104: Fat Discrimination and Oppression by Diet Culture with Virgie Tovar
In today's episode we explore the topic of fat discrimination and oppression by diet culture with author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat and expert on body justice and fat activist, Virgie Tovar.
We discuss:
Virgie's story of how she became an expert in fat discrimination and sexuality studies
What is fat phobia and how to recognize it
How diet culture is a form of oppression
Ways that diet culture is bigotry
How we can be better allies for fat acceptance
What is internalized inferiority and ways to recognize how you may feel inferior in your everyday life
Virgie Tovar is the author of…
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