#242: Anti-Racism Resources, and Repost of #113: How to Cultivate Radical Body Love with Sonya Renee Taylor
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Writer and activist Sonya Renee Taylor joins us to discuss why we need more radical body love in the world, how to deal with weight gain and weight stigma while learning intuitive eating, what mainstream body positivity gets wrong, why understanding oppression and intersecting identities is the key to creating a world that's *truly* body-positive, how to navigate diet culture as a body-acceptance activist, how to begin to untangle internalized oppression, and lots more. (This interview originally aired on July 17, 2017.) Plus, in a new 2020 introduction, Christy offers a list of anti-racism resources for people who are looking to learn more.
Sonya Renee Taylor is the Founder and Radical Executive Officer of The Body is Not An Apology, a digital media and education company committed to radical self-love and body empowerment as the foundational tool for social justice and global transformation. TBINAA.com reaches over 1 million people each month in 140 countries with their articles and content focused on the intersection of bodies, personal transformation and social justice. Sonya is also an International award winning Performance Poet, Activist, speaker, and transformational leader whose work continues to have global reach. She has appeared across the US, New Zealand, Australia, England, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Canada and the Netherlands. Sonya and her work has been seen, heard and read on HBO, BET, MTV, TV One, NPR, PBS, CNN, Oxygen Network, The New York Times, New York Magazine, MSNBC.com, Today.com, Huffington Post, Vogue Australia, Shape.com, Ms. Magazine and many more. She has shared stages with such luminaries as Carrie Mae Weems, Theaster Gates, Harry Belafonte, Dr. Cornell West, Hilary Rodham Clinton, the late Amiri Baraka and numerous others. Sonya continues to perform, speak and facilitate workshops globally. Find her online at sonyareneetaylor.com and thebodyisnotanapology.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, |
| 0:03.6 | health at every size, body liberation, and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm your host, Christi Harrison, and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian, |
| 0:12.5 | certified intuitive eating counselor, and author of the book, Anti-Diet. |
| 0:16.7 | Join me here every week as I talk with fellow anti-diet advocates about their |
| 0:20.9 | journeys toward peace with food in their bodies. |
| 0:23.4 | And by the way, on this show, we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and |
| 0:27.3 | calorie numbers, but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, |
| 0:31.5 | so listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:57.9 | Hey there. Welcome to Food Psych. I am Christi Harrison, and I'm recording this on June |
| 1:04.0 | 2nd of 2020, when there is a revolution happening for racial justice. And I'm so here for it, |
| 1:10.0 | because I believe that Black Lives Matter and a support justice for George Floyd and |
| 1:15.4 | Brianna Taylor and Amad Arbery and Tony McDade, and all the other Black people who've had their |
| 1:21.6 | lives taken from them over the years through the racist actions of police and vigilante |
| 1:27.2 | jolani's and this racist murder has to stop. So in honor of the movement to defend Black Lives, |
| 1:34.8 | and also in recognition of the fact that the anti-diet movement must also be an anti-racist movement, |
| 1:40.5 | because diet culture is built on a foundation of racism, as you heard in the episode with Sabrina |
| 1:46.2 | Strings that I reposted last week, this week I wanted to repost another episode with a brilliant |
| 1:52.0 | Black thinker and writer who speaks to some of the racial justice issues that are connected to this |
| 1:56.8 | anti-diet work. This interview is from three years ago in July of 2017, and it's with the amazing |
| 2:04.1 | writer and body liberation activist, Sonia Renee Taylor. Sonia has been instrumental in helping |
| 2:10.1 | make the eating disorders and body positivity space more aware of racism and its intersections |
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