#148: Disability and Diet Culture with Rebekah Taussig, Disability-Rights Advocate and Writer
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Disability-rights advocate and writer Rebekah Taussig joins us to talk about why body positivity needs to be a radical and intersectional movement, the connection between body acceptance and disability rights, the many ways in which diet culture has infiltrated disability culture and affects people in disabled bodies, embracing all the emotions that surface when doing anti-oppression work, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about quick ways to respond when a friend says something diet-y or body-shaming.
Rebekah Taussig is a Kansas City writer and teacher with her PhD in Creative Nonfiction and Disability Studies. She is interested in the powerful connection between the stories we tell and the world we live in, from physical spaces and economic opportunities to social roles and interpersonal relationships. Her writing contributes to the collective narratives being told about disability in our culture -- empowering, mundane, wild, heart-breaking, exhilarating, ordinary stories of her life lived through a paralyzed body. Find her online at RebekahTaussig.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my online course Intuitive Eating Fundamentals. |
| 0:05.0 | If you're ready to leave diet culture behind and reclaim the life at Stole From You, learn |
| 0:08.7 | more and sign up at christieharrison.com slash course. |
| 0:12.0 | That's christieharrison.com slash course. |
| 0:14.8 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, and taking down |
| 0:19.4 | diet culture. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm your host Christy Harrison and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian and certified |
| 0:24.5 | intuitive eating counselor, offering online courses and programs to help people all over |
| 0:28.5 | the world make peace with food. |
| 0:30.7 | Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships |
| 0:35.0 | with food and their bodies. |
| 0:36.5 | I remember I was eating, little gums bleeding, cry day evening, it was all about eating. |
| 0:45.1 | When I became a teen, it was all about beef and now I'm ready for the world. |
| 0:49.8 | Try and sink my teeth in. |
| 0:51.4 | Stacking it. |
| 0:52.4 | Hey there, welcome to episode 148 of Food Psych. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm your host Christy Harrison and today I'm talking with Rebecca Tossig, a disability |
| 0:58.8 | advocate and writer who has one of my absolute favorite Instagram accounts. |
| 1:03.1 | We get into why body positivity needs to be a radical and intersectional movement, the |
| 1:07.6 | connection between body acceptance and disability rights, the many ways in which diet culture |
| 1:12.0 | has infiltrated disability culture and affects people and disabled bodies and so much more. |
| 1:16.8 | I can't wait to share our conversation with you in just a moment. |
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