#243: The Link Between Anti-Racism Work and Ending Diet Culture with Monique Melton, Anti-Racism Educator and Author
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Anti-racism educator and author Monique Melton joins us to discuss why doing anti-racism work is a prerequisite to dismantling diet culture and other systems of oppression, the difficulty of raising Black children in our white-supremacist culture, how to move beyond performative activism and allyship, why anti-racism work is never-ending, and so much more.
Monique Melton is an anti-racism educator, published author, international speaker, and host of the Shine Brighter Together podcast. She is also the founder of Shine Brighter Together, which is a community dedicated to healthy relationships & diverse unity.
She travels the world speaking at conferences and events on topics related to anti-racism, personal growth, diversity, and relationships. She’s been published in magazines, featured in blogs and podcasts, and has touched the lives of people all over the world.
She is a natural big-bold dreamer and a deeply rooted woman of faith.
She is a proud Navy wife to her high-school sweetheart, and she is a loving mother to two little ones.
She has a BA in social science with an emphasis in sociology & psychology and two years of graduate school education in Clinical Counseling from Johns Hopkins University.
She believes it's not all about your comfort, but it's about your growth. Find her online at MoniqueMelton.com.
For full show notes and a transcript of this episode, go to christyharrison.com/243.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body |
| 0:05.6 | liberation, and taking down diet culture. I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and I'm an |
| 0:10.8 | anti-diet registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, an author of the book, |
| 0:15.9 | Anti-Diet. Join me here every week as I talk with fellow anti-diet advocates about their journeys |
| 0:21.5 | toward peace with food in their bodies. And by the way, on this show, we bleep out |
| 0:25.8 | diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, but we don't censor swear words or other |
| 0:30.7 | adult language, so listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:56.0 | Hey there, welcome to episode 243 of Food Psych. I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and today I'm |
| 1:05.0 | talking with anti-racism educator and author Monique Melton about why doing anti-racism work is a |
| 1:11.6 | prerequisite to dismantling diet culture, the difficulty of raising black children in our white |
| 1:17.5 | supremacist society, how to move beyond performative activism and allyship, why anti-racism work is never |
| 1:25.6 | ending and so much more. I can't wait to share our conversation with you in just a moment. I fast |
| 1:31.1 | track this one. We actually recorded it at the beginning of the uprising in late May, so |
| 1:36.8 | I this was the quickest I was able to get it out. We like have never released an episode this fast |
| 1:42.6 | after it was recorded, just to give you some context for where the world was when we were speaking. |
| 1:47.8 | I'm not going to be answering a listener question this week because I want to give this space |
| 1:52.0 | for my interview with Monique and all of the important things she shares, but I'll be back to |
| 1:56.8 | answering your questions in the coming weeks at some point. And if you want to submit your own |
| 2:00.8 | question for a consideration for an upcoming episode, go to KristiHarrison.com slash questions. |
| 2:07.1 | That's KristiHarrison.com slash questions. I do just want to give a little heads up for this |
| 2:12.6 | episode because I originally released it following our usual policy of bleeping out potentially |
| 2:18.8 | triggering information like weight or exercise numbers and diet advice, which we bleep in every |
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