#156: Breaking Free from Diet Culture with Joy Cox, Fat-Liberation Researcher
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2018
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Researcher and activist Joy Cox joins us to talk about how we can fight back against internalized weight stigma and body shame, how intersecting identities can affect body image, why refusing to conform to cultural and societal expectations can help change the world, the racist roots of diet culture and why fighting it is an important part of creating a more inclusive society, the problems with framing larger body size as “obesity” and labeling it a disease, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about intuitive eating for athletes.
Joy is current doctoral candidate and self-professed fatty in the Department of Communication at Rutgers University using her dissertation to study the impacts of identity and social change within the Fat Liberation Movement. Through interviews and content analysis, Joy has been able to unearth answers to questions around member identification, micro and macro discourse, and political action outcomes for movement members. When not conducting research, Joy serves as the Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion team for ASDAH, and hosts her own podcast, Fresh Out the Cocoon, which highlights the lived experiences of Black fat women. She is an avid lover of justice and a fierce defender of those who cannot defend themselves. Find her on Instagram @FreshOutTheCocoon
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my intuitive eating online course and community. |
| 0:04.3 | If you're ready to leave diet culture behind and reclaim the life it stole from you, |
| 0:08.0 | learn more and sign up at christieharrison.com slash course. That's christieharrison.com slash course. |
| 0:14.4 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health and every size, body liberation, |
| 0:19.6 | and taking down diet culture. I'm your host Christy Harrison and I'm an anti-diet registered |
| 0:24.4 | dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor offering online courses and programs to help people |
| 0:29.3 | all over the world make peace with food. Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people |
| 0:34.1 | from all walks of life about their relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 0:53.7 | Hey there, welcome to episode 156 of Food Psych. I'm your host Christy Harrison |
| 0:59.2 | and today I'm talking with Joy Cox, an activist and researcher who studies the fat liberation |
| 1:03.8 | movement. We talked about how we can fight back against internalized weight stigma and body |
| 1:08.3 | shame. Why refusing to conform to cultural and societal expectations can help change the world. |
| 1:14.0 | The racist roots of diet culture and why fighting it is an important part of creating a more |
| 1:18.4 | inclusive society. The problems with framing larger body size as quote unquote obesity and |
| 1:24.0 | labeling it as a disease and so much more. It's a really wonderful episode. I can't wait to share |
| 1:29.2 | our conversation with you in just a moment but first just a quick reminder that next week I'm going |
| 1:33.2 | away on my honeymoon. So we'll be rerunning a couple of our most loved shows from the archives |
| 1:38.2 | while I'm gone. I know a lot of people say that they listen to episodes multiple times. People |
| 1:42.8 | have told me they listen to them like three or four times sometimes to let the info sink in. |
| 1:47.4 | So if you're one of those folks you can take advantage of this time to refresh on some of the |
| 1:51.0 | really juicy episodes or you can catch up on episodes you might have missed the first time around |
| 1:56.0 | because they know we've had a lot of new listeners than some of these aired so sometimes people |
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