Some Extra Fat Joy: 10 Qs with adrienne maree brown

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01/25/24 • 5 min

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A bonus minisode where each guest answers 10 surprising questions with unexpected results. Hilarity ensues.

A bonus minisode where each guest answers 10 surprising questions with unexpected results. Hilarity ensues.

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A Sovereign Journey With Our Body -- adrienne maree brown

adrienne maree brown (she/her and they/them) invites us into a powerful exploration of what it is to live in a body right now. Our challenges with being satisfied, our relationship to change and adaptation, and how kitchen table mediation may be a way forward with loved ones in times of conflict.

adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through her multi-genre writing, her music and her podcasts. Informed by 25 years of movement facilitation, somatics, Octavia E Butler scholarship and her work as a doula, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas and practices for transformation. She is the author/editor of several published texts, cogenerator of a tarot deck and a developing musical ritual.

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adrienne reads her poem, “A Spell for Reclaiming the Moment” from her book Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry.

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Plus-Size Pole Dancing -- Roz The Diva

(Content Note: clothing sizes and weight mentioned)

Roz “The Diva” Mays (she/her) started pole dancing because she wasn’t a runner, and 16 years later she’s a fitness entrepreneur who helps beginners feel ok about being “hot garbage” as they’re learning how to pole. Roz also shares why she doesn’t like the word fat, what happened when she DM’d some of her worst trolls, and how she’s reached racial nirvana.

NASM certified Roz Mays has dedicated many late nights at the gym to becoming a kickass personal trainer, pole diva and educator. She specializes in helping nontraditional athletes overcome gym-timiation through pole dancing, TRX, strength training and mobility work. Her talents have been featured in Google, Fitbit Premium, The New York Times, Glamour, and other really dope media organizations. When she isn’t half naked and sweaty, Diva’s usually making pancakes with Beyonce and Michelle Obama.

Please connect with Roz on Instagram, her website, and on Patreon.

This episode’s poem is called “God Says Yes To Me” by Kaylin Haught.

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