+the+Fat-o-Sphere&qid=1583101487&s=books&sr=1-1
Body Respect
https://www.amazon.ca/Body-Respect-Conventional-Health-Understand/dp/1940363195/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Body+Respect&qid=1583101518&s=books&sr=1-1
The Body Is Not an Apology
https://www.amazon.ca/Body-Not-Apology-Radical-Self-Love/dp/1626569762/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2X04ZSIVSX706&keywords=the+body+is+not+an+apology&qid=1583101552&s=books&sprefix=The+Body+Is+%2Cstripbooks%2C198&sr=1-1
Anti-Diet
https://www.amazon.ca/Anti-Diet-Reclaim-Well-Being-Happiness-Intuitive/dp/0316420352/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Anti-Diet&qid=1583101575&s=books&sr=1-1
Embrace Yourself
https://www.amazon.ca/Embrace-Yourself-Taryn-Brumfitt/dp/0143787055/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Taryn+Brumfitt&qid=1583101718&s=books&sr=8-1
Dietland
https://www.amazon.ca/Dietland-Sarai-Walker/dp/0544704835/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Dietland&qid=1583101744&sr=8-1
Social Media
Virgie Tovar
https://www.instagram.com/virgietovar/
The Body is Not an Apology
https://www.instagram.com/thebodyisnotanapology/
Daring Fat
https://www.instagram.com/daringfat/
Your Fat Friend
https://twitter.com/yrfatfriend
The Kangaroo Sanctuary
https://www.facebook.com/thekangaroosanctuary/
Cats of Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/cats_of_instagram/
Podcasts
Its Not about the Food
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stefani-reinold/not-the-typical-momtm-show-with-stefani-reinold
Trust your Body Project
https://whitneycatalano.com/podcast/
Confidently She
https://www.rebekahbuege.com/the-podcast
Food Psych
https://christyharrison.com/foodpsych
The Fat Lip
http://thefatlip.com
Fat and Faithful
https://fatandfaithful.libsyn.com
I Wish I Were Me
http://iwishiwereme.com
Please connect with me on social media
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/I-Wish-I-Were-Me-463401447370876/?ref=bookmarks
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iwishiwereme/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/iwishiweremetwt
The Hundred Year Diet by Susan Yager with Emily Lubin
Fat Girl Book Club
12/09/21 • 78 min
I have never thrown out my questions when talking to a guest before, but I just had so much fun talking to Emily Lubin about The Hundred Year Diet by Susan Yager that I lost track of time and didn't ask anything I'd planned to! This book also provided us with lots to discuss. The 100 Year Diet was really problematic and triggering, so we were able to dive deep into some pretty nuanced discussion. Here are some of the things we talked about:
- Emily's anti-diet journey
- Dieting and children
- The hardest parts of intuitive eating for Emily
- Fad diets and why Emily will never eat ricotta cheese again
- Diet pills
- Why this book is so problematic!
- The food and sex relationship
- Blaming the individual for society's problems
- Politics and food
- The nuances of intuitive eating when not everyone has the same access to food
- Why treating weight first is not healthy
- The point the author is trying to make?
- Is there anything good about this book?
Fat Girl Book Club Links
Fat Girl Book Club Patreon page
The Better Body Image Book Club FB Group
Secrets from the Eating Lab Episode
Emily's Links
Book Recommendations
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FAQ
How many episodes does Fat Girl Book Club have?
Fat Girl Book Club currently has 85 episodes available.
What topics does Fat Girl Book Club cover?
The podcast is about Body Image, Society & Culture, Activism, Podcasts, Books and Arts.
What is the most popular episode on Fat Girl Book Club?
The episode title 'Your Better Body Image Checklist - Curate Your Social Media' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Fat Girl Book Club?
The average episode length on Fat Girl Book Club is 63 minutes.
How often are episodes of Fat Girl Book Club released?
Episodes of Fat Girl Book Club are typically released every 14 days.
When was the first episode of Fat Girl Book Club?
The first episode of Fat Girl Book Club was released on Nov 4, 2019.
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