#99: How to Fight Diet Culture & Find Fat Acceptance with Lindy West, Author of "Shrill"
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2017
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Lindy West, author of the book Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, shares how she became a fat-acceptance activist, the roles that feminism and body-positive imagery played in helping her reject diet culture, her experience of finding love in a larger body, how thin allies to the fat-acceptance movement can help, how she's improved her relationship with food and what she's still working on, and lots more!
Lindy West is a Seattle-based writer, editor, and performer whose work focuses on pop culture, social justice, humor, and body image. She’s currently a culture writer for GQ magazine and a weekly columnist at The Guardian, as well as the founder and editor of I Believe You | It’s Not Your Fault, an advice blog for teens. In 2015 she wrote and recorded a story for “This American Life” about confronting an Internet troll who impersonated her dead father and was half of the duo who initiated #shoutyourabortion, which landed her on the cover of The New York Times. She was named one of “Internet’s Most Fascinating 2015” by Cosmopolitan.com. Find her online at LindyWest.net, and pick up her book Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman wherever books are sold.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, body positivity, and health at every |
| 0:06.3 | size. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified |
| 0:11.2 | intuitive eating counselor, specializing in weight-inclusive wellness. |
| 0:15.6 | Join me as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships |
| 0:19.3 | with food. |
| 0:20.3 | Hey there, welcome to episode 99 of Food Psych. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and today I'm talking with an amazing activist and writer |
| 0:44.0 | Lindy West, author of the book, Shrill Notes from Allowed Woman, and also a regular columnist |
| 0:49.9 | in the Guardian and just a fantastic phenomenal, hilarious writer. |
| 0:53.8 | I'm so excited to have her on the podcast. |
| 0:56.2 | She's a fat acceptance activist and feminist writer who's had her own complicated journey |
| 1:01.8 | with food and her body, and we talked about body positivity and feminism, her journey |
| 1:07.1 | to accepting her body and claiming the identity of fat, what it has been like to be a fat |
| 1:13.0 | acceptance activist in diet culture, some of the responses she's gotten, and some of the |
| 1:17.4 | ways that she's learned to navigate that and where she's at now in her journey with |
| 1:21.2 | food. |
| 1:22.2 | I can't wait to share it with you in just a moment. |
| 1:24.1 | It's such a good one. |
| 1:25.6 | But first I want to share a couple of great resources for helping you make peace with food. |
| 1:29.7 | The first is brand new, and it's based on some of your feedback that people gave in the |
| 1:34.5 | Food Psych Facebook group. |
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