#200: How Diet Culture Harms the Gay Community with Jeff Iovannone, Gender-Studies Scholar and LGBTQ Activist
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Activist and scholar Jeff Iovannone joins us to discuss diet culture and harmful body standards in the gay community, how oppression and the AIDS crisis shaped the “normate gay” aesthetic, why every body is a Pride body, how to create a gay men’s body-liberation movement, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about fatphobia in eating-disorder treatment programs.
Jeff Iovannone is an activist-scholar, writer, and researcher from Buffalo, New York who specializes in gender and LGBTQ studies. He is the creator of the blog Queer History for the People, writes a bi-weekly column--entitled Talk Queerly--on LGBTQ culture and politics for the web magazine Th-Ink Queerly, and is a founding member of Body Liberated Buffalo, a volunteer-run activist and advocacy organization that works for body liberation in Western New York. Find him online at medium.com/@jeffry.iovannone.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my forthcoming book, Anti-Diet, |
| 0:04.0 | Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating. |
| 0:08.4 | Learn more and pre-order now at christiharrison.com slashbook. |
| 0:12.5 | That's christiharrison.com slashbook. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, |
| 0:20.0 | body liberation, and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm your host, Christi Harrison, and I'm an Anti-Diet Registered Dietitian, |
| 0:27.2 | Certified Intuitive Eating Countsler, and author of the book Anti-Diet. |
| 0:31.4 | Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life |
| 0:35.2 | about their relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 0:57.6 | Food School. |
| 1:03.6 | Hey there, welcome to episode 200 of Food Psych. |
| 1:07.1 | I can't believe I'm saying that number. |
| 1:08.7 | 200 episodes is a big milestone, and we have a great episode for you today to celebrate. |
| 1:14.8 | So I actually had a different episode scheduled to run for this episode, |
| 1:19.2 | and then I talked with Jeff Yevanoni during Pride Month, early in June, |
| 1:24.1 | and realized that we absolutely have to run this episode for Pride because it is so good, |
| 1:29.2 | and because he has such brilliant points to make about how diet culture shows up in the gay community, |
| 1:34.2 | and how to fight back how the gay community can go about creating its own body liberation movement, |
| 1:39.8 | and why that's so important. |
| 1:41.6 | We also talk about harmful body standards in the gay community and the way the wellness |
| 1:45.8 | diet shows up in this community now, how oppression and the AIDS crisis shaped what Jeff calls the |
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