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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/164370496 Beatrice speaks with Da'Shaun L. Harrison about their book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness and the joined histories of eugenics and racial capitalism. Runtime 1:07:39 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179
In Part 1 we started discussing the study Two Years After Stopping GLP-1s, Most Patients Sustain at Least Some Weight Loss by Bartelt et al. which I identified as possibly the worst, and definitely among the top 3 worst, studies I've ever analyzed.In part 1 we talked about the platform (Epic Research), the researchers, and the basic methodology for reporting. Today we're going to get into the analysis. Remember that there are two sources, the first is the actual article, the second is what I am calling the supplementary materials that is a pdf that is linked (though not at all clearly) in the article.We'll compare the claims made in the article to the data shown in the supplementary materials. I think as we get into this it may be helpful (and maybe just a bit comforting) to remember that this was not published in a peer reviewed journal - it's Epic publishing Epic's research on Epic's website.We'll begin with the most basic claim: “we studied 188,722 patients who stopped using a GLP-1 medication after being on it for at least 90 days and who lost at least 5 pounds while on it.”You might be thinking “wait - in Part 1 you said the study population was 323,782, what happened to the other 135,060 people? Let's go on this journey together. We'll start by looking at their data. In the supplementary materials, Table 1: Characteristics of the Study Population looks like this:So they say in the article that they studied 188,722 patients but the very first line of the supplementary materials chart about the study population says that the total number of patients was 323,782. But it gets a bit weirder, if you add up all the participants in the different age categories you get 323,750, 32 short. If you add up the totals across the drug groups you do get 188,722, if you add up the participants in the weight loss category you get 323,782. If you add up the diabetic status you get 323,782. What is going on here? Maybe they originally looked at 323,782 records of which only 188,722 were not excluded for some reason, and maybe 32 of the participants did not have an age on their electronic health record? At least the number of people across the drug groups in the supplementary materials chart matches the number of people they claim to have studied but this is, in the absolute more charitable description, an extremely confusing way to present this data.In part 1 we discussed the fact that the inclusion criteria were not particularly stringent but the biggest issue, to me, is that the researchers appear to have just done calculations with whatever data they happened to have, but reported it and drew conclusions as if they had consistent data on all participants.For each of the three drug groups (semaglutide, liraglutide, tirzepatide), they present an interactive graph that shows “the proportion of patients by amount of weight regained or lost after stopping [liraglutide/semaglutide/tirzepatide].”Let's dig in.In the article we find Figure 1 - Proportion of Patients by Weight Change After Stopping Semaglutide we can see in the lower left “n=139,972 patients.”But if you look at the supplementary materials you find Table 2 Proportion of Patients by Weight Change After Stopping Semaglutide. This is the table from which they are drawing the data for Figure 1.The final column of the supplemental table is “patients” and the number in that column represents the number of the original 139,972 patients who had taken (and subsequently stopped taking) semaglutide for which the researchers had a weight at each month of their calculation. At month 1, the researchers had a weight for 68,754 of the patients and this number trends steadily downward until month 24 when they only had weights for 2,650 of the original 139,972 patients. At literally no point does Figure 1 in the original article give data for the n=139,972 patients the label claims.In the liraglutide group the graph in the article says n = 23,377. The supplementary tables show that in month 1 they had weights for 11,580. That steadily declined until month 24 they had weights for 1,268 of the population.In the tirzepatide group, the article says n= 25,373 patients. At month 1 they had weights for 12,909 patients which steadily declined until at at month 24 they only had a weight for 145 people (that is not a typo, they were doing the two year calculation upon which they drew their bold conclusions with only one hundred and forty five of the original 25k+ people represented!)This is such a bonkers way to do this that I actually emailed them, using the semaglutide table as an example, to make sure I was understanding this correctly. They assured me that I was:“Yes – there were 139,972 total patients on semaglutide who met the conditions in the study cohort. The patient count in Table 2 represents the number of patients that had a weight reading in a given month, so patients can be represented in multiple months.”So let's discuss the “key findings”At 24 months post-cessation, 56% of semaglutide, 52% of liraglutide, and 55% of tirzepatide patients kept the weight off or lost additional weight.Complete weight regain occurred in 23% of semaglutide, 21% of tirzepatide, and 27% of liraglutide users at 24 months.Weight trajectories stabilized after 12 months, with only small variations in the distribution of weight outcomes through year two.Remember that when they state these 24 month findings (or when in the title they say “Most Patients Sustain at Least Some Weight Loss,”) these statistics are drawn from information for only 1.9% of the semaglutide group, 5.4% of the liraglutide group, and 0.57% of the tirzepatide group. When they say kept the weight off or lost additional weight, subjects would qualify if they maintained 1% of the weight they lost. EDIT - I'm adding this paragraph for additional clarification based on a great comment below. If you look at their percentages, it can seem like a lot of people didn't regain weight. For example in the Semaglutide group, for example, at 1 month the “doubled their weight loss group” was 5.01% of 68,754 participants. That's that's about 892 people which is 0.64% of the original 139,972 people. At 24 months it was 25.89% of 2,650 people. That's about 686 people which is about 0.49% of the original 139,972 people. As I mentioned in part 1, we also don't know if this miniscule percentage of the total group even actually stopped taking the drugs, or if they started getting them from a different source that did not add them to their medical chart.What happened to the 98.1% of the semaglutide group, 94.6% of the liraglutide group, and the staggering 99.43% of the tirzepatide group for whom the researchers did NOT have a weight at 24 months? Is it more likely that people who were regaining weight did not come back to get weighed in? These researchers have absolutely no idea and they don't seem to care.(They said that weight trajectories stabilized at 12 months so even if we look at the data at 12 months they only had weights for 12.7% of the semaglutide group, 18.5% of the liraglutide group, and 8.1% of the tirzepatide group.)Under limitations they state “We allow a patient to be included in each month, using their highest weight in that month. Patients who have repeated weight measurements might be the extremes of weight change.”Gentle readers, I would say that this is the least of their limitations. The fact that they are stating these incredibly broad conclusions about weight regain (including in the title!) based on a tiny fraction of the data they've led us to believe is included, and that they AT NO POINT disclose any of that in the main paper is, to me, unforgivable. Horrifyingly, in researching this piece I found other studies that actually cited this one so I'll end this by saying that this study completely lacks the academic rigor or appropriate methodology necessary to be used to counter research showing high rates of weight regain after GLP-1 cessation. GLP-1s are being taken by a huge percentage of people and being prescribed (and in some cases pushed) by many prescribers, research like this has the potential to do incredible harm by generating blatant misinformation. We have to do a whole lot better than this.This month's online workshop is How to Be Your Own Medical Advocate. You'll learn strategies to advocate for yourself to help you get the evidence-based, compassionate, healthcare you deserve, and what your options are if you don't. There's a pay-what-you-can option to make sure money isn't a barrier and all registrants get a video in case you can't make it live. Details and registration are here! If you appreciate the work I do here, you can support my ability to do more becoming a free or paid subscriber!Liked the piece? Share the piece!More researchThe Research PostMore resourcesThe Resource Post*Note on language: I use “fat” as a neutral descriptor as used by the fat activist community, I use “ob*se” and “overw*ight” to acknowledge that these are terms that were created to medicalize and pathologize fat bodies, with roots in racism and specifically anti-Blackness. Please read Sabrina Strings' Fearing the Black Body – the Racial Origins of Fat Phobia and Da'Shaun Harrison's Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness for more on this. Get full access to Weight and Healthcare at weightandhealthcare.substack.com/subscribe
There is a clear connection between anti-Blackness and racism to the state of the political economy of the United States. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the piece “Over 160 Years After Abolition, Anti-Black Racism Still Structures US Economy” by CJ Polychroniou in Truthout, which is a conversation between CJ Polychroniou and economic scholars Michelle Holder and Jeannette Wicks-Lim about how anti-Blackness and racism have developed in the contemporary United States and their role on our political economy, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation. Follow us on social media and visit our website! Patreon, Website, Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, Facebook, YouTube, Leave us a voice message, Merch store
Our communities are under increased attack again. Please do the real world change work in anyway you can. Check out the resources from Immigrant Defense Project and donate if you can https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/for-communities/Additional State by state Resources here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sbsn9Z0do9RoEtTlMIBBZlHiAz1QwcyTaLWxg-PuZMA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.viado4is3of3Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities.It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the constant cycles of organizing, marching and fighting with little noticeable change. The crew begins the final seal, it is time to succeed or fail. Content Warnings: Series wide content warnings include, Violence, Manipulation, State Surveillance, Police and Police Violence, Player Conflict, Gentrification, Racism, Unwanted Romantic Gestures, Anti-Blackness, Sexism, Tension, Body Paralysis, Trauma, Monstrous forms, Complicated Relationships, Sex, Toxic Work Environments, Death, Hopelessness, Blood, Eldrich Horror, Colonization, and Existential Crisis and Dread.CAST:Synxiec as Romero Marcus the Targetedhttps://bsky.app/profile/synxiec.blacksky.appEmrys as Genissa Wallace the Human Street Medichttps://linktr.ee/dragonemrysBluu as Ruin the Social Media Vampire Demonhttps://kyngvee.carrd.co/https://beacons.ai/baddiebardsAndCassie as the Storytellerhttps://bio.link/mentalwokeEpisodes Edited by:Marissa Ewing-Moody of Hemlock Creek Productionshttps://www.hemlockcreekprod.com/NOTE: While some cast members are mental health professionals, nothing in this episode or series is medical advice. We speak to our lived experiences. If you have concerns please contact someone in your community of care and/or seek out an appropriate professional. No podcast can or should be used as a substitute for a relationship with a doctor, therapist or other trained professional.Background music and sound from Epidemic Sound : https://www.epidemicsound.com
The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 8th session on Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In the Age of Colorblindness. Alexander has a living White mother and a deceased black father. Despite 15 years of institutional celebration for her work, Gus T. anticipated this title being one of the "5 Worst Books Ever." History shows that racists generally do not promote literature that provides an accurate understanding of the System of White Supremacy. Deception by Omission: A serious exploration of prisons and Racism must account for the systemic forces that built them. This book's failure to center COINTELPRO, the torture legacy of Chicago's Jon Burge, or the raw profitability of caging Black men suggests Alexander is guilty of a whole lot of lying. Last week's review included: 1. The "Basically" Deception & The Audio Patch: Alexander claims the 10th Anniversary edition is "basically" the same book. Yet, each week listeners stumble into brand-new pages of text offering substantially alternate information from what Alexander previously scrawled. 2. Undermining Her Own Thesis: While most edits involve new content, last week revealed a rare deletion from the 10th-anniversary edition. The original version notes “racial bias in a system that purports to be colorblind.” The term purport suggests White people are not vision-restricted, but rather, willfully focused on caging infinite numbers of Black men. Removing this sentence suggests Alexander is aware of the lies she's peddling. 3. Sleeping With The Prosecutor: Alexander details the life-altering power and discretion prosecuting attorneys wield over non-white defendants. Because of this, listeners questioned why the author failed to disclose her husband Carter Stewart's extensive prosecutorial conduct, and how his career affirms the very system she critiques. #COINTELPRO #TheRedboneDeception #BillCosby #TheCOWS17Years INVEST in The COWS – [http://paypal.me/TheCOWS](http://paypal.me/TheCOWS) Cash App: [https://cash.app/$TheCOWS](https://cash.app/$TheCOWS) CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943#
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/153205544 Beatrice speaks with Da'Shaun L. Harrison about how the body itself is being mobilized as a nationalist symbol under the second Trump administration and what it will take to fight back. Read Da'Shaun's piece here: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/03/let-us-explain-body-fascism/ Find Da'Shaun's book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781623175979 Runtime 1:27:05 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179
Our communities are under increased attack again. Please do the real world change work in anyway you can. Check out the resources from Immigrant Defense Project and donate if you can https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/for-communities/Additional State by state Resources here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sbsn9Z0do9RoEtTlMIBBZlHiAz1QwcyTaLWxg-PuZMA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.viado4is3of3Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities.It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the constant cycles of organizing, marching and fighting with little noticeable change. The crew starts to uncover the extent of the changes and issues that have arisen while they were away. Content Warnings: Series wide content warnings include, Violence, Manipulation, State Surveillance, Police and Police Violence, Player Conflict, Gentrification, Racism, Unwanted Romantic Gestures, Anti-Blackness, Sexism, Tension, Body Paralysis, Trauma, Monstrous forms, Complicated Relationships, Sex, Toxic Work Environments, Death, Hopelessness, Blood, Eldrich Horror, Colonization, and Existential Crisis and Dread.CAST:Synxiec as Romero Marcus the Targetedhttps://bsky.app/profile/synxiec.blacksky.appEmrys as Genissa Wallace the Human Street Medichttps://linktr.ee/dragonemrysBluu as Ruin the Social Media Vampire Demonhttps://kyngvee.carrd.co/https://beacons.ai/baddiebardsAndCassie as the Storytellerhttps://bio.link/mentalwokeEpisodes Edited by:Marissa Ewing-Moody of Hemlock Creek Productionshttps://www.hemlockcreekprod.com/NOTE: While some cast members are mental health professionals, nothing in this episode or series is medical advice. We speak to our lived experiences. If you have concerns please contact someone in your community of care and/or seek out an appropriate professional. No podcast can or should be used as a substitute for a relationship with a doctor, therapist or other trained professional.Background music and sound from Epidemic Sound : https://www.epidemicsound.com
Michael Thornhill's book, The First, The Few and The Only, is available through the official book site and shop. The site describes Thornhill as an AfroCuban author, consultant, and recovering DEI practitioner whose work explores race, erasure, tokenism, and mixed identity in North America. Book / author links: https://www.thefirstthefewandtheonly.com/about Official book site: https://www.thefirstthefewandtheonly.com/shop Instagram: @thefirstthefewandtheonly Telling the Truth and Taking Your Story Seriously Michael “The first thing that comes to mind for the listeners is you need to take your story seriously enough to tell the truth. If you're going to write anything… you need to be honest. And if I remember your question correctly, to anyone who's the first, few, and the only, what that means is if you've ever been the only one with your face in the room, when you enter a room, you find yourself counting how many brown faces are there all the time at the church, on the school bus, in the youth group. If you've gotten so used to counting that you forget you're doing it, this book is for you.” “I wrote something called a mirror memoir and what that means to me is a phrase I coined to basically reflect what black and brown people do whenever they get together and discuss what's happened to them in a white world, that whether across lunch tables or whispered in hallways, you end up regurgitating something that happened to you and then next thing you know, the space between you becomes a mirror because you're kind of like, ‘Oh yeah, that happened to me too.'” “They feel well worn. They don't have their shock impact. There's not as much of a recoil and of course they feel old, but they also feel not polished in a sense of pedestal, but in a sense of a smooth rock that's been beat up by the waves against this cliff and they're like gems now. It just feels like something that's been well beaten down to the point of beauty and I feel it and yet it also feels good to name because it's like my body isn't the cage for it anymore.” Well, first I guess I would have to believe that there was or is an actual political dialogue taking place that I could potentially be a part of. And honestly, I'm not sure that I believe that.
Our communities are under increased attack again. Please do the real world change work in anyway you can. Check out the resources from Immigrant Defense Project and donate if you can https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/for-communities/Additional State by state Resources here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sbsn9Z0do9RoEtTlMIBBZlHiAz1QwcyTaLWxg-PuZMA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.viado4is3of3Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities.It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the constant cycles of organizing, marching and fighting with little noticeable change. The crew returns after breaking a seal to find that they were gone longer than anticipated. Content Warnings: Series wide content warnings include, Violence, Manipulation, State Surveillance, Police and Police Violence, Player Conflict, Gentrification, Racism, Unwanted Romantic Gestures, Anti-Blackness, Sexism, Tension, Body Paralysis, Trauma, Monstrous forms, Complicated Relationships, Sex, Toxic Work Environments, Death, Hopelessness, Blood, Eldrich Horror, Colonization, and Existential Crisis and Dread.CAST:Synxiec as Romero Marcus the Targetedhttps://bsky.app/profile/synxiec.blacksky.appEmrys as Genissa Wallace the Human Street Medichttps://linktr.ee/dragonemrysBluu as Ruin the Social Media Vampire Demonhttps://kyngvee.carrd.co/https://beacons.ai/baddiebardsAndCassie as the Storytellerhttps://bio.link/mentalwokeEpisodes Edited by:Marissa Ewing-Moody of Hemlock Creek Productionshttps://www.hemlockcreekprod.com/NOTE: While some cast members are mental health professionals, nothing in this episode or series is medical advice. We speak to our lived experiences. If you have concerns please contact someone in your community of care and/or seek out an appropriate professional. No podcast can or should be used as a substitute for a relationship with a doctor, therapist or other trained professional.Background music and sound from Epidemic Sound : https://www.epidemicsound.com
Our communities are under increased attack again. Please do the real world change work in anyway you can. Check out the resources from Immigrant Defense Project and donate if you can https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/for-communities/Additional State by state Resources here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sbsn9Z0do9RoEtTlMIBBZlHiAz1QwcyTaLWxg-PuZMA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.viado4is3of3Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the constant cycles of organizing, marching and fighting with little noticeable change. This is a talkback episode discussing through episode 24 so there will be spoilers if you have not listened to episodes 1 -24. Talkback Content Warnings: Please be aware that talkback episodes cover a wide range of topics which may be hard for some listeners. Topics include but are not limited to : Suicide, Death, Depression, Anti-Blackness, Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Police, State Sanctioned Murder, Complicated Relationships, Sex and Sexuality, Hopelessness, Financial Anxiety, and Strong language.CAST: Synxiec as Romero Marcus the Targeted https://bsky.app/profile/synxiec.bsky.socialEmrys as Genissa Wallace the Human Street Medic https://linktr.ee/dragonemrysBluu as Ruin the Social Media Vampire Demon https://kyngvee.carrd.co/https://beacons.ai/baddiebardsAnd Cassie as the Storytellerhttps://bio.link/mentalwokeEpisodes Edited by: Marissa Ewing-Moody of Hemlock Creek Productionshttps://www.hemlockcreekprod.com/NOTE: While some cast members are mental health professionals, nothing in this episode or series is medical advice. We speak to our lived experiences. If you have concerns please contact someone in your community of care and/or seek out an appropriate professional. No podcast can or should be used as a substitute for a relationship with a doctor, therapist or other trained professional.Background music and sound from Epidemic Sound : https://www.epidemicsound.com
The Context of White Supremacy hosts the Counter-Racist Weekly Review 05/02/26. This broadcast examines current events from across the globe to learn what's happening in all areas of people activity. We cultivate Counter-Racist Media Literacy by scrutinizing journalists' word choices and using logic to deconstruct what is reported as "news." We'll use these sessions to hone our use of terms as tools to reveal truth, neutralize Racists/White people. [#ANTIBLACKNESS](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/antiblackness?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZbe4W_h4UjFI3zyuftCMKUZNG0cXU96nDbjYbJ4JnEwCoAHiGoWO31Ku6mdvVXDwgpN_Eww49InrU-ugQ0-64KmA3YM-Qnn2iI9XETRovv2llSaYqNvPXQCVSsQVY8b94Lrc-I8JzB7Yt8Oxyzp51Ec&__tn__=q) This week, many US news outlets devoted lots of time to discuss the Supreme Court discussion which restricts the Voting Rights Act to flagrant, telegraphed acts of White Supremacy. Any Refined acts of White Supremacy to minimize black voter efficacy or voting access violates no laws, causes no harm.The highest court in the land is also reviewing the temporary protected status for non-white Haitians and other immigrants. Both of these acts - deportation of undocumented non-white people and the dilution of the Voting Rights Acts - are responses to White Genetic Annihilation. All of this conduct is an effort to bolster a perceived or actual threat to white numerical majority in the US. Interestingly, another aspect of White Genetic Annihilation and the threat of non-white people, is the aging White population. If fact, some geriatric Racist Suspects are hoping the Haitians and other dark health care providers get to hang out in the states to keep their bedpans empty and medication organized. [#EndStageWhiteSupremacy](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/endstagewhitesupremacy?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZbe4W_h4UjFI3zyuftCMKUZNG0cXU96nDbjYbJ4JnEwCoAHiGoWO31Ku6mdvVXDwgpN_Eww49InrU-ugQ0-64KmA3YM-Qnn2iI9XETRovv2llSaYqNvPXQCVSsQVY8b94Lrc-I8JzB7Yt8Oxyzp51Ec&__tn__=q) #COINTELPRO # #TheCOWS17Years INVEST in The COWS – [http://paypal.me/TheCOWS](http://paypal.me/TheCOWS) Cash App: [https://cash.app/$TheCOWS](https://cash.app/$TheCOWS) CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943#
This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing!Diabetes Prevention Programs are a group of programs that are created to prevent the onset of Type 2 Diabetes, often in people who have been identified as at-risk. Most include behavior changes, social support, and include weight loss as a metric and/or the primary outcome. The assumption is typically that any health changes and/or reductions in the development of T2D are because of any weight loss. In discussing these programs previously I've expressed the concern that any differences in health/T2D development were more likely due to behavior changes/support than any weight loss and that, because of their insistence on a weight-loss focus, the programs likely included much more restriction than is necessary to create any health changes, which could create harms including weight cycling (which can actually drive T2D,) weight stigma (which can actually drive T2D,) and disengagement from behaviors that might actually support health and make T2D less likely (with the clear and critical understanding that whether or not someone develops T2D involves myriad factors, many of which are completely outside of their control, including genetics.)Enter the new systematic review “Potential mechanisms for change in diabetes prevention programs” which sought “to investigate potential mechanisms for change in diabetes prevention programs (DPPs), and assess the strength of associations.” Their hypothesis was that “ Weight loss would be less strongly associated with improved health than other mechanisms.” SummaryA group of researchers, several of whom work in weight inclusive Type 2 Diabetes preventions and management, sought to fill a gap in research around Diabetes Prevention Programs (DPPs). These program seek to delay/prevent onset of Type 2 Diabetes and typically include multiple interventions but often target an end goal of weight loss. There is a significant lack of research that even attempts to determine which aspects of DPPs might actually be responsible for any benefits and which might be unhelpful or cause harm. These researchers undertook a systematic review to attempt to determine just that. The AuthorsWe'll begin, as we always do, with the authors. Spoiler alert, this is going to be much shorter than these typically are. The study received no funding and the authors disclosed no conflicts of interest. I'll do my usual deeper dive into their work and, as a reminder, working in the space in which you are researching is not considered a conflict of interest that requires disclosure but is something that always makes me give extra scrutiny to methodology. As usual, if you want to skip this part you can scroll down to where it says “The Study.”Margit I. Berman is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of St. Thomas. Dr. Berman is the author of a “A Clinician's Guide to Acceptance-Based Approaches for Weight Concerns: The Accept Yourself! Framework” This is not a DPP program but does have a section on Health at Every Size™ approaches to Diabetes and Cardiovascular Health. [Note: that Health at Every Size is the trademarked brand of the Association for Size Diversity and Health) Martha Burla - per LinkedIn currently works at the Feinberg School of Medicine in the Department of Medical Social Sciences where she supports research on patient reported outcomes and shared decision making. She is also pursuing a PhD in Health Sciences from Rush University with the hope of continuing to research patient decision making and autonomy.Hannah Martin - per her Linkedin she is a PhD candidate at the University of Otago, Dunedin New Zealand. Her research focuses on Intuitive EatingMegrette Fletcher - is the owner of Inclusive Diabetes Care, LLC which offers free and paid resources for weight-inclusive diabetes care. Full disclosure, Megrette and I have worked together including speaking on the same panel and on a writing project.Elizabeth A. Michaels - per LinkedIn, works at Christopher Rural Health Planning Corporation Primary Care including Coordination of Diabetes Program in accordance with AADE Standards , Individualized Nutrition Consultation and Diet Instruction, Nutrition Therapy for Emotional Eating, Personalized Meal Plans and Recipe Development, Provision and Marketing of Community Health Classes, Development of Educational Resources and Materials, Diabetes Medication and Insulin Management, Continuous Quality Improvement Tracking, Patient Goal Setting and Ongoing Support, Auditor AADE Programs, and Development and initiation of CDCs Diabetes Prevention ProgramLauren Brittany Beach- Per LinkedIn they are an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University's Department of Medicine Social Sciences and Department of Preventive Medicine in the Feinberg School of Medicine and “a leader with a strong track record of scientific research and business development across a wide variety of therapeutic areas, including infectious disease, oncology, cardiology, endocrinology, nephrology, rare disease, and more. In my roles as Assistant Professor, ADVOCATE Center Director, and Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center Executive Team member at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, I am recognized for innovative and high impact contributions in research, mentorship, education, and service. I have 20 years of experience translating results from cutting-edge science into narratives that resonate with funding agencies, regulators, clinicians, and the public. I have experience directing interdisciplinary teams in the United States and globally of up to 60 people to solve complex research and operational challenges on time and on budget. Trained in genetics, law, and epidemiology, I am a skilled data scientist and technical writer with experience in research and regulatory communication in both the discovery and clinical research domains.”Michelle L. May - per LinkedIn May is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at Arizona State University and the creator of the Am I Hungry? Mindful eating program offering “experiential mindful eating workshops, retreats, and corporate wellness programs. We have trained over 800 health and wellness professionals in over 40+ countries to offer mindful eating programs, coaching, and therapy in their communities, practices, and workplaces.“Pamela J. Bagley - per LinkedIn Bagley is Coordinator of Biomedical Research Support at Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries.Heather B. Blunt - is a Research and Education Librarian, Public Health Lead in Medical and Health Sciences at the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries with subspecialties in Medical and Health SciencesThe StudyThe authors begin by explaining diabetes prevention programs (DPPs), including that they can vary but often have multiple components including medical and/or psychosocial interventions. They point to the DPP-ILI (Intensive Lifestyle Intervention) as a typical intervention that focuses on creating 7% weight loss using multiple components. They also point out that in one study the DPP-ILI reduced diabetes incidence by 58% compared to a placebo, but that participants don't necessarily find the program either “helpful or tolerable” and the programs often having drop out rates from 40-80%. They also note that the DPP-ILI contains multiple elements - change in weight, physical activity, food, social support, psychological change, education, and self-monitoring and self-awareness that may impact onset of diabetes. Finally, the authors point out that “despite their efficacy, it is possible that DPPs may include harmful elements such as exposure to weight stigma or healthism.” I'll also add, based on about 100 years of research, exposure to the harms of weight cycling since the vast majority of people who lose weight will gain it back.Here the researchers hit on an issue I would suggest is not just with DPPs but with all health interventions that are based on weight loss. As these authors put it, “it is striking how little is known about which components of these interventions cause a delay in diabetes onset, and which components may cause harm.” As is, again, the case with almost all, if not all , research that tries to claim that weight loss create health benefits, more than twenty years in, the research into the DPP-ILI “was not designed to test the relative contributions of dietary changes, increased physical activity, and weight loss to the reduction in the risk of diabetes.” Given our culture's obsession with weight loss (driven by, and with tremendous profit to, the weight loss industry,) the assumption with the DPP (and in general) is always that weight loss (and, typically, very small amounts of weight loss) causes health benefits, literally ignoring all of the behavior changes and other components that precede both the (small, typically temporary) weight loss and the health changes/benefits. The researchers note that “clinicians have focused on the importance of weight loss…recommending weight loss, however, may be a particularly likely candidate to cause harmful or null effects in DPPs.”Considering weight loss, the researchers note that long-term weight loss is “not achievable for most people” and, further, that weight loss programs can induce or exacerbate weight stigma and expose participants to discrimination. They point out that despite the “transient” nature of weight loss in DPPS, “the delayed onset of diabetes can be largely retained, suggesting that mechanisms other than weight loss may contribute to the benefits.”In part 2 we'll look at the study methodology and what they found.If you think my work is valuable, and you want to support my ability to do it, you can become a free or paid subscriber. Both support the work I do here! Liked the piece? Share the piece!More researchThe Research PostMore resourcesThe Resource Post*Note on language: I use “fat” as a neutral descriptor as used by the fat activist community, I use “ob*se” and “overw*ight” to acknowledge that these are terms that were created to medicalize and pathologize fat bodies, with roots in racism and specifically anti-Blackness. Please read Sabrina Strings' Fearing the Black Body – the Racial Origins of Fat Phobia and Da'Shaun Harrison's Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness for more on this. Get full access to Weight and Healthcare at weightandhealthcare.substack.com/subscribe
Our communities are under increased attack again. Please do the real world change work in anyway you can. Check out the resources from Immigrant Defense Project and donate if you can https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/for-communities/Additional State by state Resources here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sbsn9Z0do9RoEtTlMIBBZlHiAz1QwcyTaLWxg-PuZMA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.viado4is3of3Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. **This episode contains gun violence and police violence. Please take care as you listen **It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the constant cycles of organizing, marching and fighting with little noticeable change. Betrayal plagues our crew as they continue the fight for a second seal.Content Warnings: Series wide content warnings include, Violence, Manipulation, State Surveillance, Police and Police Violence, Player Conflict, Gentrification, Racism, Unwanted Romantic Gestures, Anti-Blackness, Sexism, Tension, Body Paralysis, Trauma, Monstrous forms, Complicated Relationships, Sex, Toxic Work Environments, Death, Hopelessness, Blood, Eldrich Horror, Colonization, and Existential Crisis and Dread.CAST:Synxiec as Romero Marcus the Targetedhttps://bsky.app/profile/synxiec.blacksky.appEmrys as Genissa Wallace the Human Street Medichttps://linktr.ee/dragonemrysBluu as Ruin the Social Media Vampire Demonhttps://kyngvee.carrd.co/https://beacons.ai/baddiebardsAndCassie as the Storytellerhttps://bio.link/mentalwokeEpisodes Edited by:Marissa Ewing-Moody of Hemlock Creek Productionshttps://www.hemlockcreekprod.com/NOTE: While some cast members are mental health professionals, nothing in this episode or series is medical advice. We speak to our lived experiences. If you have concerns please contact someone in your community of care and/or seek out an appropriate professional. No podcast can or should be used as a substitute for a relationship with a doctor, therapist or other trained professional.Background music and sound from Epidemic Sound : https://www.epidemicsound.com
Our communities are under increased attack again. Please do the real world change work in anyway you can. Check out the resources from Immigrant Defense Project and donate if you can https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/for-communities/Additional State by state Resources here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sbsn9Z0do9RoEtTlMIBBZlHiAz1QwcyTaLWxg-PuZMA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.viado4is3of3Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. **This episode contains gun violence and police violence. Please take care as you listen **It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the constant cycles of organizing, marching and fighting with little noticeable change. Our crew continues to face the trauma of the seal and tries to reunite. Content Warnings: Series wide content warnings include, Violence, Manipulation, State Surveillance, Police and Police Violence, Player Conflict, Gentrification, Racism, Unwanted Romantic Gestures, Anti-Blackness, Sexism, Tension, Body Paralysis, Trauma, Monstrous forms, Complicated Relationships, Sex, Toxic Work Environments, Death, Hopelessness, Blood, Eldrich Horror, Colonization, and Existential Crisis and Dread.CAST:Synxiec as Romero Marcus the Targetedhttps://bsky.app/profile/synxiec.blacksky.appEmrys as Genissa Wallace the Human Street Medichttps://linktr.ee/dragonemrysBluu as Ruin the Social Media Vampire Demonhttps://kyngvee.carrd.co/https://beacons.ai/baddiebardsAndCassie as the Storytellerhttps://bio.link/mentalwokeEpisodes Edited by:Marissa Ewing-Moody of Hemlock Creek Productionshttps://www.hemlockcreekprod.com/NOTE: While some cast members are mental health professionals, nothing in this episode or series is medical advice. We speak to our lived experiences. If you have concerns please contact someone in your community of care and/or seek out an appropriate professional. No podcast can or should be used as a substitute for a relationship with a doctor, therapist or other trained professional.Background music and sound from Epidemic Sound : https://www.epidemicsound.com
Part 1:We talk with Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, freelance journalist and book author.We discuss the problem of worker shortage. This 'shortage' can be attributed to the managers, who choose to reduce their operating costs by not hiring enough workers to perform the needed tasks. Consumers' expectations are being managed by corporations to believe that they should perform many self-service tasks versus having an employee help. This can cause dangerous outcomes: wrong prescriptions filled, incorrect instruction on using dangerous devices, no or delayed service in treating injuries or accidents, etc.Part 2:We talk with Prof. Jonathan Feingold of Boston University as part of Race Class.Ep. 59 | You Cant Combat Racism if You Dont Name RacismJon and Arnie discuss the many segregationist and white supremacist dimensions of the Trump administrations war on multiracial democracy. To map the assault on equality and democracy, we engage a recent report from the African American Policy Forum titled: Antiblackness is the Point: Racism, Misogyny, and Donald Trumps Assault on Equal Opportunity. The AAPF report connects todays racial fascism to the 19thRedeemers who employed a combination of racist rhetoric, policy and historical narratives meant to rationalize white male domination and undo the gains of post-Civil War Reconstruction. We also touch upon Toni Morrisions 1995 essay Racism and Fascism, which offers a useful framework for understanding the tactics the Trump regime is employing to dehumanize and brutalize so many communities in the United States. The conversation leads to a pressing question: Why do so many of todays democracy defenders continue to sideline Trumps racism when challenging Trumps policies? If we dont name racism, how can we hope to combat it?Jonathan FeingoldProfessor of LawBoston University School of Lawjfeingol@bu.edu|#RaceClass Podcast|researchWNHNFM.ORG productionMusic: "Masters of War", Bob Dylan, 1963
Mike talks with writer/director Maya Annik Bedward about her feature documentary Black Zombie (2026). The film looks at Haitian Vodou and how it's been been bastardized by Hollywood in films from early works like White Zombie to modern movies like World War Z and everywhere in-between.The film had its premiere at SXSW 2026. Find out more at https://www.instagram.com/blackzombiemovie/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth
Mike talks with writer/director Maya Annik Bedward about her feature documentary Black Zombie (2026). The film looks at Haitian Vodou and how it's been been bastardized by Hollywood in films from early works like White Zombie to modern movies like World War Z and everywhere in-between.The film had its premiere at SXSW 2026. Find out more at https://www.instagram.com/blackzombiemovie/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth
Hear travel stories from Equatorial Guinea to Brazil & how Dash works to dismantle anti-Blackness in Latinx communities. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE In Part 2 of this conversation, Peabody Award–winning producer and historian Dash Harris unpacks the ideology of mestizaje and explains how narratives of racial mixing have obscured anti-Blackness across Latin America and its diaspora. She discusses why she rejects the umbrella identity of “Latina,” drawing on Black feminist scholarship, her workshops on dismantling anti-Blackness in Latinx communities, and her own experiences traveling and researching Afro-descendant cultures around the world. Dash tells stories from visiting Equatorial Guinea—the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa—and compares Afro-diasporic histories across continents. She also shares observations from Salvador, Brazil about tourism, memory, and the politics of Black cultural spaces. Finally, she recommends some of her favorite music—from Afro-Cuban traditions to Afro-Colombian and Brazilian sounds. → Full show notes with direct links to everything discussed are available here. ============================ FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU: See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that's not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ============================ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram and DM Matt to continue the conversation Please leave a rating and review — it really helps the show and I read each one personally You can buy me a coffee — espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)
Our communities are under increased attack again. Please do the real world change work in anyway you can. Check out the resources from Immigrant Defense Project and donate if you can https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/for-communities/Additional State by state Resources here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sbsn9Z0do9RoEtTlMIBBZlHiAz1QwcyTaLWxg-PuZMA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.viado4is3of3Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the constant cycles of organizing, marching and fighting with little noticeable change. Our crew makes their way to their next seal at a coffee shop. Can they handle their fears? Content Warnings: Series wide content warnings include, Violence, Manipulation, State Surveillance, Police and Police Violence, Player Conflict, Gentrification, Racism, Unwanted Romantic Gestures, Anti-Blackness, Sexism, Tension, Body Paralysis, Trauma, Monstrous forms, Complicated Relationships, Sex, Toxic Work Environments, Death, Hopelessness, Blood, Eldrich Horror, Colonization, and Existential Crisis and Dread. CAST:Synxiec as Romero Marcus the Targetedhttps://bsky.app/profile/synxiec.blacksky.appEmrys as Genissa Wallace the Human Street Medichttps://linktr.ee/dragonemrysBluu as Ruin the Social Media Vampire Demonhttps://kyngvee.carrd.co/https://beacons.ai/baddiebardsAndCassie as the Storytellerhttps://bio.link/mentalwokeEpisodes Edited by:Marissa Ewing-Moody of Hemlock Creek Productionshttps://www.hemlockcreekprod.com/NOTE: While some cast members are mental health professionals, nothing in this episode or series is medical advice. We speak to our lived experiences. If you have concerns please contact someone in your community of care and/or seek out an appropriate professional. No podcast can or should be used as a substitute for a relationship with a doctor, therapist or other trained professional.Background music and sound from Epidemic Sound : https://www.epidemicsound.com
The Context of White Supremacy hosts the Counter-Racist Weekly Review 03/21/26. This broadcast examines current events from across the globe to learn what's happening in all areas of people activity. We cultivate Counter-Racist Media Literacy by scrutinizing journalists' word choices and using logic to deconstruct what is reported as "news." We'll use these sessions to hone our use of terms as tools to reveal truth, neutralize Racists/White people. #ANTIBLACKNESS 65 Years after the assassination and dismemberment of the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Congo, a Belgian Suspected Race Soldier and retired diplomat is being prosecuted for the murder of Patrice Lumumba. Étienne Davignon is 93 years old and believed to be the last living White person responsible for the assassination. Gus also highlights the case of Manheim Township Official Peter Caci, who is accused of racially terrorizing two separate non-white female motorists. White people report there has been a substantial increase in the number of fatal road rage incidents. Gus suggests that non-white people refrain from engaging in or escalating conflict while driving. Many White and non-white drivers are armed. We also review the impact of the US fuel and oil blockade on the island of Cuba, where inhabitants experienced a total blackout this week for the 3rd time this month. #COINTELPRO #TheCOWS17Years INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943#
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/153205544 Beatrice speaks with Da'Shaun L. Harrison about how the body itself is being mobilized as a nationalist symbol under the second Trump administration and what it will take to fight back. Read Da'Shaun's piece here: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/03/let-us-explain-body-fascism/ Find Da'Shaun's book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781623175979 Runtime 1:27:05 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523
In today's episode of Psych Talk I chat with Dr. Mazella Fuller, LCSW, clinical advisor to Eating Recovery Center, Duke-trained integrative health coach, clinical consultant for the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals and social justice advocate. Dr. Fuller shares her lifelong journey with social justice and how it led her to the work she does today. We discuss racism and other "isms" when it comes to mental health care and disparities seen in mental health care and treatment because of these "isms". We spend some time discussing eating disorders in Black women and disparities these individuals face. Dr. Fuller discusses how clinicians can address racism in mental health systems and treatment and we broaden the discussion to patterns of anti-blackness across medicine, academia, and business. We discuss systems changes that need to be made if institutions are actually interested in diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as steps that can be taken to advocate for marginalize communities. We also discuss allyship in non-Black individuals.Connect with Dr. Fuller:Website: www.radicalhealing.coEmail: mazella@radicalhealing.usBooks: Antiblackness and the Stories of Authentic AlliesTreating Black Women with Eating DisordersPlease purchase Dr. Fuller's books from small bookstores if possibleConnect with Me:Follow me on IG @jessicaleighphdFollow the podcast on IG @psych.talk.podcastFollow me on TikTok @jessicaleighphdFollow me on Youtube Follow me on Threads @jessicaleighphdWelcome to Group Therapy PodcastJoin my Facebook community: Grow Through What You Go ThroughWays to Work With Me:Mind Over MatterLGBTQ+ Affirming MasterclassBe a guest on my podcastResources:Anti-Racism ResourcesLGBTQ+ Affirming ResourcesThe Helping Professional's Guide to Boundary SettingIntro/Outro MusicLife of Riley by Kevin MacLeodMusic License
Our communities are under increased attack again. Please do the real world change work in anyway you can. Check out the resources from Immigrant Defense Project and donate if you can https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/for-communities/Additional State by state Resources here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sbsn9Z0do9RoEtTlMIBBZlHiAz1QwcyTaLWxg-PuZMA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.viado4is3of3Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the constant cycles of organizing, marching and fighting with little noticeable change. This is a talkback episode discussing through episode 20 so there will be spoilers if you have not listened to episodes 1 -20. Talkback Content Warnings: Please be aware that talkback episodes cover a wide range of topics which may be hard for some listeners. Topics include but are not limited to : Suicide, Death, Depression, Anti-Blackness, Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Police, State Sanctioned Murder, Complicated Relationships, Sex and Sexuality, Hopelessness, Financial Anxiety, and Strong language.CAST: Synxiec as Romero Marcus the Targeted https://bsky.app/profile/synxiec.bsky.socialEmrys as Genissa Wallace the Human Street Medic https://linktr.ee/dragonemrysBluu as Ruin the Social Media Vampire Demon https://kyngvee.carrd.co/https://beacons.ai/baddiebardsAnd Cassie as the Storytellerhttps://bio.link/mentalwokeEpisodes Edited by: Marissa Ewing-Moody of Hemlock Creek Productionshttps://www.hemlockcreekprod.com/NOTE: While some cast members are mental health professionals, nothing in this episode or series is medical advice. We speak to our lived experiences. If you have concerns please contact someone in your community of care and/or seek out an appropriate professional. No podcast can or should be used as a substitute for a relationship with a doctor, therapist or other trained professional.Background music and sound from Epidemic Sound : https://www.epidemicsound.com
In this episode of The Body GrieversⓇ Club, Bri interviews anti-diet, weight-inclusive personal stylist Dacy Gillespie about clothing grief, style, and size accessibility. Dacy shares how styling clients revealed the need to address body feelings and how "flattering" advice often aims to make bodies appear smaller, rooted in white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism, referencing work by Sabrina Strings and Sonya Renee Taylor. They discuss real scarcity in plus-size clothing, including brands dropping extended sizes, and the grief and privilege tied to beauty standards. Dacy shares some of her practical tips for rejuvenating your closet through size changes, while still taking care of your own emotional wellbeing. 01:50 How Mindful Closet Began 03:58 Size Access and Hidden Grief 07:42 Unpacking "Flattering" Culture 13:34 Scarcity Mindset vs Reality 25:52 Client Clothing Grief Questions 30:19 Move Clothes Aside 33:02 Budget Shopping Tips 37:04 Unlearning Body Shame 44:30 Dream Your Style EPISODE RESOURCES: "Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia" by Sabrina Strings "The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love" by Sonya Renee Taylor "Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness" by Da'Shaun L. Harrison Episode 67: Being SEEN: picture grief with Lindley Ashline Summer Support Anti-Diet Panel Study on Women's Clothing Size WANT MORE OF DACY GILLESPIE? Join Dacy's newsletter at https://dacygillespie.substack.com/ "Mindful Closet" styling services with Dacy https://www.mindfulcloset.com/ Watch for Dacy's upcoming book, "Unflattering: A Radical New Way to Get Dressed" WANT MORE OF BRI? *Instagram: @bodyimagewithbri *Website: https://bodyimagewithbri.com/ *Bri's Free Resource: 7-Step Guide to Shift Body Grief to Radical Body Acceptance https://www.bodyimagewithbri.com/seven-steps
Our communities are under increased attack again. Please do the real world change work in anyway you can. Check out the resources from Immigrant Defense Project and donate if you can https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/for-communities/Additional State by state Resources here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sbsn9Z0do9RoEtTlMIBBZlHiAz1QwcyTaLWxg-PuZMA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.viado4is3of3Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the constant cycles of organizing, marching and fighting with little noticeable change. Our crew arrives to Genissa's grandmother's house. (Apologies there is a wandering and bad accent) Content Warnings: Series wide content warnings include, Violence, Manipulation, State Surveillance, Police, Player Conflict, Gentrification, Racism, Unwanted Romantic Gestures, Anti-Blackness, Sexism, Tension, Body Paralysis, Trauma, Monstrous forms, Complicated Relationships, Sex, Toxic Work Environments, Death, Hopelessness, Blood, Eldrich Horror, Colonization, and Existential Crisis and Dread. This episode also has descriptions of open water during a storm. CAST:Synxiec as Romero Marcus the Targetedhttps://bsky.app/profile/synxiec.bsky.socialEmrys as Genissa Wallace the Human Street Medichttps://linktr.ee/dragonemrysBluu as Ruin the Social Media Vampire Demonhttps://kyngvee.carrd.co/https://beacons.ai/baddiebardsAndCassie as the Storytellerhttps://bio.link/mentalwokeEpisodes Edited by:Marissa Ewing-Moody of Hemlock Creek Productionshttps://www.hemlockcreekprod.com/NOTE: While some cast members are mental health professionals, nothing in this episode or series is medical advice. We speak to our lived experiences. If you have concerns please contact someone in your community of care and/or seek out an appropriate professional. No podcast can or should be used as a substitute for a relationship with a doctor, therapist or other trained professional.Background music and sound from Epidemic Sound : https://www.epidemicsound.com
In this episode of Stitch Please, host Lisa Wolfork tackles a critical conversation about anti-fascism, anti-racism, and anti-blackness within progressive craft communities. Prompted by her experience in an anti-fascist knitting subreddit, Lisa addresses the Norwegian Red Hat of Resistance (Melt the Ice pattern), the problematic response to a Black woman's critique, and why anti-fascism without anti-racism is like "a dog chasing its tail." This episode is essential listening for understanding why Black women's critique is not dismissal but observation based on extensive lived experience in predominantly white creative spaces, and why it is so important for us to have our own spaces.Hosted By: Dr. Lisa WoolforkSenior Producer: Krystal HillProducer: Mike Bryant========Dr. Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English specializing in African American literature and culture. Her teaching and research explore Black women writers, Black identity, trauma theory, and American slavery. She is the founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black lives matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast that centers on Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. In the summer of 2017, she actively resisted the white supremacist marches in her community, Charlottesville, Virginia. The city became a symbol of lethal resurging white supremacist violence. She remains active in a variety of university and community initiatives, including the Community Engaged Scholars program. She believes in the power of creative liberation.Instagram: Lisa WoolforkTwitter: Lisa Woolfork========Stay Connected:YouTube: Black Women StitchInstagram: Black Women StitchFacebook: Stitch Please Podcast--Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletterCheck out our merch hereLeave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode.Join the Black Women Stitch PatreonCheck out our Amazon Store
Our communities are under increased attack again. Please do the real world change work in anyway you can. Check out the resources from Immigrant Defense Project and donate if you can https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/for-communities/Additional State by state Resources here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sbsn9Z0do9RoEtTlMIBBZlHiAz1QwcyTaLWxg-PuZMA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.viado4is3of3Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the constant cycles of organizing, marching and fighting with little noticeable change. Our crew takes a visit to Genissa's grandmother. (Apologies there is a wandering accent) Content Warnings: Series wide content warnings include, Violence, Manipulation, State Surveillance, Police, Player Conflict, Gentrification, Racism, Unwanted Romantic Gestures, Anti-Blackness, Sexism, Tension, Body Paralysis, Trauma, Monstrous forms, Complicated Relationships, Sex, Toxic Work Environments, Death, Hopelessness, Blood, Eldrich Horror, Colonization, and Existential Crisis and Dread.CAST:Synxiec as Romero Marcus the Targetedhttps://bsky.app/profile/synxiec.bsky.socialEmrys as Genissa Wallace the Human Street Medichttps://linktr.ee/dragonemrysBluu as Ruin the Social Media Vampire Demonhttps://kyngvee.carrd.co/https://beacons.ai/baddiebardsAndCassie as the Storytellerhttps://bio.link/mentalwokeEpisodes Edited by:Marissa Ewing-Moody of Hemlock Creek Productionshttps://www.hemlockcreekprod.com/NOTE: While some cast members are mental health professionals, nothing in this episode or series is medical advice. We speak to our lived experiences. If you have concerns please contact someone in your community of care and/or seek out an appropriate professional. No podcast can or should be used as a substitute for a relationship with a doctor, therapist or other trained professional.Background music and sound from Epidemic Sound : https://www.epidemicsound.com
This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing!In Part 1 we started discussing the “Million Pound Challenge” created by Toby Cosgrove and Dr. Michael Roizen in which they are “challenging” an unknown number of people to collectively lose one million pounds. In part 2 we'll discuss the program itself. (If you haven't read part 1, I recommend it to fully understand part 2.) As always I'll indent the quotes from the website so that you can avoid harmful weight stigma if you choose. They explain the program as a 3-step process:Step 1: Enroll Your OrgRegister your health system. Get access to a variety of resources in the Million Pound Challenge Tool Kit for your entire team.Step 2: Your Staff, Your WayEmployees can use the tools provided, join their own programs, work with providers—whatever works. Your organization decides how to structure participation.Step 3: Track ProgressThe only requirement? Track results with a monthly check with your Challenge coordinator. Watch as individual effort becomes collective momentum toward one million pounds.This is where they make things incredibly clear - literally the only requirement is to track weight loss. This isn't about health metrics, there is no way to make this program weight neutral or to focus on health - weight loss is the only metric and tracking it is the only thing the program requires.And when they blithely say “whatever works” let's be clear that a century of research finds that, unless their goal is to create weight cycling, nothing does. So there is no common intervention and all they are tracking is weight loss. Right. And how is weight loss tracked? Per the FAQs (emphasis mine)“Your Challenge ambassador must log your team's results monthly with your assigned Challenge Coordinator—this is the only requirement. Individual weights remain completely private. Only aggregate organizational totals are posted on the community leaderboard so you can see how your organization compares nationally.”Um, they aren't private if you have to share them with your company's challenge ambassador (and I have serious concerns that someone who would sign up for that job may be the last person that a coworker would want to tell their weight.) Workplace programs (or any programs) that include a weight loss component have significant risks to physical and mental health, including through eating disorders. But programs that compel people to compete solely on the basis of weight loss, as this one does, can actually encourage participation in dangerous behaviors in order to create weight loss.Measure your organization's progress, celebrate your success stories, and recognize your top-performing teams. Join leaders at quarterly events, Chamber Summit, Aspen Ideas Festival, and HLTH to keep momentum strong.Do. Not. Do. This. Another huge issue with this, and all workplace/organization weight-loss challenges, besides the issues with disordered eating and eating disorders and weight cycling, is that it can single out people who aren't participating or “achieving” in ways that create a hostile work environment for them. It can mean that those who have chosen an evidence-based weight-neutral path (either due to a history of eating disorders or other reasons) have to choose between their physical and mental health and being seen as “not a team player.” It can lead to organizations under valuing employees who, due to many reasons including disability, chronic illness, and more, cannot participate in the initiative at all (or in ways that make them “top-performing”) which can lead them to being seen by subordinates, peers, and bosses as a “drag” on the team or having less value to the organization. This is not surprising from someone like program co-founder Toby Cosgrove who once gleefully told the New York Times magazine that he didn't want to hire higher-weight people (as the CEO of the Cleveland Clinic,) but let's not follow in those bigoted footsteps.After 12 months, we'll have collectively proven what we've known all along—that sustainable health outcomes are achievable. Winners celebrated at HLTH 2026. Every organization recognized for leading the revolution.There is so much wrong with this that I scarcely know where to begin. As I said in part 1, “prove” is a very strong word so I expect robust research and lots of it (spoiler alert - I'm going to be disappointed again, but in no way surprised, again.) These two doctors should know better than to suggest that anything about “sustainable health outcomes” can be “proven” by a random “challenge” that only lasts a year has no common intervention, and only measures weight loss. This does not have the ring of sound science. The truth is, we can't even be sure how many of the participants would get thin enough that program co-founder Toby Cosgrove would think they deserved to be employed.I don't want to spend too much time analyzing the deck chairs on this titanic of a “challenge” but I do want to look at one of the “resources” they offer, called ‘Why Healthy Employees Don't Need Your Wellness Challenge.” First of all remember that this is NOT a wellness challenge (which would measure, you know, wellness) this is a weight loss challenge that only measures body size manipulation. Even if we ignore that, this “resource” is particularly horrifying, promoting the “Lifestyle 180” program. The program is based on the assumption that higher-weight people and those with chronic conditions are not already participating in health-supporting behaviors and should be “targeted”, by their employers (not their actual healthcare providers,) with “intensive, medically-integrated interventions.”Here again, this program teaches organizational leadership to see higher-weight people and those with chronic conditions as a liability to be solved and not as skilled and valuable employees, with the unspoken (except by Toby to the NYT magazine) takeaway to avoid hiring these people in the first place. This is likely to disproportionally impact higher-weight people, People of Color, and especially higher-weight People of Color. (Note that this is all wrapped up in the massive issues with U.S. employers providing healthcare which is, to use a technical term, a hot garbage mess that is beyond the scope of this post, but the idea that employers should have access to employee health information is obviously seriously problematic on its face.) The “resource” continuously suggests that employers focus on “the 20% of [ employees] driving 80% of the costs” ending with “that's where you win.”My main takeaway from this resource was that if an employer sent me an email that said “Your recent health screening showed some concerning trends We have a program specifically designed for you. Can we talk?” I should say, emphatically, no. Which would also be my immediate answer if asked to participate in this “challenge.”In Part 3 we'll talk about what you can do if your organization tries to push this kind of “challenge” on you.This month's online workshop is Weight-Neutral Joint Pain Management with sports medicine physicians Dr. Julia Bruene and Dr. Jeremy Alland. There is a pay-what-you-can-afford option and a video will be sent to all registrants.Details and registration here!If you appreciate the content here, you can subscribe for free to get future posts delivered direct to your inbox, or choose a paid subscription to support the newsletter (and the work that goes into it!) and get special benefits! Click the Subscribe button below for details:Liked the piece? 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“It is the heartbeat, the drumbeat. It's the heart line, it's the pipeline, it's just so many wonderful things that Black educators do.”Dr. Mazella Fullerhttps://antiracismandequity.com/antiracism-book-promo/“Black history is American history, and equity is not optional—it's essential.” Dr. Mazella Fuller shares her journey from K–12 classrooms to higher education, clinical social work, and national anti-racism leadership. She reflects on the power of Black educators to provide representation, cultural understanding, and pathways to student success—especially in spaces where Black voices are often marginalized.“We have to move from optics to outcomes.” Dr. Fuller is a licensed clinical social worker and educator who's spent nearly three decades transforming student support and developing outreach programs at Duke University's Counseling and Psychological Services. She co-authored the recently released "Antiblackness and the Stories of Authentic Allies: Lived Experiences in the Fight Against Institutionalized Racism" and also co-edited "Treating Black Women with Eating Disorders: A Clinician's Guide." Her advocacy centers on real allyship, mentorship as reparations, and integrating mental health with culturally responsive education.
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251226.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). AAPF (10/25) This week on CounterSpin: After every police killing of a Black person, every announced policy singling out Black immigrants as the cause of crime and disorder, every declaration, like that from Arlington National Cemetery, that as of now materials on Black and female service people will be scrubbed from the website—we hear from corporate media about how, boy, this country is for sure “reckoning” with “racism.” But then: If we reckoned with racism every time elite media claimed this country was “reckoning” with racism, seems like we ought to be fully “reckoned” by now. US corporate media have a white supremacy problem (and you see how that term lands differently than “racism”): They decide who they think, and hence you should think, is worth talking to, based on an accepted conflation of power with worthiness. They decide whose ideas are taken for granted and whose deemed marginal, and they tell us how to define progress: Is it moving toward actual equity, or just things quietening down? Who needs to be reassured, and whose lives is it OK to disrupt, whose basic humanity is it OK to question, day after day after day? A new report titled Anti-Blackness Is the Point, from the African American Policy Forum, engages this age-old if ever-morphing narrative. Kimberle Crenshaw is a leading legal scholar and justice advocate, the force behind the transformative ideas of intersectionality and critical race theory. She's co-founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum, as well as a professor of law at both Columbia and UCLA. We talk with Kimberle Crenshaw this week on CounterSpin. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251226Crenshaw.mp3 Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at nonprofits and diversity, equity and inclusion. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251226Banter.mp3
The 2025-26 College Football Playoff (CFP) begins this week, on Friday, December 19, 2025. In this new episode, Miguel is joined by our friends from The End of Sport Podcast, Derek Silva and Nathan Kalman-Lamb, and we discuss their award-winning book, The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game. In their book, they "explore how football is both predicated on a foundation of coercion and suffused with racialized harm and exploitation (UNC Press)." Using 25 in-depth interviews with college football athletic workers from college football's Power 5 (now 4) programs, Derek and Nathan outline the plantation dynamics and racial capitalism built into college football. Miguel, Derek, and Nathan also discuss how college and high school football coaches replicate the overseer role in the Plantation dynamics of college and high school football, the impact of COVID, and more! Nathan Kalman-Lamb is assistant professor of sociology at the University of New Brunswick and author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport. Derek Silva is associate professor of sociology at the University of King's College and coauthor of Power Played: A Critical Criminology of Sport.Links:Listen to The End of Sport Podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Abolish College Football by Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva/The NationFired Penn State football doctor back in court accusing ‘fraud' in coverup of his James Franklin complaints by John Luciew/Penn LiveWhy Did the US Block a Canadian Professor From His Own Book Event? By Dave Zirin/The NationMost athletes have chosen to ‘shut up and dribble' over Gaza by Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva/The GuardianEx-NFL CB Shareece Wright alleges sexual assault by trainer, John Barr/ESPNMiguel Garcia produced this episode. The Sports As A Weapon Podcast is part of the @Anticonquista Media Collective. Subscribe to the ANTICONQUISTA Patreon and follow ANTICONQUISTA on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and Tik Tok!Also, listen/subscribe to the Sports As A Weapon Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Deezer, or wherever you get your podcasts.Follow us on:Twitter/X: @sportsasaweaponFacebook: fb.com/sportsasaweaponpodcastInstagram: @sportsasaweaponpodcastTikTok: @SportsAsAWeaponYouTube: @SportsAsAWeaponBlueSky: @sportsasaweapon.bsky.socialPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/sportsasaweaponpodcast (If you want)Visit our website: www.sportsasaweapon....
The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly Compensatory Call-In 09/20/25. We encourage non-white listeners to dial in with their codified concepts, new terms, observations, research findings, workplace problems or triumphs, and/or suggestions on how best to Replace White Supremacy With Justice ASAP. This weekly broadcast examines current events from across the globe to learn what's happening in all areas of people activity. We cultivate Counter-Racist Media Literacy by scrutinizing journalists' word choices and using logic to deconstruct what is reported as "news." We'll use these sessions to hone our use of terms as tools to reveal truth, neutralize Racists/White people. #ANTIBLACKNESS 21-year-old Demartravion "Trey" Reed was found hanging from a tree this week at Delta State University in Mississippi. While the investigation continues, initial autopsy reports and enforcement officers have told us that this is a suicide. Reed's family and Delta State students continue seeking truthful answers. Before he hopped the pond to chinwag with Suspected Racists in the United Kingdom, Pres. Donald J. Trump last week rattled off a lengthy list of White killers who shot up public venues and killed people. This week in Pennsylvania, a White man killed his ex-girlfriend's canine and then three White enforcement officers. Since this cop killer was a White dude and not "LeRoy," this didn't become a point of national outcry. #EndStageWhiteSupremacy #INVEST in The COWS - http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: http://cash.app/$TheCOWS Call: 720.716.7300 Code: 564943#
The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly summit on Neutralizing Workplace Racism 07/24/25 One week after Gus T. Renegade declared that the sickness of antiblackness is the reason 39-year-old Jennifer Harris was stabbed to death by her black co-worker in Michigan, the same disgraceful episode was repeated just down the road in Illinois. 44-year-old Kathy Bledsoe was criminally charged with shooting her co-worker's mother in retaliation to assault. Bledsoe asked her teen employee to empty the rubbish bins. The worker refused, and Bledsoe asked her to clock out for the day. The employee contacted her mother, Tynika McKinzie, who traveled to the Illinois McDonald's with another minor to confront Bledsoe. Once at the burger joint, McKinzie is accused of assaulting Bledsoe, striking her in the head and opening a gash that required 4 stitches. Bledsoe allegedly pulled a firearm and shot McKinzie in the leg. Both females are classified as black and facing criminal charges. Additionally, we discuss one of the most lethal forces in the known universe... the Weeping White Woman. On the verge of being outed as a shiftless, incompetent who probably should not have been hired, the White Woman drew her last and most vile weapon. White tears. That a heap of blame-the-angry-niggra. #SoberWouldBeBest #ChilldRape #NoPoliticsOnTheJob INVEST in The COWS - http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: http://cash.app/$TheCOWS
Episode 144 pops up for Men's Mental Health Month spotlighting Anti-Violence Ventures, a non-profit dedicated to helping young Black men stop the cycle of violence. Special guests Ajamn Johnson and George Granberry, III break down the group's work with Black teenagers dealing with violence in their homes, communities, and the world. Other topics discussed include the nationwide protests against ICE raids, No Kings Day, Anti-Blackness in the Latino community, and the Diddy trial. Follow Real Black News on Instagram @realblacknews #RealBlackNews #AntiViolenceVentures #CaliforniaBlackWomensHealthProject #ICERaids #DiddyTrial #NoKingsDay #MensMentalHealthMonth #Juneteenth #Juneteenth2025
University of Georgia professor, Rafiki Jenkins, joins Doc and Mike to discuss the origins of human monstrosity (can a human be monstrous?) and how horror fictions presents and complicates history and American culture. We hope you have a fortunate Friday the 13th! Jerry Rafiki Jenkins is Assistant Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia. Rafiki holds a doctorate in Literature from the University of California, San Diego, and his research focuses on Black speculative fiction and film, with an emphasis on horror, and future human studies. Rafiki is the author of Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction (Ohio State UP, 2024) and The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction (Ohio State UP, 2019), and he co-edited, with Martin Japtok, Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Authentic Blackness/Real Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture (Peter Lang, 2011). Rafiki has also authored several book chapters, and his peer-reviewed articles appear in Pacific Coast Philology, Screening Noir, African American Review, Journal of Children's Literature, and Science Fiction Studies. About this podcast: MONSTERS! They haunt our days and chill our dreaming nights, to paraphrase Emily Dickinson. There's not a population on earth that does not have its own unique monster stories to tell to frighten, but also to instruct on the nature of good and evil, right and wrong. But what happens when monsters get out of control, when the monstrous imagination starts to bleed over into the real world? What are the effects of monsters on real people's real lives? This podcast examines the histories and mysteries of some of our favorite monsters to unlock their secrets and expose their influence on our lives. About the hosts: Michael Chemers (MFA, PhD) is a Professor of Dramatic Literature in the Department of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz. His work on monsters includes The Monster in Theatre History: This Thing of Darkness (London, UK: Routledge 2018). Dr. Chemers is the Founding Director of The Center for Monster Studies. Formerly the Founding Director of the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dramaturgy Program at Carnegie Mellon University, he joined the faculty of UCSC in 2012. He is also the author of Ghost Light: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010) and Staging Stigma: A Critical Examination of the American Freak Show (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007). Dr. Chemers is also an actor, a juggler, and a writer of drama. Mike Halekakis is an entrepreneur, business owner, internet marketer, software engineer, writer, musician, podcaster, and hardcore situational enthusiast. He is the co-founder of What We Learned, a company that specializes in compassionate training courses on complex adult subjects such as caregiving for people who are sick, planning for death, and administering after the loss of a loved one. He is also the CEO of Moneyfingers Inc., a company that trains people on how to successfully create, market, and sell products on the internet. When not burning the candle at both ends with a blowtorch, Mike loves video games, outdoor festivals, reading comics and novels, role-playing, writing and playing music, hanging out with the world's best cats, and spending time with his amazing wife and their collective worldwide friend-group.
Anti-Blackness wants us to think time travel is impossible. But is it? What if there WAS a way to go back? Anti-Blackness tried erasing us. What if we were able to find a way to erase it? _____________ 2-Minute Black History is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company. PushBlack exists to amplify the stories of Black history you didn't learn in school. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at BlackHistoryYear.com — most people donate $10 a month, but every dollar makes a difference. If this episode moved you, share it with your people! Thanks for supporting the work. The production team for this podcast includes Cydney Smith, Len Webb, and Lilly Workneh. Our editors are Lance John and Avery Phillips from Gifted Sounds Network. Julian Walker serves as executive producer. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Before my solo Sinners review, I sat with actor/comedian Chris Lamberth on The Mundane Festival podcast for a fresh-out-the-theater spoiler filled review, and got to cover a few additional themes that were on my mind. We get into the Black British actor debate, church-y-ness and a fear of spirit (we're seeing a lot of that fear in some Christian's negative reactions to the film), Mary's 'whiteness' and more. (Note: The film had just come out at the time of this recording, so I confuse Mary and Annie's name a few times) 6:05 Michael B. Jordan THE ACTOR 10:13 The Black British actor debate 24:09 The world building of 1932 Mississippi 25:02 Lie-max vs IMAX 28:11 Family, Community & Connection 31:44 The importance of movie theaters 34:26 Hoodoo, Anti-Blackness & the Church 38:21 white Mary 44:01 "Revenge" and "life" vs. "death" 53:57 Brotherhood beyond death 57:42 Ranking Ryan Coogler films 1:00:58 Ryan Coogler's unique press run 1:07:09 Why some Christians are afraid of Sinners and Beyoncé Watch the full video version of this episode on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/another-sinners-127862233?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Email me teawithqueenandj@gmail.com Support Paypal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/teawithqj Patreon: www.patreon.com/teawithqj
We're going to talk about food and nutrition next week. But first, we need to talk about beauty.Spoiler warning: You're beautiful.Links: Amelia is doing Youtube Lives again starting this Friday @4pm eastern!(From now until the end of Murderbot.)Bob the Drag Queen⭐️ Drink Water and Mind Your Business by Dr. Donna Oriowo ⭐️(Emily loves this book and blurbed it!)Get it from:SourcebooksAmazonBook Moon BooksDr. Yaba BlayThe Whites of Our Eyes is a short documentary film that follows Dr. Yaba Blay as she returns to her familial homeland of Ghana to explore the relationships between beauty, bodies, and b/BlacknessRad Bod or Dad Bod (Youtube)The NorthmanLindsay Ellis explains The Little Mermaid (Youtube)FD Signifier explains edgelords (Youtube)Jessica Kellgren-Fozard explains ugly laws (Youtube)Wreck-it Ralph villain support group (Youtube)Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun HarrisonHealth at Every SizeGood Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and HealthWhy Diets Make Us Fat by Sandra AamodtFSP 2020 Episode 18: The New HotnessThe Body Project Turia Pitt(it looks like Amelia's episode with Turia isn't up yet.)Ubuntu Reclaiming Ugly by Vanessa Rochelle Lewis
Last Sunday, Fundamentalist Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell (PAM) told Black people they need to stop blaming White cops for the killing of Black kids. He used Romans 13 in the Bible as the justification for his stance in the midst of a Christian Nationalist Regime that is abducting people off the street, erasing Black history, destabilizing the economy, etc... In this special edition of Holy Smokes: Cigars and Spirituality, Kristian does a solo episode to unpack the context of Romans 13. He provides another perspective on Romans 13 that is almost always overlooked in fundamentalist Christian spaces. This episode was recorded live for our free and paid tiers in Patreon. You can watch the full length episode by subscribing today! Subscribe to Patreon Here: / tfcvirtual Purchase full-length, uncensored episodes of the podcast here: / tfcvirtual Join the Wait List for Kristian's upcoming e-book, "How to Deconstruct," here: https://mailchi.mp/thefaithcommunity/... Register for DAI Fest in Atlanta Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dai-fest... Get Merch here: https://thefaithcommunity.org/merch-s... Order Breaking All The Rules here: https://www.kristianasmith.com/breaki... Video Chapters 00:00 - Intro and Highlights 02:59 - Origin Story for this video 07:36 - Kristian's disdain for PAM's theology 10:53 - How to spot Anti-Blackness in the Black community 12:44 - Who taught theology to Christian Influencers? 17:07 - Kristian agrees with PAM 17:53 - Recap of PAM's story about police brutality 21:53 - Romans 13 breakdown 22:54 - Cultural context of Romans 13 - Emperor Nero 25:10 - The Apostle Paul did not write scripture 27:00 - West Africans were uninvolved in Roman Christianity 35:10 - Romans 13:1-7 doesn't belong there? 38:06 - The Greatest Commandment takes priority 39:22 - Kristian's encounter with the Gen Z Christian Girlies 43:05 - Rebranding Condemnation as Conviction 48:33 - Issa Party!
Author/Academic/Activist Bianca Mabute-Louie joins to discuss her new book, Unassimilable: An Asian American Diasporic Manifesto for the 20th Century. Watch “Views from AmandaLand” Mon-Wed 10a EST at Youtube.com/AmandaSealesTV! Listen to the podcast streaming on all podcast platforms. Listen AD FREE! Subscribe to Patreon.com/AmandaSeales! Advertise on the show! Go to https://www.amandaseales.com/book-me This is a Smart Funny & Black Production
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Historian Jefferson Cowie offers a history White backlash to federal authority (First) | Filmmakers Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie discuss their Oscar-nominated documentary "Sugarcane" and the long history of abuse at residential schools in Canada (Starts at 22:20) | Shiori Itō, director of "Black Box Diaries," talks about her Oscar-nominated documentary about her investigation of her own sexual assault case (Starts at 39:35)If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.
In this episode of the Grad School Femtoring Podcast, we address the topic of being an anti-ableist advocate in higher education with our guest Janelle Johnson, a licensed marriage and family therapist, doctoral candidate, neurodiversity researcher, and DEIA consultant. Janelle shares her personal journey navigating higher education as a multiply neurodivergent, disabled, Black woman, and explains the frameworks and strategies she uses to support disabled and neurodivergent BIPOC students. We discuss common barriers these students face, practical strategies to foster anti-ableism, and how to maintain personal well-being, and build healthy relationships while advocating for equity. If you liked what you heard, check out episode 279 on queering and gripping academia, episode 189 on disability, education, and inclusion, and episode 187 on embracing neurodivergence. Get your free copy of my Grad School Femtoring Resource Kit here. Support our free resources with a one-time or monthly donation. To download episode transcripts and access more resources, go to my website: https://gradschoolfemtoring.com/podcast/ You can connect with Janelle at the following links: https://www.bridgesflc.com/consulting https://Linkedin.com/in/thefamilyfanatic https://instagram.com/thefamilyfanatic You can learn more from the following sources: Janelle's book chapter "How to Be an Anti-Ableist Clinician" in the book Anti-Blackness and the Stories of Authentic Allies. Dolmage, Jay T. Academic ableism: Disability and Higher Education. University of Michigan Press, 2017. This podcast is a proud member of the Atabey & Co. Network. *The Grad School Femtoring Podcast is for educational purposes only and not intended to be a substitute for therapy or other professional services.* Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Learning to teach math teachers better with Dr. Joi Spencer, Dean of the School of Education at the University of California, Riverside. as we discuss her experience and expertise as a math teacher educator, her long running STEAM Academy, and her book, Anti-Blackness at School: Creating Affirming Educational Spaces for African American Students. Links from the episode STEAM Academy (https://education.ucr.edu/steam-academy) Anti-Blackness at School: Creating Affirming Educational Spaces for African American Students by Joi Spencer and Kerri Ullucci (https://www.tcpress.com/anti-blackness-at-school-9780807767566) Math Ed Podcast Episode 1405: Megan Franke (https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mathed/episodes/2014-03-14T09_11_46-07_00) Special Guest: Joi Spencer.
In many ways, the health and wellness industry is killing Black people. For our audacity to exist with melanated skin, we've historically endured subjugation, political and economic disenfranchisement, and centuries-long death. And it hasn't stopped yet. In June 2023, Jay talked about it with Da'Shaun L. Harrison for season 7 of BHY. Da'Shaun is a self-described Black, fat, trans, disabled, queer abolitionist, community organizer, writer, and editor at Scalawag magazine. Their award-winning book, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, explores desirability politics, gender, policing, and the fallacies of healthiness. __________________________ Black History Year (BHY) is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company. PushBlack exists to amplify the stories of Black history you didn't learn in school and explore pathways to liberation with people leading the way. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at BlackHistoryYear.com — most people donate $10 a month, but every dollar makes a difference. If this episode moved you, share it with your people! Thanks for supporting the work. Hosting BHY is Jay (2020-2023) and Darren Wallace (2024). The BHY production team includes Jareyah Bradley and Brooke Brown. Our producers are Cydney Smith and Len Webb for PushBlack, and Lance John with Gifted Sounds edits and engineers the show. BHY's executive producers are Julian Walker and Lilly Workneh. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
For this week's episode, Shanti returns from her trip to Mexico City, highlighting the vibrant culture and her desire to learn Spanish, while Antoinette opens up about her continued struggles with job searching and burnout. For pop culture, Antoinette feels frustrated by the imbalanced expectations of Kamala Harris versus Donald Trump and we are both delighted by the legal troubles of Rudy Giuliani. We dive into the harrowing case of Gisele Picole and how seemingly 'perfect' men can be involved in terrible acts. The discussion shifts to the digital age, addressing the roots of trolling and anti-blackness in online interactions. We react to Kendrick Lamar and SZA's recent interview, and share our excitement for Tyler, The Creator's innovative approach to music, emphasizing the need for deeper engagement with art.Join us.Contact Us:Hotline: (215) 948-2780Email: aroundthewaycurls@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/aroundthewaycurls for exclusive videos & bonus episodes00:00 Cultural Connections: Shanti's Trip09:31 Ant Navigates Work Stress and Personal Challenges28:51Exploring Vulnerability in Documentaries32:44 The Apprentice: A Deep Dive into Trump's Origin36:23 Political Discourse and Media Representation42:43 Legal Consequences for Rudy Giuliani44:43 Elon Musk's Political Maneuvering56:10 The Giselle Picole Case: A Disturbing Reality01:02:01 The Impact of Trauma and Societal Perceptions01:06:43 Anti-Blackness and Trolling in the Digital Age01:12:16 Kendrick Lamar and SZA: Exploring Vulnerability and Identity01:19:30 Tyler, The Creator's Insight on Music Release StrategiesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
In episode 209, Dan and Michael chat with Asif Wilson and Rachel McMillian about their article published in Theory & Research in Social Education, “Black teachers in white spaces: Rupturing reproductions of Anti-Blackness in preservice social studies education.”
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