#137: How to Navigate Diet Culture with Evette Dionne, Writer and Editor
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2018
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Writer and editor Evette Dionne joins us to talk about how to fight fatphobia and advocate for yourself in healthcare settings, how to navigate difficult conversations and challenge weight stigma in close relationships, why the body-positive movement needs to be intersectional, how oppression is learned and can be unlearned, why it’s important to acknowledge our privilege, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how to deal with friends and family who are stuck in diet culture.
Evette Dionne is a Black Feminist culture writer, editor, and scholar. Presently, she’s the senior editor at Bitch Media and regularly contributes stories about race, size, gender, and popular culture to Teen Vogue, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times, Refinery29, Harper's Bazaar, MIC, and other print and digital publications. Find her online at EvetteDionne.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my online course Intuitive Eating Fundamentals. |
| 0:05.4 | If you're ready to break free from diet culture and see what life beyond dieting looks |
| 0:09.0 | like for you, join the course and become part of a wonderful community of people who are |
| 0:13.0 | on the same journey to freedom with food and peace with their bodies. |
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| 0:53.4 | Welcome to food psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size and body liberation. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm your host christiehererson and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian and certified |
| 1:03.6 | intuitive eating counselor offering online courses and programs to help people all over |
| 1:08.1 | the world make peace with food. |
| 1:10.4 | Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships |
| 1:15.3 | with food and their bodies. |
| 1:16.8 | Hey there, welcome to episode 137 of food psych. |
| 1:35.9 | I'm your host christiehererson and I want to wish you a happy new year because this is |
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