79: How Racism and Historical Trauma Manifest Themselves in Struggles with Food and Body Image

Nutrition Matters Podcast

Paige Smathers

Nutrition, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Gloria Lucas is a champion for eating disorder awareness and body positivity and the owner and founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride (NPP). NPP is not your regular body positive project. NPP is a Xicana-Brown*-Indigenous project that focuses on intersectional body positivity, eating disorders awareness, and cultural affirmation. NPP was started in 2014 by Gloria in Southern California with the goal of relating historical trauma, social oppression, and eating disorders. NPP believes that racism, colonialism, ableism, homophobia, (etc.,) are all factors that lead to violent relationships with food and the phenomenon of destitute body image in communities of color. NPP offers education, social media content, support groups, and an Etsy store.

In this episode, Gloria and I discuss: the racism that runs through the body positive movement, the issues women of color experience that can contribute to struggles with food and body image and how people in other groups can support the work that women are already doing to help women find peace with food and their bodies.

*In this context, Brown refers to the mixed descendants of the indigenous from (what is known today as) America.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Gloria on Instagram: Nalgona Positivity Pride
Support Gloria's work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nalgonapositivitypride
Gloria's Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NalgonaPositiveShop
A Hunger So Wide and So Deep by Becky Thompson

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1:02.4	Hi, everyone. This is Paige Smathers and welcome back to another episode of Nutrition Matters podcast.
1:08.5	I am a little bit beside myself with how excited and pumped I am to share this
1:15.1	episode with you. This interview I did with Gloria Lucas was honestly like life-changing for me.
1:25.3	She speaks truth and she isn't afraid to just just tell it like it is. And I really,
1:34.6	really love talking with her and I really appreciated hearing her voice in regards to her own
1:41.7	experience with a eating disorder in a brown body.
1:47.0	Today's episode, we really talk about a lot of really heavy issues, like racism and systemic oppression and historical trauma.
1:57.0	And I just want you to know, before you listen to the whole episode, this will probably
2:01.5	make you uncomfortable. This will probably kind of give you a little bit of feelings of,
2:09.0	oh, this is too hard, this is too painful, or no way, they're crazy, this isn't my experience,
2:15.1	whatever it might be, you might have some denial be you might have some denial you might have some
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