#57: Overcoming Weight Stigma and Rejecting Diet Culture with Writers Ama Scriver & Kirthan Aujlay

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

Health, Food, Bodypositive, Antidiet, Recovery, Fat, Dietculture, Weight, Eating, Positivity, Intuitive, Diet, Nutrition, Psychology, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Body

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2016

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Writers Ama Scriver and Kirthan Aujlay discuss the intersections of food, fat, and feminism, why it's important to be part of a body-positive community, how to handle online trolls, how to push back against weight stigma and diet culture, and lots more!

Amanda (Ama) Scriver is a passionate storyteller, community builder, and activist based in Toronto. She is a full-time writer for several publications and used to run and manage the blog Fat Girl Food Squad. She has deep feelings for coffee, trashy reality television, and the art of drag. Find her online at AmaScriver.com.

Kirthan Aujlay is a freelance writer and the founder of Fat Death Femme, a lifestyle website that focuses on women’s issues, body positivity, death acceptance, and pop culture. Follow Fat Death Femme on Twitter at @fatdeathfemmeco and on Instagram @fatdeathfemme.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to episode 57.
0:18.2	Have a really good one in store for you today.
0:20.1	It's with the body positive writers, Amma Skriver and Kyrothon Ojle.
0:24.9	Both of them are formerly of the blog Fat Girl Foods Quad, which is on an indefinite
0:29.9	hiatus as of January of this year, but it's a fabulous blog that was running for almost
0:34.0	three years, started by Amma.
0:37.2	And it covers food, fat and feminism and has a lot of really fun writing.
0:42.0	So I definitely encourage you to check out the archives, which are still up online.
0:46.8	And then I talked to them in the episode about what they're up to now and some of the cool
0:51.4	body positive writing they're doing for other places.
0:54.6	They both have really interesting stories about what brought them to do this work.
0:58.0	So we'll hear from them about their relationships to food and lots of other stuff in just a
1:02.7	moment.
1:03.7	But first, I want to point you to a couple of great resources for helping improve your
1:07.5	relationship with food.
1:09.3	The first is my free quiz to assess your relationship with food and see how healthy it is.
1:14.5	I'll send you your results via email along with more than a dozen personalized, individualized
1:19.7	tips to help you make peace with food wherever you might fall in the spectrum right now.
1:24.6	Take the quiz and get your results today at chrisdharrison.com slash quiz.
1:29.6	That's chrisdharrison.com slash quiz.
1:32.5	The second resource I want to share is my Intuitive Eating Online course.
1:37.2	It's a 13 week program that I created to help you work through all the principles of intuitive
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