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Dear Readers,They say in schools, February's no joke. Alongside my colleagues, I've certainly been putting in the hours in order to serve our students the best we can. But there's always still reading to be done — not only for this newsletter and our reading community, but also for my own self-care. It makes me happy that I keep getting to do this, week after week. Thank you for reading and supporting Article Club.I have a feeling you're going to like this week's issue. Instead of the regular offering (i.e., four articles), I'm switching things up and sharing with you some great writing and thinking from a variety of genres. Scroll down and you'll find:* an essay about racial appropriation and the end of an interracial friendship* an interview with Susan Dominus about IVF and her article, “Someone Else's Daughter”* an article about the care a park ranger takes in order to support unhoused people in Golden Gate Park* a podcast episode about how young people definitely don't think using generative AI is cheatingAlso, don't miss our pet photo, as well as our poll toward the end. Hope you enjoy.If you like what we're doing here at Article Club, and want to support this venture with a paid subscription, I would be very grateful. It's $5 a month or $36 a year.1️⃣ Dear White SisterI appreciate the work of Tressie McMillan Cottom, so when she recommended Don't Let It Get You Down, a collection of essays by UC Berkeley Law professor Savala Nolan, I knew I needed to check it out. I was not disappointed. As the book's subtitle makes clear, Prof. Nolan writes plainly and thoughtfully about race, gender, and the body. In the chapter, “Dear White Sister,” Prof. Nolan decides whether to approach a close and long-time white friend after an objectionable post on Instagram. In short, the friend quotes Beyoncé's song “Freedom” to celebrate her love for roller skating and progress in roller derby.Prof. Nolan writes: “I feel a peculiar sensation when white people borrow — take — something Black: it's like there's an octopus in my chest, peacefully afloat, when danger suddenly appears. The animal contracts its jellied body and expels a gush of protective ink, then darts away in panic. Don't belittle ‘Freedom,' I hissed inside. ‘Freedom' isn't for a white girl in the Midwest taking up roller derby.”By Savala Nolan • Don't Let It Get You Down • 25 min2️⃣  An Interview With Susan Dominus: “I was just so inspired by the goodness of the people involved.”Many of you read and appreciated January's article of the month, ”Someone Else's Daughter,” by Susan Dominus, which told the story of a horrible IVF mistake that resulted in two women giving birth to the other woman's genetic baby. More importantly, the piece illuminates the generosity of the human spirit, as the mothers, filled with grief and shame for an error they didn't make, embrace each other and figure out a way to raise their children together.I got to interview Ms. Dominus a few weeks back, and hope you take a listen. Over and over again in our conversation, she shared how reporting and writing the piece left her inspired and hopeful. Here's an excerpt: I would say the main thing that I really did want people to feel reading the piece was that same inspired feeling I felt in hearing their stories — that there is always a way, not always, but that when there is conflict or crisis, if you respond with openness and generosity, sometimes beautiful things come of that. That's what I took away as a human being, just being part of it. I was so inspired by the goodness of the people involved and the way that their goodness allowed them to turn something awful into something really beautiful.➡️ Listen to the interview by clicking the play button below.3️⃣ Her Job Is To Remove Homeless People From SF's Parks. Her Methods Are Extraordinary.It's easy to bewail the rise and intractability of homelessness. It's much harder to do something about it. That's why I appreciated reading this article about the efforts of Amanda Barrows, a park ranger for San Francisco Recreation and Parks. In 2015, the government agency launched a new program designed to connect unhoused people with the services they need. Since Ms. Barrows joined the force in 2021, she has helped 60 people leave Golden Gate Park and accept more permanent housing.Reporter Susan Freinkel does an excellent job following Ms. Barrows as she builds relationships with her clients, earns their trust, and listens to what they need. Having grown up in public housing, having lived in a “dodgy SRO” for five years, and having lost her father to a fentanyl overdose, Ms. Barrows says that her work feels natural. “I can relate to a lot of the people who I contact through my own lived experience.”By Susan Freinkel • The San Francisco Standard • 16 min • Gift Link4️⃣ Playboi Farti And His AI Homework MachineIn case there's any doubt: How teenagers think about using generative artificial intelligence in school is very different from how most educators think about it. In essence, we think it's cheating (or plagiarism, or whatever big word we want to use), and they don't. To them, ChatGPT is like a word calculator. Why slog away at a boring five-paragraph essay about The Great Gatsby that's been done millions of times when a robot can do you it for you?That's the essential question of this podcast episode, in which host PJ Vogt tests a theory he holds — that writing is more than answering a teacher's prompt, and that generative AI is more than just a labor-saving tool. It's thinking, he argues, and if we give away thinking to a computer, then our humanity is doomed.By PJ Vogt • Search Engine • 61 min • Apple Podcasts✅ It's time for a quick poll. I'd love to hear from you.Last week, we confirmed that there's no widespread conspiracy to keep this newsletter out of your inbox. Delivery is working well most of the time.But what about your reading habits? Do you focus on the current week's issue? 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On a revisited conversation -- one that left a lasting impact on me -- the incredible Savala Nolan joins us to talk about belonging versus conforming, understanding the body as our home, and how to walk away from a lifetime of disordered eating. Savala is warm, funny, kind, smart as hell, and she will blow your mind open when she explains really hard, complex, and nuanced topics. I felt so at home speaking with her, and I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did. Our conversation covers… Growing up with many dualities of race, body size, and class Being put on a diet starting at age 4 Rebelling and conforming Our mothers, their diets, and our dieting The bond of dieting Our body as our home Unlearning the language of diet culture Quitting diets not being a choice for some The body being inescapable The cake we all need to have, and eat too   About Savala: Savala Nolan is the author of the critically acclaimed Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race Gender and the Body.  Her writing has been featured in Vogue, The New York Times Book Review,  NPR, Time, Harper's Magazine, and more. She holds a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where she lectures on identity and law and directs the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice.  Her second essay collection, Good Woman, is forthcoming from HarperCollins. Find Savala on IG: @notquitebeyonce   Enjoying this podcast? Please support the show on Patreon for bonus episodes, community engagement, and access to "Ask Abbie" at Patreon.com/fullplate You can find episode transcripts (which are publicly available to everyone, not just our patrons!) on Abbie's website: www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/podcast Find the show on Instagram: @fullplate.podcast Find Abbie on Instagram: @abbieattwoodwellness Group Counseling: Looking for more support and concrete steps to take to heal your relationship with food and your body? Apply for Abbie's next 10-week group program: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching Group Membership: Already been at this anti-diet culture thing for a while, but want community and continued learning? Apply for Abbie's monthly membership: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-group Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy Podcast Editing by Brian Walters This podcast is ad-free and support comes from our Patrons on Patreon: Patreon.com/fullplate  

The incredible Savala Nolan joins us on this week's episode of the Full Plate podcast to talk about belonging versus conforming, understanding the body as our home, and how to walk away from a lifetime of disordered eating. I recorded this conversation while I was on my August hiatus from the pod, so I actually got the chance to listen back to the episode and it hit me even harder the second time around. Savala is warm, funny, kind, smart as hell, and she will blow your mind open when she explains really hard, complex, and nuanced topics. I felt so at home speaking with her, and I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did. Our conversation covers… Growing up with many dualities of race, body size, and class Being put on a diet starting at age 4 Rebelling and conforming Our mothers, their diets, and our dieting The bond of dieting Our body as our home Unlearning the language of diet culture Quitting diets not being a choice for some The body is inescapable The cake we all need to have, and eat too Savala Nolan is the author of the critically acclaimed Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race Gender and the Body.  Her writing has been featured in Vogue, The New York Times Book Review,  NPR, Time, Harper's Magazine, and more. She holds a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where she lectures on identity and law and directs the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice.  Her second essay collection, Good Woman, is forthcoming from HarperCollins.   Enjoying this podcast? Please support the show on Patreon for bonus episodes, community engagement, and access to "Ask Abbie" at Patreon.com/fullplate   Patreon is also home to the episode transcripts (which are publicly available to everyone, not just our patrons!). If you're looking for those, head over to Patreon.    Find the show on Instagram: @fullplate.podcast Find Abbie on Instagram: @abbieattwoodwellness   Looking for more support and concrete steps to take to heal your relationship with food and your body? Apply for Abbie's next 10-week group program: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching   Already been at this anti-diet culture thing for a while, but want community and continued learning? Apply for Abbie's monthly membership: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-group    Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy Podcast Editing by Brian Walters This podcast is ad-free and support comes from our Patrons on Patreon: Patreon.com/fullplate

In this episode of Be the Change, host Savala Nolan, director of Berkeley Law's Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, interviews Purvi Shah.Shah is the founder and executive director of Movement Law Lab and a civil rights litigator, policy advocate and law professor who has spent over a decade working at the intersection of law and grassroots social movements.During their conversation, they talk about the nuts and bolts of founding a legal nonprofit in response to current events, and the intellectual and philosophical theory behind “movement lawyering,” a type of lawyering that aims to support and foment lasting social change."It's not that we have to have all of this stuff, all of these virtues amassed, before we can engage in the work," Nolan says. "Doing the work actually helps us amass what we need in order to do it better.""That, to me, is one of the biggest beauties of being in social justice work: If you're doing it right, all you have to do is show up and be persistent and committed and have your words, like what you say you're going to do, actually be what you do," says Shah. "But the work over the years will transform you. It will teach you. And that hope and that imagination, that sense of it's possible, I think that's such a powerful thing."Shah and Nolan also talk about when it might be a good thing to loosen your grip on your power, how confidence is a process, and moments that give you chills — in a good way — as a lawyer.This is the last episode of season two of Be the Change, a collaboration between UC Berkeley's Office of Communications and Public Affairs and Berkeley Law. In the series, Nolan interviews changemakers who embody the transformation they want to see in the world. You can find all episodes on the Berkeley Voices podcast.Listen to the episode and read a transcript on Berkeley News (news.berkeley.edu).Photo courtesy of Purvi Shah; UC Berkeley design by Neil Freese. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Be the Change, host Savala Nolan, director of Berkeley Law's Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, interviews Nazune Menka.Menka is a lecturer at Berkeley Law and a supervising attorney for the campus's Environmental Law Clinic. She is Denaakk'e from Alaska and Lumbee from North Carolina. In fall 2021, Menka designed and taught a new undergraduate legal studies course called Decolonizing UC Berkeley, and she taught Indigenous Peoples, Law and the United States at the law school in spring 2022.During their conversation, they talk about how to bring a decolonial lens to education, and about the joys and challenges of being a trailblazer who is pushing against the inherited wisdom and mythology surrounding UC Berkeley — "a place we love deeply and, therefore, as James Baldwin said, claim the right to criticize and to call to higher levels of intellectual and moral honesty," Nolan says."This can be a unique space, right?" Menka says. "The university — it is a place of power. I know that. It's important that we are able to understand that if you have a voice, if you are in the room, you should use it."They also get into how instinct can be a particularly powerful gift when you're part of a subordinated community, and storytelling as a portal to individual and communal healing.Season two of Be the Change is a collaboration between Berkeley Law and Berkeley News. In the series, Nolan interviews three changemakers who embody the transformation they want to see in the world. New episodes will come out every week on Wednesday as a special series on the Berkeley Voices podcast.Listen to the episode and read a transcript on Berkeley News.Photo by Brittany Hosea-Small; UC Berkeley design by Neil Freese. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Embodying the change you want to see in the world can feel ... well, intimidating. Impossible, even. But Berkeley Law's Savala Nolan wants to help us all figure it out — one step at a time — in her podcast, Be the Change. "We're talking about transforming the world and being the change and these very lofty concepts," says Nolan, director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice. "But I hope what they see is that big, lofty concepts really contain lots of little, teeny, tiny steps that are repeated and built upon over time."In season two of Be the Change, a collaboration between Berkeley Law and Berkeley News, Nolan interviews three changemakers who have started something that wasn't there before, and that makes the world a better place. "I wanted to contribute something to the community that would help folks really be brave," says Nolan, "and think about their lives and their gifts and their work as things that are full of possibility and as things that are potentially really, really expansive and transformative."New episodes come out every week on Wednesday. Savala's next interview is with Khiara M. Bridges, a professor at UC Berkeley's School of Law and a powerful public intellectual who speaks and writes about race, class, reproductive justice and the intersection of the three.Listen to the episode and read a transcript on news.berkeley.edu.UC Berkeley photo design by Neil Freese; photo courtesy of Savala Nolan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Savala Nolan is a lawyer, writer, and professor at UC Berkeley School of Law. She is the author of Don't Let it Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender and the Body, and her writing has been featured in Vogue, Time, the Huffington Post, Shape, and Harper's Magazine. She is also the Executive Director for the Thelton E. Henderson Centre for Social Justice at UC Berkeley.In this episode, Dana and Elizabeth talk with Savala about her book, which is based on her personal experiences with race, gender, and body size. Our conversation covers a lot of ground, including interracial friendships, intersectional identities, and the cumulative impact of diet culture. Savala also shares her ideas on how schools can be more inclusive places for students, and thanks a special teacher in her life. This episode is part of our weight-neutral wellbeing mini-series. Full show notes can be found at www.teacherfanclub.com/podcast

Oh boy is this discussion juicy!  You remember my chat with Chavonne McClay about Savala Nolan's book Don't Let It Get You Down?  Well, my guest this week is Chavonne's cohost on their podcast, Embodiment for the Rest of Us.  Meet Jenn Jackson!  I am delighted to be chatting to her about Leah Vernon's book Unashamed and boy do we dig deeply into the meaning of that word!  We also talk about a bunch of other things, including:Jenn's body justice and fat liberation journeyDiscussing emodimentPlaying the comparison game and finding the space of frictionlessnessWhat does it mean to be unashamed?The difference between being unashamed and being vulnerableHow Jenn relates to the word unashamedLeah's intersectionsHandling the binaryHow this is different than other autobiographiesWhy representation is importantKeep reading everyone!Jenn's LinksJenn's websiteEmbodiment for the Rest of Us PodcastFat Girl Book Club LinksI Wish I Were Me Website/ Your Better Body Image ChecklistFat Girl Book Club PatreonFat Girl Book Club InstagramBook RecommendationsIn the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor MateBelly of the Beast by Da'shaun Harrison

Episode 4 of Fat Theory Book Club has been postponed until next month. Savala Nolan asked to reschedule their episode. We will be reading Revenge Body by Caleb Luna next and they are going to be our next guest. Talk then.

Content warning: In this episode, we're going to be discussing eating disorders and diets. There's also a brief mention of sexual assault. If those aren't topics you're ready to listen to, skip this one and come back.Speaker, lawyer and writer Savala Nolan was put on her first diet at four years old. That means someone who thought they were protecting her from the world instead taught her that the world would not be friendly to her body. That's an idea that so many human beings internalize early in life - kids are smart and they're always watching.She shared a look at some of the ways she tried to change her her body and shame her body into submission in an early version of an essay that ended up in her book Don't Let It Get You Down.We're wrapping up our month-long deep dive into diet culture on our podcast #WeGotGoals with a conversation featuring Savala Nolan. In her book, she shares perspectives on intersectionality as a woman who has a mixed-race identity, who came from poverty, but also experienced wealth, who has lived in both a thin body and a fat body. And she shares openly the ways that the prism of identity shapes and shades the world and how she's learned from dating, working, going through a traumatic labor and delivery, and raising a daughter. And she shares how she inevitably quit dieting too.This interview with Nolan represents a point that's important to make in a conversation about diet culture: that the driving force behind diet culture is fatphobia, and, as Nolan argues with solid historical evidence in a piece for Health, fatphobia is rooted in racism.That theme also shines through in her book, which I ready from cover-to-cover over a weekend. Three essays in particular speak to diet culture in Don't Let It Get You Down, titled "The Body Endures," "Fat in Ways White Girls Don't Understand," and "Little Satin Bomber Jacket."The book and our interview get into topics on poverty, race, diet-culture and fatphobia and if my hearty recommendation of the book isn't enough, you don't have to take my word for it.The New York Times Book Review calls it “[A] standout collection...a brutal, beautifully rendered narrative.” The San Francisco Chronicle said is "[Written with] unflinching honesty that is both revelatory and unsettling” “A vibrant and thoughtful collection.” —Roxane GayResources: Buy her book Don't Let It Get You Down wherever you get your booksUse this handy discussion guide for the book Don't Let It Get You DownSavala mentions this importance of the social determinants of health, here's a look at thoseWe discuss the difference between body neutrality and body positivityReady the piece in Health we discussed, "The reason my disordered eating went unnoticed by almost everyone"This piece in Vogue appears in the book as well, with a few additional details as Savala gained access to archives "Say Their Names: Breonna Taylor, My Great-Great-Grandmother, and Me"This piece in TIME also appears in the book and is deeply sad, "My Father's Life Was Shaped by Racism. So Was His Death"Other episodes in this deep dive on Diet Culture: Dr. Lindo Bacon shares the research that led to Heath At Every SizeJudith Matz explains more on the psychology of your body on a dietDr. Alexis Conason on living diet-freeSome FAQsWhat's a diet? Any time you make a change in how you eat for the purpose of weight loss.What is diet culture? A belief that thinness is a moral virtue and thinness is health. Therefore, it's worth doing anything to achieve that status and when you get to that status, you'll be happier and healthier.What exactly is obesity? And should you use that word when talking about someone else's weight? In short, it's complicated, based on the BMI *which has its own problems* and no. Here's more research on the words we use and weight stigma.Why did we choose to use the word “fat”? The word fat is being reclaimed by many – especially those within the fat acceptance movement. To some, this word is loaded and will remain loaded; we want to honor that and we understand that. If we could address everyone on a 1:1 basis, we would use your words of choice (like Dr. Conason talks through). More on the word fat.

Every year I pick my favourite books of the year in November.  I know I'm early into this year but I just know this book, Don't Let it Get You Down by Savala Nolan, is going to be on my list at the end of the year.  Three reasons why this book is so incredibly magnificent:Savala Nolan's story is powerful.  She is a mixed race woman who dives deep into her own intersections and how they have impacted her journey.Structurally this book is amazing.  Each essay takes the reader through Savala's thoughts while also directing them on a path to their own reflections and revelationsThe writing is spectacularly beautiful.  I mean jaw-dropping at times.Because of these things, I was so glad my guest Chavonne McClay decided to talk to me about this book.  I was just glad to get so many of my emotions and reflections out and I was equally excited about hearing her thoughts about this deeply moving memoir.  Here are a few of the things we discussed:Chavonne's body liberation journeyHow Chavonne found intuitive eatingWhy she picked this bookOverall thoughts about this bookThe essay that made her feel the most uncomfortable and whyChavonne talks about how she has (at times) liked and embraced the Mammy role.  Was that a choice?How Chavonne and her co-host talk to one another to create a safe spacesThe phrase "don't let it get you down" and how I missed the pointBlack joyThe theme of inbetweenessHow media affects our perception of violence against womenFatness in the book or a discussion about side boobs, muffin tops and embodimentKeep reading everyone!Chavonne's LinksEmbodiment for the Rest of Us websiteEmbodiment for the Rest of Us Instagram and TwitterChavonne's IGFat Girl Book Club LinksWebsiteFB groupPatreon pageInstagramBook RecommendationsBelly of the Beast by Da'Shaun L. HarrisonFearing the Black Body by Sabrina StringsHeavy by Kiese LaymonHunger by Roxane GayOther mentionsJames Baldwin quote: "To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time"Unsolicited Fatties Talk Back podcastGood Ancestors podcast

My guest is Savala Nolan, author of DON'T LET IT GET YOU DOWN a  provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces—between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat.  She knows what it means to live in the in-between. Descended from a Black and Mexican father and a white mother, Nolan's mixed-race identity is obvious, for better and worse.Savala Nolan is a writer, speaker, lawyer, and executive director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

In Episode 69, Call Number with American Libraries looks back on interviews—with authors and ALA conference speakers—conducted by American Libraries staffers during 2021. Featured in this episode are never-before-released clips from conversations with Fox Sports analyst and former NFL linebacker Emmanuel Acho; acclaimed writer Isabel Allende; reggae musician and philanthropist Ziggy Marley; TV host and producer Padma Lakshmi; bestselling horror author Max Brooks; Dance Theatre of Harlem alumni Judy Tyrus and Paul Novosel; and lawyer and speaker Savala Nolan.

In episode 130 of Berkeley Talks, Eva Paterson, president and co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, talks in 2017 with Savala Nolan (then Savala Trepczynski), director of Berkeley Law's Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, about when Paterson first realized the need for social justice, litigating implicit bias and why she loves — and hates — America. This conversation first appeared on Nolan's 2017 summer podcast series, Be the Change.Berkeley Talks is going on winter break. We'll be back with new episodes on Jan. 14, 2022.Listen to the episode and read a transcript on Berkeley News. (This page will go live Friday afternoon.)(The Atlantic photo by Edwin Tse) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kelly has a provocative conversation with writer, speaker and lawyer Savala Nolan, whose new book is called Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender and the Body.

Lawyer, professor, and writer Savala Nolan joins Zibby to discuss her debut essay collection, Don't Let It Get You Down, which covers the topics of race, gender, and our bodies. Savala reflects on the different iterations her relationship with her mother has gone through and shares where they are today. The two also talk about how Savala began writing as a way to find her place in a world where she doesn't fit in seamlessly, and how it has also allowed her to process experiences that would have otherwise festered inside of her.Purchase on Amazon or Bookshop.Amazon: https://amzn.to/3neOuBpBookshop: https://bit.ly/3neQFVB See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, I speak with writer, speaker, and lawyer, Savala Nolan.Savala Nolan is a writer, speaker, and lawyer. Her first book, Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender and the Body is our Good Ancestor Book Club selection for the month of October 2021. Savala is executive director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. She and her writing have been featured in Vogue, Time, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, the Boston Globe, and more. She served as an advisor on the Peabody–winning podcast, The Promise. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.Don't Let It Get You Down is a powerful collection of 12 memoiristic essays - lyrical and magnetic in their cadence - that offer poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces—between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat.Content warning: in the opening of this conversation, Savala shares her connection to her second great grandmother who was murdered at the hands of racist vigilantes in the 1890s.

In our final episode of Season Two, we had to “end” it just right, by doing what we do best— looking back at it (aye!) — so we're backing thangs up with a conversation on booty. That's right: Tracy and Josh are investigating the history and trends around round, plump posteriors, butts, dumps and humps. They invite writer and podcaster Nichole Perkins to help define terminology around Black women and girls' bodies and sexual agency. We learn from author, professor and speaker Savala Nolan, who teaches us about the body as a site for learning. Finally, we witness wisdom in action, as we hear from Civil Rights activist, educator, poet and writer Nikki Giovanni, who shares her own body journey and some affirmations that we could all live by. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

***Content Note*** this episode includes discussions of sexual assault, murder, and violence — including specifically fatphobic violence, anti-Black racism, and violence against indigenous peoples.In this episode, we're covering Law & Order Special Victims Unit with special guests Savala Nolan and Sydney SkyWrite a Love Letter to the Fatmily! / crushingcolonialism.org/donate Click here for the full shownotes for today's episode See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Savala Nolan is a writer, speaker, and lawyer. She is executive director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. She and her writing have been featured in Vogue, Time, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and more. She served as an advisor on the Peabody–winning podcast, The Promise. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family. Her book Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body. is a powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces—between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat.

In her debut memoir, "Don't Let it Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body," Savala Nolan's 12 deeply personal essays probe unsettled territory in her own life. Nolan tackles motherhood, sex, and feelings of otherness from the perspective of a self-described big-bodied mixed-race woman. One essay recounts her persistent prenatal pain that was ignored by her white physicians despite multiple emergency room visits. The author and director of the Center for Social Justice at the University of California, Berkeley, joins us to share her observations about the way our culture treats Black women.

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Savala Nolan's social justice work is critical to changing our world. She is the executive Director of the Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law and author of the recently published book Don't Let it Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body. In this show, she gets personal about her recovery from extreme dieting, overexercising, and self-loathing and why systems of oppression encourage us to see the "problem" as within ourselves.

If “caught in the middle” was a tightrope, Savala Nolan would be a well-seasoned expert at walking it. The lawyer, speaker, and author has learned to navigate the tedious limbo that is being mixed-race, changing economic status, and a fluctuating body painfully affected by diet culture. In her debut book, Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body, Nolan shares nostalgic, sometimes painful anecdotes from her life that illustrate the resilience and lessons learned from a life lived not in black nor white but in that somewhere in-between. Twelve poignant reflections unravel how injustice lurks around every corner and has done so for generations. But, with such wrong-doing, so too grows defiance, justice, and people like Savala Nolan who relentlessly resist by living with authenticity. Now in her fifth year at the Henderson Center for Social Justice, Nolan holds the title of executive director. She teaches law students and activists about the paramount topics of implicit bias and systemic racism—guiding the minds of tomorrow on how to mend the cracks in our system. At INFORUM, we will become Savala Nolan's students, learning what authenticity looks like when existing between two distant opposites—many times over. SPEAKERS Savala Nolan Writer; Executive Director, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, University of California, Berkeley; Author, Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body Christy Harrison MPH, RD, CEDRD, Host, "Food Psych" Podcast; Author, Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating—Moderator Note: This program contains EXPLICIT language In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on July 29th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If “caught in the middle” was a tightrope, Savala Nolan would be a well-seasoned expert at walking it. The lawyer, speaker, and author has learned to navigate the tedious limbo that is being mixed-race, changing economic status, and a fluctuating body painfully affected by diet culture. In her debut book, Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body, Nolan shares nostalgic, sometimes painful anecdotes from her life that illustrate the resilience and lessons learned from a life lived not in black nor white but in that somewhere in-between. Twelve poignant reflections unravel how injustice lurks around every corner and has done so for generations. But, with such wrong-doing, so too grows defiance, justice, and people like Savala Nolan who relentlessly resist by living with authenticity. Now in her fifth year at the Henderson Center for Social Justice, Nolan holds the title of executive director. She teaches law students and activists about the paramount topics of implicit bias and systemic racism—guiding the minds of tomorrow on how to mend the cracks in our system. At INFORUM, we will become Savala Nolan's students, learning what authenticity looks like when existing between two distant opposites—many times over. SPEAKERS Savala Nolan Writer; Executive Director, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, University of California, Berkeley; Author, Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body Christy Harrison MPH, RD, CEDRD, Host, "Food Psych" Podcast; Author, Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating—Moderator Note: This program contains EXPLICIT language In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on July 29th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this interview, Savala Nolan, executive director of Berkeley's social justice center, talks about the "deeply corporeal nature" of her new memoir, Don't Let It Get You Down. "The body is where it all happens," she says. "It's where we experience life. It's where we experience the world — the joys and the frictions. It's where we experience the categories and the divisions in the world. They're very often about our bodies and how other people see our bodies. And so, I think that our bodies become, over time, the site of so much knowledge and epiphany and humor and insight and also lies — we all probably believe lies about our bodies." Listen to the episode and read the transcript on Berkeley News. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Savala Nolan's social justice work is critical to changing our world. She is the executive Director of the Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law and author of the recently published book Don't Let it Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body. In this show, she gets personal about her recovery from extreme dieting, overexercising, and self-loathing and why systems of oppression encourage us to see the "problem" as within ourselves. "As a woman, as a fat person, as a woman of color, who's black, you know, every system I interact with is liable to have biases operating within it that disfavor those parts of who I am." -Savala Nolan

I'm interviewing Savala Nolan, author of Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body. We're talking about Savala's story of growing up Black, Mexican, and white, and thin and fat, how she navigated these intersections, and always feeling like she was “in-between.” We also talk about how our culture glorifies violence against women, how she's trying to teach her daughter about race and gender, and what it was like to discover her lineage and ties to chattel slavery. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/201 In this episode, we chat about: - What inspired Savala to write her book: Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body, - How dieting can be passed down through generations, - How letting go of fitting in to one of the categories that our culture has built can allow you to come home to yourself, - Her experience learning about her family history and the challenging feelings that came out of it, - That when you have a body that is fundamentally marginalized by your community, whatever privilege you can eke out is not as strong as it would be for someone who is not in a marginalized body, - How Savala is teaching her daughter about her identity and her body, Plus so much more! Get the shownotes:  summerinnanen.com/201