#100: How the Body-Positive Movement Could Do Better with Virgie Tovar, Fat-Liberation Activist
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2017
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Virgie Tovar returns for our 100th episode! The inimitable fat-acceptance activist shares what she's been up to in the 2 years since she first appeared on Food Psych (episode #45), why you can't be body-positive and actively pursue weight loss at the same time, how the history of the body-positive movement left it open for misinterpretation, why fat acceptance and body liberation are better terms for what we really want than body positivity, how people with thin privilege can help the movement for fat liberation (and how that helps *everyone*), how her relationship with sex has changed as a result of some big changes in her life, why "The American Dream" can be so oppressive and why stepping out of it has been so liberating for her, and lots more!
Virgie Tovar is an author, activist, and one of the nation's leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp, a 4-week online course designed to help those who are ready to break up with diet culture, and she started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, body positivity, and health at every |
| 0:06.2 | size. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified |
| 0:11.2 | intuitive eating counselor, specializing in weight-inclusive wellness. |
| 0:15.3 | Join me as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships |
| 0:19.3 | with food. |
| 0:21.3 | Hey there, welcome to episode 100 of Food Psych. |
| 0:39.6 | We made it! |
| 0:41.0 | Hundred episodes. |
| 0:42.0 | It's taken so long to get to this point. |
| 0:45.2 | Usually for most weekly podcasts, the 100th episode comes in the second year, but we have |
| 0:49.9 | not been weekly this entire time. |
| 0:51.6 | We've been going since 2013, but only weekly for the first year and now again. |
| 0:59.2 | So finally, we are hitting episode 100, and it's a really good one. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm so excited because Virgi Tovar is back on the podcast. |
| 1:07.4 | She was a really integral guest in changing the direction of the podcast last season when |
| 1:14.2 | I really solidified the mission of making this podcast about health at every size, and |
| 1:19.2 | fat acceptance, and weight stigma, and dismantling all of those systems, and really having this |
| 1:25.4 | be an anti-diet space more than just in eating to recovery space. |
| 1:30.8 | Virgi was the first guest I had who really spoke explicitly to the concept of fat acceptance. |
| 1:37.4 | She told her story in episode 45, and you can go back and listen to that for her typical |
| 1:42.9 | food-like episode where she talks about her relationship with food growing up. |
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