#170: How to Combat Fat Stigma with Cat Pausé, Fat-Studies Scholar
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2018
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Fat-studies scholar Cat Pausé joins us to discuss why you can’t fight “obesity” and fat stigma at the same time, the effects of stigma on health, how fat studies differs from conventional paradigms, the implications of using the word “fat,” and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about why elimination diets shouldn’t be the first line of treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
Cat Pausé, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer in Human Development at Massey University. She is lead editor of Queering Fat Embodiment (2014, Routledge), and coordinated two international conferences - Fat Studies: Reflective Intersections (2012) and Fat Studies: Identity, Agency, Embodiment (2016). Her research is focused on the effects of fat stigma on health and well-being on fat individuals and how fat activists resist the fatpocalypse. Her work has appeared in journals such as Fat Studies, Feminist Review, and Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, as well as online in the Huffington Post, The Conversation, and in her blog. Her fat-positive radio show, Friend of Marilyn, is travelling the world – make sure your city is on the tour! Find her online at about.me/FriendofMarilyn.
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| 0:33.0 | Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life |
| 0:37.0 | about their relationships with food and their bodies. |
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| 0:55.0 | Hey there, welcome to episode 170 of Food Psych. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm your host Christi Harrison and today I'm talking with Kat Paze, a fat |
| 1:02.0 | study scholar and host of the long running fat positive radio show Friend of |
| 1:06.0 | Maryland. |
| 1:07.0 | We talked about why you can't fight quote unquote obesity and fat stigma at the same |
| 1:12.0 | time. |
| 1:13.0 | The effective stigma on health, how fat studies differs from conventional academic |
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