Podcast appearances and mentions of Sarai Walker

Lumières tamisées, pumpkin spice latte, et une ambiance résolument gothique… vous y êtes ? Bienvenu.e.s dans notre épisode de novembre spécial Halloween ! Ce mois-ci on vous promet des frissons et de l'horreur

In honor of back-to-school days, Laurie Dreyer, branch manager of Troy Public Library's Lansingburgh branch, selected four non-fiction books and two novels for adult learners to explore different aspects of life. "The Library Book" (Susan Orlean, 2018) covers the 1986 fire that completely destroyed the Los Angeles library as well as the history of libraries. "The Great Money Reset: Change Your Work, Change Your Wealth, Change Your Life" (Jill Schlesinger, 2023) provides financial advice aimed at the post-pandemic shift in many people's priorities. "Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale" (Adam Minter, 2019) looks at the global market for used objects and our tendency to "bond" with inanimate objects. "Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019" (Ibrim X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain, eds., 2021) gathers essays, poetry, and more from 90 African-American writers. Two novels explore women in 19th century America: "The Cherry Robbers" (Sarai Walker, 2022) and "Once and Future Witches" (Ailx E. Harrow, 2020). For details on these and other books, visit www.thetroylibrary.org. To find other libraries in New York State, see https://www.nysl.nysed.gov/libdev/libs/#Find. Produced by Brea Barthel for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

This week Samantha Nickerson returns to guest-hosting duties with a fabulous conversation with novelist writer Sarai Walker.

This week Harmony speaks with Jacinda Townsend, author of Mother Country, as part of Miami Book Fair 2022. We talk about motherhood, slavery, privilege, and so much more Jacinda Townsend, Sarai Walker, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, and Thrity Umrigar are just a few of the hundreds of authors from around the world gathering together in downtown Miami for Miami Book Fair 2022, the nation's largest gathering of writers and readers of all ages. They, along with Patti Smith, Lisa Genova, Rabia Chaudry, Sy Montgomery, and Sandra Cisneros are so looking forward to sharing their work, thoughts, and new ideas with everyone in person, and streamed Live From the Fair, from Sunday, November 13 through Sunday, Nov. 20. Please visit miamibookfair.com for more information, or follow MBF at @miamibookfair #miamibookfair2022. In this Episode: Mother Country by Jacinda Townsend To follow our episode schedule, go here: https://rebelgirlsbook.club/the-syllabus. Follow our social media pages on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-reb… and Twitter https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBook1 , Or you can email us at RebelGirlsBookClub@gmail.com. Our theme song is by The Gays, and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rgbc/message

This week Maggie speaks with Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir, as part of Miami Book Fair 2022. We talk about the personal impacts of colonialism, sharing family secrets, memory loss, and so much more. Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Sarai Walker, Jacinda Townsend, and Thrity Umrigar are just a few of the hundreds of authors from around the world gathering together in downtown Miami for Miami Book Fair 2022, the nation's largest gathering of writers and readers of all ages. They, along with Patti Smith, Lisa Genova, Rabia Chaudry, Sy Montgomery, and Sandra Cisneros are so looking forward to sharing their work, thoughts, and new ideas with everyone in person, and streamed Live From the Fair, from Sunday, November 13 through Sunday, Nov. 20. Please visit miamibookfair.com for more information, or follow MBF at @miamibookfair #miamibookfair2022. In this Episode: The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras To follow our episode schedule, go here: https://rebelgirlsbook.club/the-syllabus. Follow our social media pages on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-reb… and Twitter https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBook1 , Or you can email us at RebelGirlsBookClub@gmail.com. Our theme song is by The Gays, and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rgbc/message

This week Maggie speaks with Sarai Walker, author of The Cherry Robbers, as part of Miami Book Fair 2022. We talk about exploring feminism in historical fiction, the power of the gothic to tell a feminist story, and so much more! Sarai Walker, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Jacinda Townsend, and Thrity Umrigar are just a few of the hundreds of authors from around the world gathering together in downtown Miami for Miami Book Fair 2022, the nation's largest gathering of writers and readers of all ages. They, along with Patti Smith, Lisa Genova, Rabia Chaudry, Sy Montgomery, and Sandra Cisneros are so looking forward to sharing their work, thoughts, and new ideas with everyone in person, and streamed Live From the Fair, from Sunday, November 13 through Sunday, Nov. 20. Please visit miamibookfair.com for more information, or follow MBF at @miamibookfair #miamibookfair2022. In this Episode: The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker To follow our episode schedule, go here: https://rebelgirlsbook.club/the-syllabus. Follow our social media pages on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-reb… and Twitter https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBook1 , Or you can email us at RebelGirlsBookClub@gmail.com. Our theme song is by The Gays, and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rgbc/message

This week Maggie talks with author Thrity Umrigar about her latest book Honor as part of the Miami Book Fair 2022. We talk about loneliness and isolation, advocacy journalism, reaching across cultural divides, and so much more! Thirty Umrigar, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Jacinda Townsend, and Sarai Walker are just a few of the hundreds of authors from around the world gathering together in downtown Miami for Miami Book Fair 2022, the nation's largest gathering of writers and readers of all ages. They, along with Patti Smith, Lisa Genova, Rabia Chaudry, Sy Montgomery, and Sandra Cisneros are so looking forward to sharing their work, thoughts, and new ideas with everyone in person, and streamed Live From the Fair, from Sunday, November 13 through Sunday, Nov. 20. Please visit miamibookfair.com for more information, or follow MBF at @miamibookfair #miamibookfair2022. In this Episode: Honor by Thrity Umrigar To follow our episode schedule, go here: https://rebelgirlsbook.club/the-syllabus. Follow our social media pages on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-reb… and Twitter https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBook1 , Or you can email us at RebelGirlsBookClub@gmail.com. Our theme song is by The Gays, and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rgbc/message

Wasanga Mehana is joined by the Lifestyle Writer at The South African, Carmen Coetsee to review three books Finding Me by Viola Davis, The Murders at Fleat House by Lucinda Riley and The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sarai Walker's debut novel Dietland was smash hit and made into an AMC TV series, and now she returns with The Cherry Robbers, a twisted, dark gothic novel. Sarai tells us how the novel was inspired by real people and history and how she loves writing fiction that is subversive but “wrapped in a pretty package”. And the Two Marks discuss Mr Stay's book launch and his unboxing videos, and how to haggle the best deal from a publisher.   Please note: there's no video of the Two Marks on Youtube this week due to broadband issues, but there is video with Sarai's interview.

January LaVoy narrates Sarai Walker's chilling audiobook complete with ghosts, madness, and secrets. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile's Sandi Henschel discuss Golden Voice narrator LaVoy's skill at delivering fully developed characters and creating the perfect ambiance for this gothic novel. LaVoy channels Sylvia Wren, a world-famous, reclusive Arizona artist. Currently, she's being hounded by a journalist who's threatening to reveal her real identity: She is the heiress to the Chapel Firearms fortune, Iris Chapel. One-upping the reporter, Sylvia writes her own memoir, offering a disturbing look at her childhood. LaVoy navigates the backstory smoothly, becoming each of the six doomed sisters and their Cassandra-like mother. Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile's website. Published by Harper Audio. Find more audiobook recommendations at audiofilemagazine.com Support for AudioFile's Behind the Mic comes from PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE AUDIO, dedicated to producing top-quality fiction and nonfiction audiobooks written and read by the best in the business. Visit penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/audiofile now to start listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“I didn't want it to be just a very overwhelming dark book. I mean, it has so much tragedy that I had to balance that I wanted to make it part of, you know, light and airy and fun and frothy and feminine to contrast with what's going to happen. I think there's power in that contrast ... I felt like it can't all be this very goth all the time, this very gothic world, the kind of fog-on-the-Moors kind of thing…” We were utterly thrilled by Sarai Walker's debut novel, Dietland—inspired in part by beauty culture and in part by Fight Club (yep, that one)—and we're delighted by her newest, The Cherry Robbers. Sarai joins us on the show to talk about sisterhood, love, marriage, romance, feminism, her literary inspirations (including Emily Dickinson and Kate Atkinson's Life After Life), and much more with Poured Over's host, Miwa Messer. And we end the episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and his bookseller guest, Becky.   Featured Books: The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker Dietland by Sarai Walker Life After Life by Kate Atkinson   Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays).   A full transcript of this show is available here.

In this episode, we get excited about two new book releases: The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker and Book of Night by Holly Black. Then we are charmed by three short words: floating taco bar. BOOKS - The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker - https://bookshop.org/a/1240/9780358251873 - Book of Night by Holly Black - https://bookshop.org/a/1240/9781250812193 DISTRACTION OF THE WEEK Visit the website for Lime Out, the floating taco bar - https://www.limeoutvi.com Follow Lime Out on Instagram  - https://www.instagram.com/limeoutvi/ Read an article about it in 'Travel+Leisure' - https://www.travelandleisure.com/food-drink/floating-taco-bar-st-john-us-virgin-islands-caribbean Read an article about it in 'St. John Magazine' - https://stjohnmagazine.com/lime-out-vi-st-john-floating-bar This video will have you packing your bags and booking a flight before you can say, 'extra guac, please.' - https://youtu.be/RpEjOIuI69k The Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.com Do you enjoy our show? Want access to fun bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplace As always, you can follow us at: Our web site at Strong Sense of Place Patreon Twitter  Instagram Facebook YouTube  

Dark Side of the Library Podcast Episode #52: Dark Adult Fiction Books Coming Out May 2022 Part 1 Show Notes: (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you)   The Blacktongue Thief, by Christopher Buehlman  (Author) – May 10, 2022 https://amzn.to/3vhmW3y   Book of Night, by Holly Black  (Author) – May 3, 2022 https://amzn.to/3pQjaLo   The Change, by Kirsten Miller (May 3, 2022) https://amzn.to/37MvvKN   The Cherry Robbers, by Sarai Walker  (Author) – May 17, 2022 https://amzn.to/3trNb6C   Decimate, by Christopher Rice - Anne Rice's son - (May 10) https://amzn.to/3KqNIuB   Echoes of Grace, by Guadalupe Garcia McCall (May 22) https://amzn.to/3Kn2xyE   The Hacienda, by Isabel Cañas  (Author) – May 3, 2022 https://amzn.to/3IEbiEg   Here Goes Nothing, by Steve Toltz (May 3) https://amzn.to/3EOIsQy   The Ghosts of Rose Hill, by R.M. Romero (May 10) https://amzn.to/37GMvlL   Hide, by Kiersten White   – May 24, 2022 https://amzn.to/35BxdgK   Hidden Pictures: A Novel, by Jason Rekulak  (Author)  (May 10) https://amzn.to/343zTTU   Just Like Mother, by Anne Heltzel  (Author)  – May 17, 2022 https://amzn.to/3pJzbmv

Sarai Walker ("Dietland") joins us as our second-ever guest to talk about her upcoming release, "The Cherry Robbers," which comes out May 17, and plays on goth themes inspired by the story of Sarah Winchester and Emily Dickinson's creepy poems. Plus, hear thoughts about "The Unwritten Book," by Samantha Hunt, to be released in April, Dan Chaon's "Sleepwalk," which comes out in May, "Murder on Hollywood Beach," released later this month, and a bunch of stuff about the Maine Bookhouse, where Sam found a book from 1939 about Lucky Strike cigarettes, the Newburyport Literary Festival, and much more. Also, Sam accuses Sarai of having a southern accent, but she grew up in California and claims she doesn't have one. You be the judge.

En cette période estivale, où les vacances et plus particulièrement l'été n'est pas synonyme de bien-être pour tous.tes, Nouvelles Ecoutes vous propose de réécouter cet épisode important, et même nécessaire, qui aborde les nombreuses injonctions faites sur le corps des femmes. Depuis petites, les femmes sont inquiétées, contrôlées, jugées par rapport à leur poids. Régimes drastiques, régimes “miracles”, jeûne, anorexie, boulimie… Perdre du poids revient souvent à perdre sa santé physique et mentale pour convenir à des normes de beauté imposées par le patriarcat. À l'heure du mouvement body positive et de ses nouvelles injonctions et où la grossophobie commence enfin à faire partie du débat, Clémentine et Kiyémis reviennent aujourd'hui sur les liens entre féminisme et troubles alimentaires. Références entendues dans l'épisode :L'étude de la National Eating Disorder Association. Un reportage sur le mouvement IwasCorsica, BFM TV, 6 juillet 2020. Le terme “Vénus Callypige” désigne un type de statue représentant la déesse grecque de l'Amour, Vénus, contemplant son corps rond par dessus son épaule. Histoire du corps. Les mutations du regard. Le XXe siècle. ouvrage dirigé par Jean-Jacques Courtine, Seuil, 2015. L'hygiénisme est un courant architectural, médical et politique initié au début du XIXème siècle avec pour but la prévention de la santé publique et le respect de règles d'hygiènes, principalement dans les villes. Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia, Sabrina Springs, NYU Press, 2019. Sabrina Springs reçue dans l'épisode 119 du podcast Body Kindness, juin 2019. Saartjie Baartman, de son vrai nom Sawtche est une une femme koïsan née en Afrique du Sud, emmenée en Angleterre en 1810, réduite en esclavage et exhibée dans les cirques en Europe à cause de son postérieur. Elle sera surnommée la Venus Hottentote. Dictionnaire du corps, sous la direction de Michela Marzano, PUF, 2007. Guillaume le Conquérant, qui avait remplacé beaucoup de son alimentation par de l'alcool serait décédé des suites d'une chute de cheval lorsqu'il était ivre au XIème siècle. William Banting est un croque-mort anglais connu pour être le premier en 1863 à populariser un régime basé sur la limitation de l'apport en hydrates de carbone (low carb diet) Le régime Atkins est un régime “amaigrissant” inventé par le Docteur Robert Atkins et fonctionnant sur le principe du “low carb”. Le régime paléo (pour paléolithique) est un régime alimentaire basé sur le supposé mode de vie des hominidés du paléolithique. Le régime Dukan ou régime Protal est un régime mis au point par Pierre Dukan critiqué pour son “effet yoyo” sur le poids de ceux et celles qui l'ont adopté. “Mourir en beauté - le corset” de la chaîne Youtube Le Bizarreum, 28 août 2019. “Vogue DENYING Models with Eating Disorders—The New Six Point Pledge!”, de la chaîne Youtube Clevver Style, 3 mai 2012. La Metropolitan Life Insurance Company a produit dès 1959 des tableaux indiquant le “poids idéal” pour s'assurer une longévité plus importante. Reproduite en 1983, la campagne était basée sur la Build Study de 1979 mise en place par la Société des Actuaires. Un article sur le supposé régime miracle “cleanse” de Beyoncé et ses risques, USA Today, 14 décembre 2019.Une pub pour Weight Watchers, 1990. Jean Nidetch était la fondatrice de l'entreprise Weight Watchers. Le terme “Heroin Chic” désigne une mode apparue dans les années 1990 caractérisé par la peau pâle, les cernes et le look androgyne incarné par Kate Moss surnommée la brindille. Ce look s'opposait aux corps sportifs et sains apparents des Super Model comme Cindy Crawford ou Claudia Schiffer.Un article sur la phrase de Kate Moss sur la maigreur qu'elle dit aujourd'hui regretter, BBC, 14 septembre 2018. Un reportage sur la mode consistant à manger des boules de coton pour se sentir rassasié, Dayton 24/7 Now, 17 juin 2013.Traité sur l'embonpoint ou obésité, moyens de le prévenir et de le combattre, Léon de la Panousse, Dentu, 1837Richard Morton était un physicien et médecin anglais du XVIIème siècle, La consomption nerveuse en 1689 constitue la première description détaillée de l'anorexie mentale. Sigmund Freud relie nettement l'anorexie à l'hystérie tout en insistant sur son aspect dépressif et mélancolique dans une lettre intitulée “Manuscrit G - mélancolie” en 1895. Jacques Lacan évoque l'anorexie comme “un suicide non violent” et comme un besoin de “manger le rien” dans des cours donnés en 1935. « Normes alimentaires et minorisation « ethnique » », Journal des anthropologues, Chantal Crenn, 2006.“La Une de Elle sur les kilos et le confinement déclenche les critiques”, Huffington Post, 1er juin 2020. L'affaire du Mediator est une affaire sanitaire et judiciaire concernant les personnes s'estimant victimes de la prise de benfluorex, commercialisé sous le nom de Mediator par les laboratoires Servier.Jill Kortleve est une top model néerlandaise considérée comme “plus size”. La youtubeuse Justice Gallice à propos de la mode et des dangers du thigh gap. Le défilé de Victoria Secret en 2012. Le tumblr “Women laughing alone with salads”.“Fat Pride and Fat Acceptance”, reportage de la chaîne publique australienne The Feed SBS, 26 mai 2014. The Fat Underground est un groupe féministe créé en 1972 dans la lignée du mouvement américain Fat Acceptance. L'association Allegro Fortissimo est située à Paris au 22 Rue Deparcieux dans le 14ème arrondissement. Le G.R.O.S, pour Groupe de Réflexion sur l'Obésité et le Surpoids regroupe thérapeutes, médecins et diététicien.n.e.s à Paris.Gabi Fresh alias Gabi Gregg est une créatrice de mode américaine pour les femmes grosses. Tess Holliday est une écrivaine, blogueuse, maquilleuse et mannequin grande taille américaine. Stéphanie Zwicky, alias Big Beauty, est une blogueuse et chroniqueuse mode parisienne d'origine suisse. Gaëlle Prudencio est une blogueuse mode d'origine béninoise et juriste en droit social qui travaille sur la mode grande taille. On achève bien les gros, documentaire de Gabrielle Deydier, Arte, 2020. “My Eating Disorder Made Me Feel Like a Feminist Fraud”, Marie-Claire US, 28 novembre 2018. Unbearable Weight : Feminism, Western Culture and the Body, Susan Bordo, UC Press, 1993. Susie Orbach est une psychothérapeute et psychanalyste britannique, autrice de plusieurs ouvrages sur le surpoids.Jeannette Winterson est une autrice et romancière anglaise. Les Body studies ou Body Culture Studies comparent les descriptions et approches du corps dans la société à travers les sciences sociales. Fat is a feminist issue, Susie Obach, Arrow, 1978. Un entretien de l'autrice avec le Guardian, 2009. “Susie Orbach : Why fat is still a feminist issue ?”, The Independent, 10 janvier 2002. “The New Weight Watchers is about wellness”, The Washington Post, 2018. “Research Shows Intermittent Fasting Has Some Health Benefits — But Experts Say The Risks Aren't Worth It”, Bustle, 31 août 2019.Beauté fatale, les nouveaux visages d'une aliénation féminine, Mona Chollet, Éditions la Découverte, 2012. (In)visible, Sarai Walker, Gallimard, 2017. Hunger, Roxane Gay, éditions Points, 2020.On ne naît pas grosse, Gabrielle Deydier, éditions Goutte-d'Or, 2017. “Gros” n'est pas un gros mot. Chroniques d'une discrimination ordinaire, Eva Perez Bello et Daria Marx, Flammarion, 2018. You have the right to remain fat : a manifesto for the fat revolution, Virgie Tovar, Feminist Press, 2018. La dictature des régimes, attention !, Gérard Apfeldorfer et Jean-Philipe Zermati, éditions Odile Jacob, 2006. My skinny sister est un film réalisé par Sanna Lenken en 2015. “Are movies about eating disorders are fundamentally uncinematic ?”, Pacific Standard, 14 juillet 2017. To the bone est un film réalisé par Marti Noxon pour Netlfix en 2017. Les lois de l'attraction est un film réalisé par Roger Avary en 2003. Dietland est une série créée par Marti Noxon basée sur le roman de Sarai Walker du même nom. Un extrait du film Mean Girls où l'héroïne est à la table des filles populaires de son lycée. “The villainization of eating disorders in popular culture”, Women's Media Center, 3 août 2018. My mad fat diary (Journal d'une ado hors norme) est une série créée par Tom Bidwell en 2013. Cassie est un personnage de la série britannique Skins qui souffre d'anorexie mentale. Miranda est un personnage de la série américaine Sex in the City qui cherche à perdre du poids après sa grossesse et qui adore trop à son goût le chocolat. Daphné dans la version française de la série SKAM souffre d'anorexie mentale. Audrey Hepburn est une actrice américaine qui a souffert d'anorexie et de malnutrition après la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Andy Warhol est un artiste contemporain américain qui traitait de nourriture dans ses oeuvres et qui souffrait probablement de TCA. Elvis Presley est un chanteur américain qui aurait eu pour habitude de remplacer ses repas par du sommeil. Demi Lovato est une chanteuse américaine qui souffre de boulimie depuis son enfance. Lady Gaga est une chanteuse américaine qui a souffert d'anorexie mentale. Taylor Swift : Miss Americana est un documentaire Netflix réalisé en 2020 où la chanteuse évoque entre autres ses troubles alimentaires et son image. La chanteuse Beyoncé vomit dans le clip de Pretty Hurts qui parle des troubles alimentaires et des standards de beauté inatteignables imposés aux femmes. Adele est une chanteuse britannique critiquée à cause de son physique puis félicitée pour sa perte de poids spectaculaire. Jennifer Hudson est une chanteuse et actrice américaine scrutée après une perte de poids de plus de 35 kilos en 2010. Raven-Symoné est une actrice américaine critiquée pour son supposé poids trop élevé depuis son enfance. “Lizzo attaquée par une coach fitness grossophobe : les internautes réagissent”, Terrafemina, 10 janvier 2020. La réponse de la chanteuse Lizzo sur TikTok. All Along You Were Blooming : thoughts for boundless living, Morgan Harper Nicols, Zondervan, 2020. Peau d'homme, bande-dessinée de Hubert, dessinée par Zanzim, Glénat, 2020. Quoi de Meuf est une émission de Nouvelles Écoutes, cet épisode est conçu et présenté par Clémentine Gallot et Kiyémis, mixé par Laurie Galligani. Générique réalisé par Aurore Meyer Mahieu. 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Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest Caitlin Reilley Beck (she/he/they) to explore new and nerdy connections for Breadpocalypse, part of our Jesus Loafs You series. This includes the scripture for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost, also known as Lectionary 19 or Proper 14, which falls on August 8th this year, including our deep dive into eating disorders. The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here. We talked about the following books: Health at Every Size and Radical Belonging by Lindo Bacon, Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings, and Dietland by Sarai Walker. Caitlin mentioned Adventure Playgrounds. Go here for support, resources, and treatment options for eating disorders. CN: we talk about eating disorders when discussing the deep dive. Check us out on Facebook & Twitter at @NerdsAtChurch to connect! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nerdsatchurch/message

This week, we're recommending books to read in the AC for every summer occasion! Plus, we've got stories galore. Hear about Amy's ill-fated outdoor excursions, Erin's love of a particular news anchor, and more. Our recommendations this week all come from previous Broads and Books episodes. Find the books, and the original show links, below! _____Books recommended in this episode: We Went to the Woods, Caite Dolan-Leach, originally discussed in Episode 72 Burn the Place, Iliana Regan, Episode 52 Water, Jennifer Wilson, Episode 9 American Fire, Monica Hesse, Episode 42 Pew, Catherine Lacey, Episode 76  Severance, Ling Ma, Episode 10 Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Mona Awad, Episode 15 Dietland, Sarai Walker, Episode 15 When No One is Watching, Alyssa Cole, Episode 82 The Heavens, Sandra Newman, Episode 61 Unspeakable Acts, Sarah Weinman, Episode 79 Solutions and Other Problems, Allie Brosh, Episode 72 I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, Episode 2 A Certain Hunger, Chelsea G. Summers, Episode 89 Followers, Megan Angelo, Episode 91 Miracle Creek, Angie Kim, Episode 17 _____Broads and Books is a book podcast. A funny podcast. A feminist podcast. And one of the BEST podcasts. Each week Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste. Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, pitch amazing-slash-crackpot business ideas, implicate ourselves in future crimes, check in on our Podcats, and so much more.  Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week.Visit us at www.broadsandbooks.com, and talk to us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook! 

With guest Shira Lile from Hello Life! Where we talk about: Hello Life, a Cowlitz County organization that provides peer support to people who struggle with eating disorders or negative body image; Contact: hellolifeservices@yahoo.com, helloliferecovery.org, or text or call 971.770.0680 Love Your Body by Jessica Sanders; The Self-Love Revolution by Virgie Tovar; Body Respect by Lindo Bacon and Lucy Aphramor;   Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch; The Body is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor; Radical Belonging by Lindo Bacon; Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison; The F*ck It Diet by Caroline Dooner; Shrill by Lindy West; Dietland by Sarai Walker; Land Whale by Jes Baker; Embody by Connie Sobczak; Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings; What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon; Untamed by Glennon Doyle; Daring Greatly by Brené Brown; Behind the Before and After:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTY_hCTmI98 https://bookriot.com/best-body-positive-books/ and more!

One of the last bastions of acceptable discrimination is against fat people. Health arguments reinforce the social and cultural pressure to avoid fatness at all costs. But is it possible to imagine things differently and help women to escape from the complex web of body image, food and weight concerns?  Sarai Walker received her MFA in creative writing from Bennington College. As a magazine writer, her articles have appeared in Seventeen and Mademoiselle. She served as an editor and writer for Our Bodies, Ourselves, before moving to London and Paris to complete a PhD. Her first novel, Dietland, was published in 2015, and takes on the beauty industry, gender inequality and our weight loss obsession.

Depuis petites, les femmes sont inquiétées, contrôlées, jugées par rapport à leur poids. Régimes drastiques, régimes “miracles”, jeûne, anorexie, boulimie… Perdre du poids revient souvent à perdre sa santé physique et mentale pour convenir à des normes de beauté imposées par le patriarcat. À l’heure du mouvement body positive et de ses nouvelles injonctions et où la grossophobie commence enfin à faire partie du débat, Clémentine et Kiyémis reviennent aujourd’hui sur les liens entre féminisme et troubles alimentaires. Références entendues dans l’épisode : L’étude de la National Eating Disorder Association. Un reportage sur le mouvement IwasCorsica, BFM TV, 6 juillet 2020. Le terme “Vénus Callypige” désigne un type de statue représentant la déesse grecque de l’Amour, Vénus, contemplant son corps rond par dessus son épaule. Histoire du corps. Les mutations du regard. Le XXe siècle. ouvrage dirigé par Jean-Jacques Courtine, Seuil, 2015. L'hygiénisme est un courant architectural, médical et politique initié au début du XIXème siècle avec pour but la prévention de la santé publique et le respect de règles d’hygiènes, principalement dans les villes. Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia, Sabrina Springs, NYU Press, 2019. Sabrina Springs reçue dans l’épisode 119 du podcast Body Kindness, juin 2019. Saartjie Baartman, de son vrai nom Sawtche est une une femme koïsan née en Afrique du Sud, emmenée en Angleterre en 1810, réduite en esclavage et exhibée dans les cirques en Europe à cause de son postérieur. Elle sera surnommée la Venus Hottentote. Dictionnaire du corps, sous la direction de Michela Marzano, PUF, 2007. Guillaume le Conquérant, qui avait remplacé beaucoup de son alimentation par de l’alcool serait décédé des suites d’une chute de cheval lorsqu’il était ivre au XIème siècle. William Banting est un croque-mort anglais connu pour être le premier en 1863 à populariser un régime basé sur la limitation de l'apport en hydrates de carbone (low carb diet) Le régime Atkins est un régime “amaigrissant” inventé par le Docteur Robert Atkins et fonctionnant sur le principe du “low carb”. Le régime paléo (pour paléolithique) est un régime alimentaire basé sur le supposé mode de vie des hominidés du paléolithique. Le régime Dukan ou régime Protal est un régime mis au point par Pierre Dukan critiqué pour son “effet yoyo” sur le poids de ceux et celles qui l’ont adopté. “Mourir en beauté - le corset” de la chaîne Youtube Le Bizarreum, 28 août 2019. “Vogue DENYING Models with Eating Disorders—The New Six Point Pledge!”, de la chaîne Youtube Clevver Style, 3 mai 2012. La Metropolitan Life Insurance Company a produit dès 1959 des tableaux indiquant le “poids idéal” pour s'assurer une longévité plus importante. Reproduite en 1983, la campagne était basée sur la Build Study de 1979 mise en place par la Société des Actuaires. Un article sur le supposé régime miracle “cleanse” de Beyoncé et ses risques, USA Today, 14 décembre 2019.Une pub pour Weight Watchers, 1990. Jean Nidetch était la fondatrice de l’entreprise Weight Watchers. Le terme “Heroin Chic” désigne une mode apparue dans les années 1990 caractérisé par la peau pâle, les cernes et le look androgyne incarné par Kate Moss surnommée la brindille. Ce look s’opposait aux corps sportifs et sains apparents des Super Model comme Cindy Crawford ou Claudia Schiffer.Un article sur la phrase de Kate Moss sur la maigreur qu’elle dit aujourd’hui regretter, BBC, 14 septembre 2018. Un reportage sur la mode consistant à manger des boules de coton pour se sentir rassasié, Dayton 24/7 Now, 17 juin 2013.Traité sur l'embonpoint ou obésité, moyens de le prévenir et de le combattre, Léon de la Panousse, Dentu, 1837Richard Morton était un physicien et médecin anglais du XVIIème siècle, La consomption nerveuse en 1689 constitue la première description détaillée de l’anorexie mentale. Sigmund Freud relie nettement l'anorexie à l'hystérie tout en insistant sur son aspect dépressif et mélancolique dans une lettre intitulée “Manuscrit G - mélancolie” en 1895. Jacques Lacan évoque l’anorexie comme “un suicide non violent” et comme un besoin de “manger le rien” dans des cours donnés en 1935. « Normes alimentaires et minorisation « ethnique » », Journal des anthropologues, Chantal Crenn, 2006.“La Une de Elle sur les kilos et le confinement déclenche les critiques”, Huffington Post, 1er juin 2020. L'affaire du Mediator est une affaire sanitaire et judiciaire concernant les personnes s'estimant victimes de la prise de benfluorex, commercialisé sous le nom de Mediator par les laboratoires Servier.Jill Kortleve est une top model néerlandaise considérée comme “plus size”. La youtubeuse Justice Gallice à propos de la mode et des dangers du thigh gap. Le défilé de Victoria Secret en 2012. Le tumblr “Women laughing alone with salads”.“Fat Pride and Fat Acceptance”, reportage de la chaîne publique australienne The Feed SBS, 26 mai 2014. The Fat Underground est un groupe féministe créé en 1972 dans la lignée du mouvement américain Fat Acceptance. L’association Allegro Fortissimo est située à Paris au 22 Rue Deparcieux dans le 14ème arrondissement. Le G.R.O.S, pour Groupe de Réflexion sur l’Obésité et le Surpoids regroupe thérapeutes, médecins et diététicien.n.e.s à Paris.Gabi Fresh alias Gabi Gregg est une créatrice de mode américaine pour les femmes grosses. Tess Holliday est une écrivaine, blogueuse, maquilleuse et mannequin grande taille américaine. Stéphanie Zwicky, alias Big Beauty, est une blogueuse et chroniqueuse mode parisienne d'origine suisse. Gaëlle Prudencio est une blogueuse mode d’origine béninoise et juriste en droit social qui travaille sur la mode grande taille. On achève bien les gros, documentaire de Gabrielle Deydier, Arte, 2020. “My Eating Disorder Made Me Feel Like a Feminist Fraud”, Marie-Claire US, 28 novembre 2018. Unbearable Weight : Feminism, Western Culture and the Body, Susan Bordo, UC Press, 1993. Susie Orbach est une psychothérapeute et psychanalyste britannique, autrice de plusieurs ouvrages sur le surpoids.Jeannette Winterson est une autrice et romancière anglaise. Les Body studies ou Body Culture Studies comparent les descriptions et approches du corps dans la société à travers les sciences sociales. Fat is a feminist issue, Susie Obach, Arrow, 1978. Un entretien de l’autrice avec le Guardian, 2009. “Susie Orbach : Why fat is still a feminist issue ?”, The Independent, 10 janvier 2002. “The New Weight Watchers is about wellness”, The Washington Post, 2018. “Research Shows Intermittent Fasting Has Some Health Benefits — But Experts Say The Risks Aren’t Worth It”, Bustle, 31 août 2019.Beauté fatale, les nouveaux visages d’une aliénation féminine, Mona Chollet, Éditions la Découverte, 2012. (In)visible, Sarai Walker, Gallimard, 2017. Hunger, Roxane Gay, éditions Points, 2020.On ne naît pas grosse, Gabrielle Deydier, éditions Goutte-d'Or, 2017. “Gros” n’est pas un gros mot. Chroniques d’une discrimination ordinaire, Eva Perez Bello et Daria Marx, Flammarion, 2018. You have the right to remain fat : a manifesto for the fat revolution, Virgie Tovar, Feminist Press, 2018. La dictature des régimes, attention !, Gérard Apfeldorfer et Jean-Philipe Zermati, éditions Odile Jacob, 2006. My skinny sister est un film réalisé par Sanna Lenken en 2015. “Are movies about eating disorders are fundamentally uncinematic ?”, Pacific Standard, 14 juillet 2017. To the bone est un film réalisé par Marti Noxon pour Netlfix en 2017. Les lois de l’attraction est un film réalisé par Roger Avary en 2003. Dietland est une série créée par Marti Noxon basée sur le roman de Sarai Walker du même nom. Un extrait du film Mean Girls où l’héroïne est à la table des filles populaires de son lycée. “The villainization of eating disorders in popular culture”, Women’s Media Center, 3 août 2018. My mad fat diary (Journal d’une ado hors norme) est une série créée par Tom Bidwell en 2013. Cassie est un personnage de la série britannique Skins qui souffre d’anorexie mentale. Miranda est un personnage de la série américaine Sex in the City qui cherche à perdre du poids après sa grossesse et qui adore trop à son goût le chocolat. Daphné dans la version française de la série SKAM souffre d’anorexie mentale. Audrey Hepburn est une actrice américaine qui a souffert d’anorexie et de malnutrition après la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Andy Warhol est un artiste contemporain américain qui traitait de nourriture dans ses oeuvres et qui souffrait probablement de TCA. Elvis Presley est un chanteur américain qui aurait eu pour habitude de remplacer ses repas par du sommeil. Demi Lovato est une chanteuse américaine qui souffre de boulimie depuis son enfance. Lady Gaga est une chanteuse américaine qui a souffert d’anorexie mentale. Taylor Swift : Miss Americana est un documentaire Netflix réalisé en 2020 où la chanteuse évoque entre autres ses troubles alimentaires et son image. La chanteuse Beyoncé vomit dans le clip de Pretty Hurts qui parle des troubles alimentaires et des standards de beauté inatteignables imposés aux femmes. Adele est une chanteuse britannique critiquée à cause de son physique puis félicitée pour sa perte de poids spectaculaire. Jennifer Hudson est une chanteuse et actrice américaine scrutée après une perte de poids de plus de 35 kilos en 2010. Raven-Symoné est une actrice américaine critiquée pour son supposé poids trop élevé depuis son enfance. “Lizzo attaquée par une coach fitness grossophobe : les internautes réagissent”, Terrafemina, 10 janvier 2020. La réponse de la chanteuse Lizzo sur TikTok. All Along You Were Blooming : thoughts for boundless living, Morgan Harper Nicols, Zondervan, 2020. Peau d’homme, bande-dessinée de Hubert, dessinée par Zanzim, Glénat, 2020. Quoi de Meuf est une émission de Nouvelles Écoutes, cet épisode est conçu et présenté par Clémentine Gallot et Kiyémis, mixé par Laurie Galligani. Générique réalisé par Aurore Meyer Mahieu. Montage et coordination Ashley Tola.

Hoje decidimos gravar um mega episódio especial sobre GORDOFOBIA. Não só vamos desmistificar este termo tão polêmico, como também vamos pedir ajuda de outra podcaster maravilhosa pra conseguirmos dar informações mais consistentes. A pressão estética recai sobre todos os corpos, principalmente o das mulheres gordas. Somada a essa exigência social, vemos a gordofobia enraizada na nossa sociedade e expressada pelos meios de comunicação, por nosso vocabulário, pelos espaços públicos e pela indústria da moda. Para falar mais do ponto de vista da mulher gorda, a Fran Carneiro do podcast Más Feministas topou conversar com a gente e nos deu uma aula sobre gordofobia. Ela relatou várias experiências dela e abriu os nossos olhos para situações que a gente não repara no dia a dia, mas que influencia a vida de muita gente, afetando até o direito de ir e vir. Esse tema também já foi abordado no podcast da Fran, o qual recomendamos para todas as pessoas que queiram se descontruir ouvindo um conteúdo super informativo e recheado de entrevistas com pessoas que vão esclarecer várias questões existenciais. Quer saber mais sobre esse tema tão plêmico? Então já aperta o play e vem aprender com a gente o que é a gordofobia! * Podcasts Más Feministas: - Insta: @masfeministaspodcast - Twitter: @masfempodcast - Card: https://masfeministaspodcast.carrd.co/ - Página em O Podcast é Delas: https://opodcastedelas.com.br/masfeministaspodcast/ * Notas de radapé desse episódio: - ALEXANDRISMOS | OBESIDADE, GORDICE: 5 PALAVRAS GORDOFÓBICAS PARA NÃO FALAR MAIS! (com explicação) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1SdJkk3c2s - ALEXANDRISMOS | PRESSÃO ESTÉTICA X GORDOFOBIA: ENTENDA A DIFERENÇA ENTRE AS PALAVRAS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEGuz45vrDg - Dumplin', direção por Anne Fletcher Disponível na Netflix - Shrill Disponível no Google Play - Amor plus size, por Larissa Siriani - Céu sem estrelas, por Iris Figueiredo - Instagram Milena Paulina @olhardepaulina_ - Fome: Uma autobiografia do (meu) corpo, por ALICE KLESCK e Roxane Gay - O Mito da Beleza, por Naomi Wolf - Nunca Te Pedi Nada | PQ NÃO TENHO MAIS VERGONHA DA MINHA BARRIGA - Nunca Te Pedi Nada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSbKYEu25Fc - Más Feministas Podcast | #06 Gordofobia https://open.spotify.com/episode/5pIsMmu5frGFJRwaueNAxT?si=jseaisvkS6WPNPtMOTNlrA - Más Feministas Podcast | #24 Um prato cheio https://open.spotify.com/episode/0fwIJfki8q737PI1dIFw2N?si=v6-JbYCaQOylSSGHcx9wPw - Dietland, por Sarai Walker (livro) - Dietland (série) Disponível na Hulu - Instagram Assedio Moral Nunca Mais! @assedio.nao.mais * Fontes usadas na produção desse episódio: https://www.dicio.com.br/ https://gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/comportamento/noticia/2014/08/Gordofobia-quando-o-sobrepeso-e-alvo-de-intolerancia-e-preconceito-4568939.html https://www.hospitaloswaldocruz.org.br/imprensa/noticias/precisamos-falar-de-gordofobia https://revistagalileu.globo.com/Revista/noticia/2017/05/gordofobia-por-que-esse-preconceito-e-mais-grave-do-que-voce-pensa.html https://www.todasfridas.com.br/2018/09/25/dietland-a-gordofobia-como-questao-feminista/ #mulherespodcasters #podcastbrasil #spotifybrasil #mulhereslivres #feminismoliberta #forçafeminina#mulheresunidas #somosmulheres #circulodemulheres #mulheresincríveis #feminista #feministas#uniaofeminina #feminismobrasil #opodcastédelas #gordofobianãoépiada #gordofobia #gordofobianão #gordofobiamédica #gordofobianaoépiada #gordofobiamata #stopgordofobia #gordofobiamedica #gordofobiaécrime #gordofobiaecrime #gordofobianãoepiada #gordofobiamusical #xôgordofobia #diganaoagordofobia #gordofobiaexiste #antigordofobia --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dicion341rio-feminista/message

Our resident book lovers; Julia, Sara and Jacqui, talk about the books that did not make the cut for April 2020. This month we give our brief review of What’s Left of Me is Yours by Stephanie Scott. This is Stephanie's debut novel based on a true crime story. The second book that is reviewed is Dietland by Sarai Walker, a best-selling novel now TV show on AMC about the beauty industry and unrealistic body expectations the world has for men and women. Follow @paperandinkbox on instagram https://www.instagram.com/paperandinkbox/Follow @paperandinkbox on twitterhttps://twitter.com/paperandinkboxJoin the clubwww.paperandinkbox.comSupport the show (http://www.paperandinkbox.com)

Improving ourselvesWe discuss what we think of the self-improvement industry generally, our favorite self-help books and resources, and what does not work for us when trying to make changes. Here are the links we mentioned in the show:Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl StrayedDear Sugars podcastGlennon Doyle and her memoirs (Carry On, Warrior; Love Warrior; and Untamed)Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui by Karen KingstonThe Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie KondoYou Can Buy Happiness (and It's Cheap) by Tammy StrobelFrugalwoods blog and Meet the Frugalwoods by Elizabeth Willard ThamesThe Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing To Our Brains by Nicholas CarrBored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Creative and Productive Self by Manoush ZomorodiGretchen Rubin's podcast Happier and her books (The Happiness Project, Happier at Home, and Better Than Before)Deep Work and Digital Minimalism by Cal NewportBy the Book podcastHabitbull appCalm appPedometerLife latelyPepper has reached a new milestone: walking!HP is entertaining both himself and E with homemade arcade games, inspired by this video.Reading latelyAbby read Dietland by Sarai Walker and Sarah read Atomic Habits by James Clear.Eating latelySarah made hot fudge sauce and Abby is enjoying cabbage cooked in the Instant Pot.If you’d like to join in the conversation, please leave us a comment, email us at friendlierpodcast@gmail.com, or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for listening! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kaitlin Anderle is making waves with her must follow instagram account that talks all about her experience with weight loss surgery. Our discussion really opened my eyes and I hope it is as enlightening for you. During this chat her and I explore: • Kaitlin’s body liberation journey • Kaitlin’s weight loss surgery experience • A comparison between Kaitlin and Plum’s experiences with weight loss surgery • Do we need people in our lives like Verena in order to grow? • Fitting into the fat acceptance movement • The hypocrisy of our culture in terms of disordered “health” behaviours • The power and destruction of praise from others • What it means to be feminine and fat • Black and white thinking in eating disorders • Dating in a larger body • Looking at pictures of women in larger bodies on social media • The theme in the book surrounding being both visible and invisible at the same time

My guest this week is the incredible film maker, speaker & activist Kelli Jean Drinkwater, and she has a huge fire in her belly about how fat people are represented onstage! Fat people have been virtually invisible in the creative arts, but Kelli Jean’s mission is to bring them into the limelight! In order to combat weight stigma and create a world in which all bodies belong, it is VITAL that fat people are represented in the creative arts. And not just as a boring STEREOTYPE, but as fully rounded, amazing, positive and UNAPOLOGETIC humans! Join me for a fantastic conversation as Kelli Jean & I unpack how things are changing in the industry & what still needs to be challenged. And hear all about Kelli Jeans’ simply INCREDIBLE projects! This is a fabulous & inspiring episode from an artist who professionally BLOWS PEOPLE’S MINDS!     Shownotes   My guest is Sydney based film maker, speaker and activist Kelli Jean Drinkwater, who is totally fired up about fat representation in the media. Louise talks about how she & Kelli Jean first met several years ago on the set of Insight, a tv program in which there was an ‘ambush’ of fat activists and Kelli Jean was in the front line of host Jenny Brockie’s fatphobia. Her anger acts as fuel to change how fat people are being represented. We can get fired up in 2 ways, because although on one hand representation and casting of fat characters are getting better, there’s still a long way to go! There’s been a recent spate of films and tv shows especially in the USA which feature fat narratives, but they are still centred around cis gendered, white, heterosexual perspectives, and also the smaller side of fat people being cast. We have stories like Shrill, where the character is fat and staying fat, and Dietland, adapted from the amazing novel by Sarai Walker, where it’s still very good & fat positive but still some decisions made in that process which reflect weight bias. Like in both Shrill & in Dietland the main fat characters had love interests or sexual partners that were just awful men! In Shrill, her love interest feels ashamed of her and makes her leave out of the back door. She’s meant to be this onto it fat woman and wh???? So eventually he comes around and says ok meet my friends, and she doesn’t dump him. And in Dietland the main character is a virgin, and rather than having a good experience she has this awful experience with a fetishist and a feeder who then rapes her. And it’s like - “ok, so that’s the kind of sex we’re going to see?” It could be done differently, and that’s frustrating. And then there’s the movie “Dumplin”, which Louise liked, she never saw anything like that when she was growing up. And it’s lovely to see the thin character (the mum, Jennifer Aniston), as the one always dieting, miserable and insecure. There’s some great characters in this - the fat auntie, who is always supportive of her. But then the aunt dies, and we’re not told why but it’s implied it’s because she was fat!? The love interest in Dumplin was great, he’s the hot guy and he is also lovely, he has no qualms about being attracted to her, and they just get together and it’s all ok. This is a narrative we need to see. Love is possible no matter what you look like. The hot guy can want to be with the fat girl. Kelli Jean related to her love of Dolly Parton, and the camp friends! Also the swimsuit scene at the end - they were in swing dresses and not bikinis??? There are things like that that we’re still not seeing, and Kelli Jean is keen as a film maker to push things further, to include more inclusivity and positivity to fat characters. Having a fat character in a story is not good enough, we need to see it handled properly. Kelli Jean’s first documentary was Aquaporko, all about the fat women’s synchronised swimming team that she started. The women are all extremely smiley, and they’re all in fantastic swim hats - which she got online from Esther Williams. Kelli Jean loved the beach and has always loved swimming and being in the water. But for years she did not go to the beach or swimming because of how she felt about her body. It’s such a basic thing, to swim and be in water, but for fat people this can be fraught. Aquaporko is a beautiful, fun, unapologetic and confronting story of fat people being in their bodies and loving it. And also of being in public, and taking up space. It was an important and transformative film for the people who were involved. That’s why she did Aquaporko, she did not want other people to not do things they love for years and years. The film came about after Kelli Jean got some friends together and at a Sydney public pool they taught themselves synchronised swimming, just for laughs. There was no agenda, but people would clap us when we got out of the pool. It got some traction and media attention, a chapter started in Brisbane & in Melbourne. The Melbourne team practised & became quite good. It got to the point where they were going to do a performance at the pool, Kelli Jean thought - well, I am a film maker, and so the film was born! It premiered at the Mardi Gras film festival in Sydney, and everyone loved it. It won the audience award. It’s colourful, it’s different, it’s a bit camp, it’s just very joyful. It’s shown in 47 countries now as part of different film festivals. It still gets requests to screen. Now Kelli Jean has made a feature film, Nothing to Lose, this also gets attention, but Aquaporko is just loved. Nothing to lose is Kelli Jean’s first feature film. She co-directed it, without funding. It’s the story - in 2013 she was approached by Kate Champion, a very well known choreographer and theatre director for Force Majeur. She wanted to a dance theatre production exploring the fat dancing body, body politics and explore why this is such a taboo subject. In clubs, Kate’s eye was always drawn to bigger people dancing. Realising that she is a very slim, trained dancer, Kate realised she needed to collaborate with a fat artist who understands not just the performance but also the politics. Kelli Jean was the perfect choice! Kelli Jean offered artistic direction on the production, and decided to make a film about it on the way. It took 3 years off and on to make the show, and the film goes from the auditions to opening night. The show and the film explore not just the choreography and what fat bodies can do, but also about the people involved and their relationship to their bodies. It was amazing to have this show, commissioned by the Sydney Festival, choreographed by an accomplished person like Kate Champion. This really is ‘mainstream’ art in Sydney! At the time, nothing like it had been done. Dance theatre isn’t just dance, it’s theatre as well. It was very well received, and there was lots of media attention on it from all over the world. Just the concept of fat people dancing blew people’s minds. In the film they talked about the level of interest - is that just ‘the freak show’ or are people genuinely interested? But it got really positive reviews, almost all positive. Which was a bit disappointing as no piece of art is perfect. On Kate’s advice Kelli Jean and the cast decided during the performance time not to read comments or reviews. To allow themselves to just do the shows without worrying about how it was being received. Which is a good idea - there is an underground, Reddit based group of people who almost professionally hate fat people for no apparent reason. The show toured to Melbourne but not internationally. It’s almost like the people putting on these shows are ok with it because it is very ‘of the moment’ - it is controversial, which gets attention and therefore money. But they are still very cautious about it. Which is why it was good to work with Kate because she is not cautious! So it’s the same thing: yes, you can do a fat story - BUT, it has to be a white woman, and fat but not massively fat - and not TOO happy. And of course that is part of the story - you don’t just go I’m fat & I’m happy about that, we carry all of this baggage around with us all of the time. And so it makes sense that the characters who are written also carry this around - it would be weird if they didn’t. But there is ways we can push. And to not tour internationally is a shame, because it would have gone off! But this is why it’s great that Kelli Jean made the film. Everyone who worked on the film did it for free, for years. Because they believed this story needed to get out, and because the show did not tour. The film premiered at a queer film festival in San Francisco in 2018 and a massive premiere at Quuer screen at Mardi Gras in 2018. It has gone on to have a number of international screenings too, so it is getting seen! Also SBS on Demand bought it, so Australians can view it for free (link in resources). The film is the legacy of the show, and they’re all so glad it’s having success. Louise was in the audience (again) for Kelli Jean’s TED Talk which she gave at the Opera House. That came about from a funny story: Kelli Jean was in the audience at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Opera House in Sydney, listening to Sarai Walker, author of Dietland, who was talking about radical fat acceptance. Her talk was all about the need to stop distracting from ideas of pure, radical acceptance by talking about ‘health’. At the end of her talk all of the questions were about health! Kelli Jean got up and caused a scene! She got up and said - I don’t have a question, but I just want to say I am embarrassed that here we are at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, and here we are again talking about health! It was very triggering for Kelli Jean, because of the Insight experience and how she was hijacked there. Kelli Jean was like, “oh my god it’s happening again”. Afterwards, Edwina Throsby who was the head of TEDx Sydney, came up and said I want you to do a TED talk. Kelli Jean got a standing ovation for her comment at Sarai’s talk (Louise was not brave enough to get up!). For Kelli Jean, it’s not a choice. “I can’t not say something.” Kelli Jean felt bad for getting a standing ovation and taking the focus off Sarai, but she thanked her later for saving her. Here we are, Festival of Dangerous Ideas, with an accomplished novelist with some amazing ideas. And people still could not let go of their bullshit around health.? The entitlement of that - the idea that they can say “no you’re wrong, this is a wrong idea” - rather than “I’m really challenged by what you’re saying”. It’s just “No, you’re wrong, and you’re going to die because you’re fat”. People cannot let that go, because letting that go challenges and threatens their whole way of being in their own bodies, and their own relationships with their bodies. If we go “Hey, we’re fat, we’re going to live in our bodies and wear bikinis and show our bodies and love them and have sexy time and eat whatever the fuck we want”, people can’t deal. A lot of people invest so much time into trying to maintain a thin body, that to suggest that time could be better spent is too much. Small people don’t have it easy either: they may feel they have to invest a lot into maintaining it, because of a belief that it maintains happiness or acceptance or health. Engaging in diet culture is tiring for all of us. If you challenge that, they freak out. People get defensive and don’t want to listen. Kelli Jean gets it - it’s a massive capitalist machine. There’s a lot of money to be made by making sure women hate their bodies. The sexist, [atriarchal structure of capitalism is a lot to challenge. But come on - if you’re paying for a talk which is specifically to challenge you, be challenged! Kelli Jean is sure that if TED talks had a question time, the exact same thing would have happened. The TED talk was one of the scariest things Kelli Jean has ever done. But if someone says to you hey, do you want to talk to potentially millions of people on the main stage of the Opera House about something that you love - you’re not going to say no! There were 2500 people at the Opera House, but there were also 20 000 people watching live around the world! And no auto cue - Kelli Jean had to remember the whole thing off by heart. She did have notes stuffed down her bra. This was also one of the first TED talks to ever address the topic of fat positivity. So it got picked up by TED.com - they call it “Big Ted” in the USA & put on their platform. So now nearly 2 million people have watched it! Of course, when the talk went up there was a huge number of hateful comments. Kelli Jean spoke to the TED people to say that this is really damaging for fat people who might read these comments, so they actually disabled the comments both here and in the USA. Kelli Jean never read them, but heard how awful and violent they were, and she didn’t want people exposed to that. Kelli Jean knows how awful it can be, and knows it’s coming if she puts something out there. But she feels for the people who may not know and be impacted by the vitriol and outright hatred. It’s awful to think there are people out there who have nothing better to do than hate on people, especially women, who are ok with themselves. That threatens the patriarchy, the status quo, and it freaks people out. Some people (??Dylan Meryn?) meet people who troll them & find out they are just sad or have difficult lives or whatever. Kelli Jean does not want to do that! But she does want people to understand that people who troll like that are sad & have their own issues. So the resistance to fat representation centres on 2 main ‘arguments’: 1) “but what about health”, and 2) hatred. Without doubt the most vitriol comes from straight men. But as a queer woman, Kelli Jean could not care less if they find her attractive or if she offends them visually. Which is possibly why they find people like her threatening! This trolling and hatred fuels Kelli Jean’s fat activist fire. And it doesn’t feel like a choice for Kelli Jean. and it’s wonderful to see how far activism has come. There are some really popular and mainstream artists, like Lizzo, and this is very different from when she grew up. Kelli Jean loves the fact that so many fat younger people are owning it, wearing crop tops etc and just unapologetic about their size. As a teenager she never ever saw stuff like that! She bought into it for ages - and then, just got jack of it! Although she’s been in this thinking and activism space for a long time, it is still a process. There are still hard times. Kelli Jean is now directing a short film called “The Rainbow Passage”, it’s about Cadence Autumn-Bell. It’s her story about her transition, and her girlfriend is also transitioning, and they’re in Bathurst (small NSW country town). While fat positivity is important, Kelli jean also wants to focus on body positivity overall, and all of the intersections and layers of this, affirming gender diversity, differently abled bodies, being intergenerational, holding space for people of colour and their stories. Because it’s all interconnected. Intersectional feminism is the only way really! The other project is top secret, and we’re super excited about it! All of these ideas of loving who you are and pushing back against the dominant narrative are interconnected. We talk about the Insight show & how people questioned whether or not Kelli Jean was a swimmer. She just is! At the end of the Insight taping, kelli Jean told them that they could not show any of the scenes from Aquaporko on the show, because they’d treated her so awfully. Kelli Jean is often asked to take part in shows like this and she usually says no, because she will not set herself up for another ambush. It’s understandable that many fat activists are wary about appearing in the media, because they are so often ambushed with the interviewer’s own internalised weight stigma. The host of Insight, Jenny Brockie, obviously has her own issues with weight, because we’d never seen her so un-objective and accusatory towards a guest on the show. Jenny Brockie really went for Kelli Jean, but as usual she handled it like a champ! Resources: A link to the SBS Insight show which they called “Fat Fighters” (we did not know this was going to be the title, another aspect of the ambush) The transcript from the SBS show Insight Sarai Walker’s (author of Dietland) talk at the Festival of Dangerous ideas on radical Fat Acceptance Shrill by Lindy West - the book. Shrill the tv series. Dietland the book and the tv series Dumplin Aquaporko Aussie people can watch Nothing to Lose on SBS on Demand Watch Kelli Jean’s Ted Talk Find out more about Kelli Jean here

My guest this week is the incredible film maker, speaker & activist Kelli Jean Drinkwater, and she has a huge fire in her belly about how fat people are represented onstage! Fat people have been virtually invisible in the creative arts, but Kelli Jean’s mission is to bring them into the limelight! In order to combat weight stigma and create a world in which all bodies belong, it is VITAL that fat people are represented in the creative arts. And not just as a boring STEREOTYPE, but as fully rounded, amazing, positive and UNAPOLOGETIC humans! Join me for a fantastic conversation as Kelli Jean & I unpack how things are changing in the industry & what still needs to be challenged. And hear all about Kelli Jeans’ simply INCREDIBLE projects! This is a fabulous & inspiring episode from an artist who professionally BLOWS PEOPLE’S MINDS!     Shownotes   My guest is Sydney based film maker, speaker and activist Kelli Jean Drinkwater, who is totally fired up about fat representation in the media. Louise talks about how she & Kelli Jean first met several years ago on the set of Insight, a tv program in which there was an ‘ambush’ of fat activists and Kelli Jean was in the front line of host Jenny Brockie’s fatphobia. Her anger acts as fuel to change how fat people are being represented. We can get fired up in 2 ways, because although on one hand representation and casting of fat characters are getting better, there’s still a long way to go! There’s been a recent spate of films and tv shows especially in the USA which feature fat narratives, but they are still centred around cis gendered, white, heterosexual perspectives, and also the smaller side of fat people being cast. We have stories like Shrill, where the character is fat and staying fat, and Dietland, adapted from the amazing novel by Sarai Walker, where it’s still very good & fat positive but still some decisions made in that process which reflect weight bias. Like in both Shrill & in Dietland the main fat characters had love interests or sexual partners that were just awful men! In Shrill, her love interest feels ashamed of her and makes her leave out of the back door. She’s meant to be this onto it fat woman and wh???? So eventually he comes around and says ok meet my friends, and she doesn’t dump him. And in Dietland the main character is a virgin, and rather than having a good experience she has this awful experience with a fetishist and a feeder who then rapes her. And it’s like - “ok, so that’s the kind of sex we’re going to see?” It could be done differently, and that’s frustrating. And then there’s the movie “Dumplin”, which Louise liked, she never saw anything like that when she was growing up. And it’s lovely to see the thin character (the mum, Jennifer Aniston), as the one always dieting, miserable and insecure. There’s some great characters in this - the fat auntie, who is always supportive of her. But then the aunt dies, and we’re not told why but it’s implied it’s because she was fat!? The love interest in Dumplin was great, he’s the hot guy and he is also lovely, he has no qualms about being attracted to her, and they just get together and it’s all ok. This is a narrative we need to see. Love is possible no matter what you look like. The hot guy can want to be with the fat girl. Kelli Jean related to her love of Dolly Parton, and the camp friends! Also the swimsuit scene at the end - they were in swing dresses and not bikinis??? There are things like that that we’re still not seeing, and Kelli Jean is keen as a film maker to push things further, to include more inclusivity and positivity to fat characters. Having a fat character in a story is not good enough, we need to see it handled properly. Kelli Jean’s first documentary was Aquaporko, all about the fat women’s synchronised swimming team that she started. The women are all extremely smiley, and they’re all in fantastic swim hats - which she got online from Esther Williams. Kelli Jean loved the beach and has always loved swimming and being in the water. But for years she did not go to the beach or swimming because of how she felt about her body. It’s such a basic thing, to swim and be in water, but for fat people this can be fraught. Aquaporko is a beautiful, fun, unapologetic and confronting story of fat people being in their bodies and loving it. And also of being in public, and taking up space. It was an important and transformative film for the people who were involved. That’s why she did Aquaporko, she did not want other people to not do things they love for years and years. The film came about after Kelli Jean got some friends together and at a Sydney public pool they taught themselves synchronised swimming, just for laughs. There was no agenda, but people would clap us when we got out of the pool. It got some traction and media attention, a chapter started in Brisbane & in Melbourne. The Melbourne team practised & became quite good. It got to the point where they were going to do a performance at the pool, Kelli Jean thought - well, I am a film maker, and so the film was born! It premiered at the Mardi Gras film festival in Sydney, and everyone loved it. It won the audience award. It’s colourful, it’s different, it’s a bit camp, it’s just very joyful. It’s shown in 47 countries now as part of different film festivals. It still gets requests to screen. Now Kelli Jean has made a feature film, Nothing to Lose, this also gets attention, but Aquaporko is just loved. Nothing to lose is Kelli Jean’s first feature film. She co-directed it, without funding. It’s the story - in 2013 she was approached by Kate Champion, a very well known choreographer and theatre director for Force Majeur. She wanted to a dance theatre production exploring the fat dancing body, body politics and explore why this is such a taboo subject. In clubs, Kate’s eye was always drawn to bigger people dancing. Realising that she is a very slim, trained dancer, Kate realised she needed to collaborate with a fat artist who understands not just the performance but also the politics. Kelli Jean was the perfect choice! Kelli Jean offered artistic direction on the production, and decided to make a film about it on the way. It took 3 years off and on to make the show, and the film goes from the auditions to opening night. The show and the film explore not just the choreography and what fat bodies can do, but also about the people involved and their relationship to their bodies. It was amazing to have this show, commissioned by the Sydney Festival, choreographed by an accomplished person like Kate Champion. This really is ‘mainstream’ art in Sydney! At the time, nothing like it had been done. Dance theatre isn’t just dance, it’s theatre as well. It was very well received, and there was lots of media attention on it from all over the world. Just the concept of fat people dancing blew people’s minds. In the film they talked about the level of interest - is that just ‘the freak show’ or are people genuinely interested? But it got really positive reviews, almost all positive. Which was a bit disappointing as no piece of art is perfect. On Kate’s advice Kelli Jean and the cast decided during the performance time not to read comments or reviews. To allow themselves to just do the shows without worrying about how it was being received. Which is a good idea - there is an underground, Reddit based group of people who almost professionally hate fat people for no apparent reason. The show toured to Melbourne but not internationally. It’s almost like the people putting on these shows are ok with it because it is very ‘of the moment’ - it is controversial, which gets attention and therefore money. But they are still very cautious about it. Which is why it was good to work with Kate because she is not cautious! So it’s the same thing: yes, you can do a fat story - BUT, it has to be a white woman, and fat but not massively fat - and not TOO happy. And of course that is part of the story - you don’t just go I’m fat & I’m happy about that, we carry all of this baggage around with us all of the time. And so it makes sense that the characters who are written also carry this around - it would be weird if they didn’t. But there is ways we can push. And to not tour internationally is a shame, because it would have gone off! But this is why it’s great that Kelli Jean made the film. Everyone who worked on the film did it for free, for years. Because they believed this story needed to get out, and because the show did not tour. The film premiered at a queer film festival in San Francisco in 2018 and a massive premiere at Quuer screen at Mardi Gras in 2018. It has gone on to have a number of international screenings too, so it is getting seen! Also SBS on Demand bought it, so Australians can view it for free (link in resources). The film is the legacy of the show, and they’re all so glad it’s having success. Louise was in the audience (again) for Kelli Jean’s TED Talk which she gave at the Opera House. That came about from a funny story: Kelli Jean was in the audience at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Opera House in Sydney, listening to Sarai Walker, author of Dietland, who was talking about radical fat acceptance. Her talk was all about the need to stop distracting from ideas of pure, radical acceptance by talking about ‘health’. At the end of her talk all of the questions were about health! Kelli Jean got up and caused a scene! She got up and said - I don’t have a question, but I just want to say I am embarrassed that here we are at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, and here we are again talking about health! It was very triggering for Kelli Jean, because of the Insight experience and how she was hijacked there. Kelli Jean was like, “oh my god it’s happening again”. Afterwards, Edwina Throsby who was the head of TEDx Sydney, came up and said I want you to do a TED talk. Kelli Jean got a standing ovation for her comment at Sarai’s talk (Louise was not brave enough to get up!). For Kelli Jean, it’s not a choice. “I can’t not say something.” Kelli Jean felt bad for getting a standing ovation and taking the focus off Sarai, but she thanked her later for saving her. Here we are, Festival of Dangerous Ideas, with an accomplished novelist with some amazing ideas. And people still could not let go of their bullshit around health.? The entitlement of that - the idea that they can say “no you’re wrong, this is a wrong idea” - rather than “I’m really challenged by what you’re saying”. It’s just “No, you’re wrong, and you’re going to die because you’re fat”. People cannot let that go, because letting that go challenges and threatens their whole way of being in their own bodies, and their own relationships with their bodies. If we go “Hey, we’re fat, we’re going to live in our bodies and wear bikinis and show our bodies and love them and have sexy time and eat whatever the fuck we want”, people can’t deal. A lot of people invest so much time into trying to maintain a thin body, that to suggest that time could be better spent is too much. Small people don’t have it easy either: they may feel they have to invest a lot into maintaining it, because of a belief that it maintains happiness or acceptance or health. Engaging in diet culture is tiring for all of us. If you challenge that, they freak out. People get defensive and don’t want to listen. Kelli Jean gets it - it’s a massive capitalist machine. There’s a lot of money to be made by making sure women hate their bodies. The sexist, [atriarchal structure of capitalism is a lot to challenge. But come on - if you’re paying for a talk which is specifically to challenge you, be challenged! Kelli Jean is sure that if TED talks had a question time, the exact same thing would have happened. The TED talk was one of the scariest things Kelli Jean has ever done. But if someone says to you hey, do you want to talk to potentially millions of people on the main stage of the Opera House about something that you love - you’re not going to say no! There were 2500 people at the Opera House, but there were also 20 000 people watching live around the world! And no auto cue - Kelli Jean had to remember the whole thing off by heart. She did have notes stuffed down her bra. This was also one of the first TED talks to ever address the topic of fat positivity. So it got picked up by TED.com - they call it “Big Ted” in the USA & put on their platform. So now nearly 2 million people have watched it! Of course, when the talk went up there was a huge number of hateful comments. Kelli Jean spoke to the TED people to say that this is really damaging for fat people who might read these comments, so they actually disabled the comments both here and in the USA. Kelli Jean never read them, but heard how awful and violent they were, and she didn’t want people exposed to that. Kelli Jean knows how awful it can be, and knows it’s coming if she puts something out there. But she feels for the people who may not know and be impacted by the vitriol and outright hatred. It’s awful to think there are people out there who have nothing better to do than hate on people, especially women, who are ok with themselves. That threatens the patriarchy, the status quo, and it freaks people out. Some people (??Dylan Meryn?) meet people who troll them & find out they are just sad or have difficult lives or whatever. Kelli Jean does not want to do that! But she does want people to understand that people who troll like that are sad & have their own issues. So the resistance to fat representation centres on 2 main ‘arguments’: 1) “but what about health”, and 2) hatred. Without doubt the most vitriol comes from straight men. But as a queer woman, Kelli Jean could not care less if they find her attractive or if she offends them visually. Which is possibly why they find people like her threatening! This trolling and hatred fuels Kelli Jean’s fat activist fire. And it doesn’t feel like a choice for Kelli Jean. and it’s wonderful to see how far activism has come. There are some really popular and mainstream artists, like Lizzo, and this is very different from when she grew up. Kelli Jean loves the fact that so many fat younger people are owning it, wearing crop tops etc and just unapologetic about their size. As a teenager she never ever saw stuff like that! She bought into it for ages - and then, just got jack of it! Although she’s been in this thinking and activism space for a long time, it is still a process. There are still hard times. Kelli Jean is now directing a short film called “The Rainbow Passage”, it’s about Cadence Autumn-Bell. It’s her story about her transition, and her girlfriend is also transitioning, and they’re in Bathurst (small NSW country town). While fat positivity is important, Kelli jean also wants to focus on body positivity overall, and all of the intersections and layers of this, affirming gender diversity, differently abled bodies, being intergenerational, holding space for people of colour and their stories. Because it’s all interconnected. Intersectional feminism is the only way really! The other project is top secret, and we’re super excited about it! All of these ideas of loving who you are and pushing back against the dominant narrative are interconnected. We talk about the Insight show & how people questioned whether or not Kelli Jean was a swimmer. She just is! At the end of the Insight taping, kelli Jean told them that they could not show any of the scenes from Aquaporko on the show, because they’d treated her so awfully. Kelli Jean is often asked to take part in shows like this and she usually says no, because she will not set herself up for another ambush. It’s understandable that many fat activists are wary about appearing in the media, because they are so often ambushed with the interviewer’s own internalised weight stigma. The host of Insight, Jenny Brockie, obviously has her own issues with weight, because we’d never seen her so un-objective and accusatory towards a guest on the show. Jenny Brockie really went for Kelli Jean, but as usual she handled it like a champ! Resources: A link to the SBS Insight show which they called “Fat Fighters” (we did not know this was going to be the title, another aspect of the ambush) The transcript from the SBS show Insight Sarai Walker’s (author of Dietland) talk at the Festival of Dangerous ideas on radical Fat Acceptance Shrill by Lindy West - the book. Shrill the tv series. Dietland the book and the tv series Dumplin Aquaporko Aussie people can watch Nothing to Lose on SBS on Demand Watch Kelli Jean’s Ted Talk Find out more about Kelli Jean here

"For white feminists, it’s imperative to really focus on and take responsibility for the role that race plays in feminism and equality or rather, inequality." - Cristen Conger   This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Smitten Kitten.   Cristen Conger and Caroline Ervin are the Atlanta-based, journalistically trained, research-addicted hosts of the podcast Unladylike and the cofounders of Unladlike Media, where they produce inclusive digital media. As creators and former cohosts of Stuff Mom Never Told You, iTunes' first educational women's podcast, the pair has spent the better part of a decade contextualizing constructs, debunking body myths, sourcing cultural stereotypes, and overusing the word heteronormative in casual conversation.   Cristen and Caroline launched Unladylike Media as a home for their creative work: A book (Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space), which came out in October 2018; a podcast (Unladylike), which launched in January 2018; and all the rest of their feminist-media endeavors like live events and speaking engagements. The through line of all of their work is a dedication to making feminist media that moves — they want to provide audiences with the “why” behind the way things are in addition to a solid dose of ragespiration.     Pick up your copy of Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space by Cristen Conger and Caroline Ervin Keep up with all things Unladylike @unladylikemedia and at unladylike.co. Follow Unladylike's illustrator Tyler Feder on Instagram @tylerfeder   Cristen's book recommendations: All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz Dietland by Sarai Walker   Caroline's book recommendations: The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper   Sign up for the La Voz Silenciada, our own course on Spanish speaking women poets hosted by Maria Ortega Garcia. Use code FBC50 for half off!   About today's sponsor: The Smitten Kitten is a progressive, education-based sex toy store located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and online at SmittenKittenOnline.com. When you visit our store or website, you can expect to find a welcoming, shame-free environment, accurate and inclusive answers to your questions, and high-quality, body-safe products to fit any budget. We are a queer- and locally-owned small business and we strive to espouse social justice in every aspect of our work, from our educational programming and events to the accessibility of our space to our community donations and partnerships. -   Website: feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Facebook: Feminist Book Club Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Email newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dvRgvD   - Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Original music by @amiofficialmusic Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript2   Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/subscribe.

Boy oh boy, we go deep on Anastasia, the first book in the Ringing Cedars series by Vladimir Megre. Is it a Russian cult?  A ponzi scheme? An elaborate prank on us, your sweet and unsuspecting hosts? All we know for sure is that this sh*t is f*cking insane. Wake up and smell the cedars, people, this is a wild ride. Links: Video on homesteading, Vladimir explains Anastasia, more about homesteading. Books mentioned: Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl; Dan Brown, Angles and Demons; Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch; Maxwell Maltz, Psycho Cybernetics; Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk; Paul Le Farge, The Night Ocean; Dara Horn, Eternal Life; Sarai Walker, Dietland. Email us at thatbookpod@gmail.com. Friend us on Goodreads and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

This week we discuss children’s programming, #IWeigh, and our favorite fat books of 2018.   This episode of She’s All Fat is sponsored by TomboyX. She’s All Fat listeners get an extra 15% off by entering code “SAF2018” at checkout on tomboyx.com.   We are an independent production. If you’d like to support the work we do,  you can join our Patreon by visiting patreon.com/shesallfatpod.  When you pledge to be a supporter, you’ll get all sorts of goodies like our Patreon-only Facebook Group and extra content.   If you are interested in the perks available to our Patrons but you are not able to afford the monthly contribution, apply for our Patreon Scholarship! If you are a member of the Fatmily interested in becoming a sponsor, contact us here.   Need advice? Email/send voice memo to fyi@shesallfatpod.com.   Follow us! Twitter / Instagram / Get updates!   You can find us on: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Google Play / Pocket Cast / PlayerFM / CastBox   Need something else? Check out our site: shesallfatpod.com   Download an SAF Wallpaper here!   Mentioned in this episode:   I’m Obsessed: H.E.R. New Single. Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures. Monster High. Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister. Akata Witch.   The Meat of It: My Life as a Goddess by Guy Branum. You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar. Samantha Irby. Landwhale by Jes Baker. Body Positivity Power by Megan Jayne Crabbe. The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor. Reclaiming Beauty Journal & Wisdom Deck by Heidi Anderson with Illustrations by Leah Joy. Julie Murphy. Julie Murphy on Instagram. Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli. Dietland by Sarai Walker. Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy Spalding. The Belly Book by Fran Manushkin. Diverse Books. Book Riot. Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie. Talia Hibbert. Dana Series. Suzanne LaFleshe.

Cześć! Przed Wami 32. odcinek Czytu Czytu, tym razem już w pełnym składzie! W tym tygodniu w naszych torebkach powieść reklamowana jako „Fight Club dla kobiet”, biografia dwóch niezwykłych ludzi kultury oraz antologia opowiadań kryminalnych. Później zaś – niezwykle obszerna rozmowa o ekranizacjach książek, począwszy od hollywoodzkich hitów, po polskie adaptacje lektur szkolnych. Posłuchajcie koniecznie, żeby wiedzieć, którego pisarza nie warto zapraszać na imprezy! Dajcie nam znać, jakie były według Was najlepsze, a jakie najgorsze ekranizacje książek. Pamiętajcie też, że stale czekamy na Wasze maile pod adresem czytuczytu@podsluchane.pl. Do usłyszenia! Spis treści Co mamy w torebce: 00:00:40 – „Dietoland”, Sarai Walker (papier, ebook) 00:10:35 – „Beksińscy. Portret podwójny”, Magdalena Grzebałkowska (papier, audiobook) 00:17:04 – „Opowiem ci o zbrodni”, antologia (papier) Temat odcinka: 00:23:10 – Ekranizacje książek Czytu Czytu prowadzą: Magdalena Adamus (Megu) Marta Najman (Oceansoul) Katarzyna Czajka-Kominiarczuk (Zwierz Popkulturalny) Jesteśmy częścią sieci podcastów Podsluchane.pl: Odwiedź naszą stronę: www.czytuczytu.pl Napisz do nas na: czytuczytu@podsluchane.pl Sprawdź inne nasze podcasty: www.podsluchane.pl Polub fanpage naszej sieci: www.facebook.com/podsluchanepl Zobacz nasz sklep z gadżetami: www.podsluchane.pl/sklep

C'est la nouveauté de cette saison 2 : un dimanche sur deux, retrouvez un QDM de poche, un mini-épisode sur un objet culturel à la sauce Quoi de meuf. Dans ce premier épisode, Kiyémis et Clémentine Gallot parlent de Dietland, la série américaine diffusée par AMC qui aborde les questions de grossophobie et féminisme.Les références entendues dans l’épisode :La série Dietland produite et diffusée par AMC (2018)Le livre Dietland a été écrit par Sarai Walker (2015)Le livre "Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls" de Jessica Baker Hunger le livre de Roxane Gay (2017)Le discours complet de Roxane Gay suite à la sortie de son livre prononcé en 2017La série This is us produite par NBC (2016)La série Loosely Exactly Nicole produite par MTV (2016)Le film To the bone produit par Netflix et réalisé par Marti Noxon (2017)La série Sharp Objects produite par HBO (2018)La série Unreal (2015) sur les dessous de la télé-réalité La série Insatiable produite par Netflix (2018), l'histoire d'une adolescente grosse qui réussit à se venger qu'une fois qu'elle a maigri. Retrouvez Kiyemis sur twitter Pour poser une question à la team Quoi de meuf : hello@quoidemeuf.netPour s'inscrire à la géniale newsletter Quoi de meuf : http://quoidemeuf.net/Quoi de Meuf est une émission animée par Clémentine Gallot et Kiyémis, produite par Nouvelles Écoutes. Réalisée par Aurore Meyer Mahieu, montée et mixée par Laurie Galligani et coordonnée par Laura Cuissard.

A manifesto for the fat revolution: You Have the Right to Remain Fat. Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it—and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she’s been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free from moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life with respect. In concise and candid language, she delves into unlearning fatphobia, dismantling sexist notions of fashion, and rejecting diet culture’s greatest lie: that fat people need to wait before beginning their best lives. Tovar is joined in conversation by Sarai Walker, author of the novel Dietland.

Dietland Paul and Elgin review #Dietland: Dietland on AMC, created by Marti Noxon, based on the novel by Sarai Walker, and starring Joy Nash and Julianna Margulies. This show is a dark satire about dealing with the beauty industrial complex during the #MeToo era. We discuss Nash’s central performance as Alicia “Plum” Kettle (the show’s plus-size protagonist, who […]

Dietland is a wickedly funny and extraordinarily timed satire which premieres tonight, Monday 4 June at 9PM on AMC. It's based on Sarai Walker’s 2015 best-selling, critically acclaimed novel of the same name. While we eagerly await Episode 1, I’m delighted to say that Sarai is my guest on the show today! The heroine of the story is Plum Kettle, a ghostwriter for the editor of one of New York’s hottest fashion magazines. Struggling with self-image and fed up with how she’s treated by her boss and society, Plum sets out on a wildly complicated road to self-awakening. At the same time, everyone is buzzing over news reports about men, accused of sexual abuse and assault, who are disappearing and meeting untimely, violent deaths. Plum also finds herself in the middle of two factions — one sisterhood who may be responsible for the attacks on male harassers, and the other which preaches female empowerment. She straddles these two groups, trying to make sense of the changing world and her part in it. Equal parts revenge fantasy and heartfelt journey to self-acceptance, Dietland is a darkly comedic story that explores a multitude of issues faced by women today — including patriarchy, misogyny, rape culture, and unrealistic beauty standards. About Sarai Sarai Walker is author of the novel DIETLAND (May 2015), which is now a TV series on AMC in the USA and Canada, and on Amazon Prime in countries around the world. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian and the Washington Post. Sarai worked as a writer and editor on the 2005 update of Our Bodies, Ourselves, and previously wrote for magazines including Seventeen and Mademoiselle. She earned her M.F.A. in creative writing from Bennington College, and Ph.D. in English from the University of London. Walker is currently living in Los Angeles, where she is developing a new TV series, as well as writing a second novel, which is even more bonkers than her first one. Follow Sarai Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram --- Support the show Thank you to our generous supporters! We are working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page. --- You can subscribe to Body Kindness on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! - http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1073275062 Are you ready for Body Kindness? Get started today with my free e-course and on-demand digital training. Learn more - http://bit.ly/2k23nbT The New York Times Book Review calls Body Kindness 'simple and true'. Publisher's Weekly says it's 'a rousing guide to better health.' http://bit.ly/2k228t9 Watch my videos about why we need Body Kindness on YouTube. https://youtu.be/W7rATQpv5y8?list=PLQPvfnaYpPCUT9MOwHByVwN1f-bL2rn1V --- Enjoy the show? Please subscribe and rate it. Have a show idea or guest recommendation (even yourself!) E-mail podcast@bodykindnessbook.com to get in touch. Join us on the Body Kindness Podcast Facebook group where you can continue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners. See you there! Nothing in this podcast is meant to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Individuals should consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

Joy Nash, star of AMC's new series, DIETLAND (based on the book by Sarai Walker), stops in and gives us the "never give up" pep-talk. Joy encourages the ladies by sharing her story to stardom and sharing how she did anything from managing property to pet fur-tography to follow her dream of acting. That drive led her here and now she is just days away from the premiere of a new series she is starring in! Joy gives us the scoop on DIETLAND and dishes on how she was almost a library thief. You'll hear tips for making it work, not giving up and how to thrive as a dreamer. Catch the premiere of DIETLAND on AMC, June 4th at 9pm EST. Find Joy online at: https://twitter.com/JoyNash and https://www.instagram.com/therealjoynash Find Midlife Makeover online! Follow https://www.instagram.com/midlifemakeoverpodcast/ on Instagram, Twitter & Facebook! You can find Marcy on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/themarcyminute & AJ too at https://www.instagram.com/askajanything. Become a Patron by supporting us through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/midlifemakeover Email us questions and comments to midlifemakeoverpodcast@gmail.com! Please rate and review us on iTunes and Facebook!

In this episode I talk to Julie Duffy Dillon. Julie is a registered dietitian and food behavior expert who wants to help you enjoy eating again. She combines her specialized nutrition therapy with her training as a mental health counselor to promote food and body peace. Julie owns a North Carolina group nutrition therapy practice helping individuals, families, and health care providers treat and prevent disordered eating and promote positive body image. She is also the host of the weekly podcast, Love Food. You can find out more about her and ways to experience Food Peace at JulieDillonRD.com and find her on Facebook, Instagram (@FoodPeaceDietitian), and Twitter (@EatingPermitRD). Fed up with creating short-term diet plans for patients, Julie began questioning the idea of dieting altogether and decided it was time to take a different approach. This meant going against the mainstream belief that weight loss results in improved health and instead giving her clients permission to feel good in their skin just they way they are right now. Through her Health at Every Size (HAES) and weight neutral approach, Julie helps her clients experience health without dieting. About halfway through our conversation I noted that Julie was referring to some clients as a “person in a larger body” or a “person in a fat body.” Consistent with her approach, Julie believes individuals should not be defined solely by the way their body looks. In an ideal world the word “fat” would be neutral descriptor and the stigma associated with words such as “obese” and “overweight” would be nonexistent. Unfortunately, size discrimination is dominant in our culture, and the word “fat” has a negative association. But, we have the power to change how we use the word. Having fat on your body is not bad. It's not good. It's just what is. Julie emphasizes that this is not something we need to hide from our children either; your child can be fat and beautiful. Fat is not something that needs to be fixed, but rather viewed through a different lens. We need to armor our children with tools to view their body in more positive light, regardless of size, shape, or weight. Resources: Jessi's Free Intuitive Eating Audio Course (Bonus Episode)The BodyLove Project MasterClassJulie's WebsiteLove, Food PodcastSecrets of Feeding a Healthy Family by Ellyn Satter Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie OrbachDiet Land by Sarai Walker

We're back! It's episode 9 and the theme is Body Positivity, Body Image, and Body Shaming. What is it? What isn't it? Why is shaming harmful? And in light of the heinous abuse comedian Leslie Jones experienced on Twitter this past Monday -- why it's relevant. #LoveForLeslieJ Shan details Sarai Walker's novel "Dietland" and both Morg and Shan open up about their own body insecurities in this cold cruel world. Morg gives us some updates on her Single Black Female Stalker Files, the details of which inspired the name of this episode if you were wondering. This week in Hot Topics we celebrate Discovery Twitter's "Scammer Appreciation Week." No, seriously this week was full of scammin' and plottin' and receipts and unfortunately Melania Trump and Taylor Swift waited until after we recorded this Sunday to get exposed. But fret not. Morg had a song on her heart prepared and packaged for your listening pleasure regarding her fellow Pennsylvanian Taylor Swift. How Sway you ask? Either Morg's clairvoyant or Taylor never ceases to play the victim. "This is why I don't trust anyone from Allentown, PA. They're liars and scammers who live for drama." - A Wise Listener. - Black Lives Matter, police brutality, and the senseless murders of unarmed black bodies is discussed. Morg penned a heartfelt passage on Medium about it all: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/an-american-vista_us_5790df48e4b0a9208b5f22be - High Sparrow Bernie Sanders finally gives up the revolution and endorses Hillz Clinton. - The #LuxuriousRevolution will be live-tweeted and likely by Mischa Barton. On a yacht. Somewhere idyllic. - Post #Brexit United Kingdom appointed their second female Prime Minster - Theresa May, who then appointed wisp-haired Boris Johnson as their Minister of Foreign Affairs, which all means Hillary Rodham Clinton will spontaneously combust if she isn't elected POTUS come November. She deserves! - VH1's Hip Honors was beautifully curated, but Angie Stone "woke up chuckling, with very strategic persuasion" and wasn't here for any of it. - Pokemon Go has consumed Morg's life and the life of every 24-34 year old adult wholly and totally. Shan doesn't understand the hype, but is happy we're happy. And that's what you missed on Glee folks. Recorded, Sunday July 17, 2016.

Jenn and guest expert Preeti Chhibber take on kids book questions in this week's Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Dietland by Sarai Walker and Bright Cellars.

Author of fat positive and feminist novel Dietland, Sarai Walker is here to debunk everything you thought you knew about diet culture and awaiting the appearance of the "thin woman within." Getting real about the tragic and unnecessary experiences so many fat individuals are put through, Sarai wants everyone to know that life doesn't start when you lose weight. You're already living it. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sarai Walker received her MFA in creative writing from Bennington College. As a magazine writer, her articles have appeared in Seventeen and Mademoiselle. She served as an editor and writer for Our Bodies, Ourselves, before moving to London and Paris to complete a PhD. Her first novel, Dietland, was published this year, and takes on the beauty industry, gender inequality and our weight loss obsession.

Lian Dolan and Julie Dolan tackle the world one cup fo coffee at a time. On today's show, we vote on whether we'll buy and read Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman, based on reviews, the new version fo Atticus and the suspicious discovery of the manuscript in the first place.    Plus: Secrets to a Great Girls' Weekend: More Cheese!  Birthday on Facebook is the Best!  Pluto in the News! Pluto 'phones home' and the world waits to see the pictures fo the farthest thing ever seen from earth. Way to go, Science! Go Set A Watchman Reviews are in. Copies are in the bookstore. The biggest publishing happening since Harry Potter! But is it a good thing that the book surfaced 60 years after it wasn't published int he first place? We discuss.  Book Recommendations from Lian. Two books on the oppostite end of the women's fiction genre. Lian gives the thumbs to The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan and  Dietland by Sarai Walker, a subversive feminist read with a cupcake on teh cover.  Teen Athletes and Heroin Addiction: Read about the surprising connection in Sports Illustrated. Here is the link to the article.  Crime Report: El Chapo and Real Life Gone Girl  Pol, Dark and Handsome: Our weekly re-cap of the PBS Masterpiece series Poldark.This episode had it all! Pygmalion Week! Wifey talent Show! Horrendous medical care! Holiday Shopping! Pilchers! Copper! And Chest hair!   

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/wu-158-dietland-author-sarai-walker-june-28/ For a lively discussion about some deep issues, join BCB host Lyssa Danehy deHart as she interviews Sarai Walker about her debut novel, Dietland. Dietland is a bold, original, and funny debut novel that takes on the beauty industry, gender inequality, and our weight loss obsession -- from the inside out, and with fists flying. Sarai will be speaking at Eagle Harbor Books on Sunday, June 28 from 3-5 pm. In this book, which is part Fight Club, part Feminist Manifesto, the diet revolution is here -- and it's armed. Heroine Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you're fat, to be noticed is to be judged. Or mocked. Or worse. Plum is biding her time (with a job answering fan mail for a popular teen girls' magazine) until her weight-loss surgery, believing that only then can her true life as a thin person finally begin. But when a mysterious woman starts following her, Plum finds herself falling down a rabbit hole and into an underground community of women who live life on their own terms. There Plum agrees to a series of challenges that force her to deal with her past, her doubts, and the real costs of becoming "beautiful."  At the same time, a dangerous guerrilla group called "Jennifer" begins to terrorize a world that mistreats women. As Plum grapples with her personal struggles, she becomes entangled in a sinister plot, and the consequences are explosive.  Don't miss this exciting opportunity to meet and learn more about an immensely talented writer! Credits: BCB host and audio editor Lyssa Danehy DeHart; BCB social media publishers: Chris and Diane Walker.