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She's All Fat: A Fat Positive Podcast

Crushing Colonialism with Jen Deerinwater

She's All Fat: A Fat Positive Podcast

Sophie Carter-Kahn & April K. Quioh

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Tv & Film

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

***Content Note*** this episode contains reference to/description of settler colonialism, genocide, forced displacement, and violence against indigenous folks.


In this episode, we’re joined by Jen Deerinwater; activist, journalist, citizen of the Cherokee nation of Oklahoma, to talk about Crushing Colonialism.


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0:00.0

I'm Sophie, I'm Yelly, and this is She's All Fat, the podcast for fat positivity, radical

0:29.4

self love and chill vibes only. Now in our final season, in this episode, we're covering

0:35.6

land and body sovereignty and crushing colonialism with Jen Deer and Water. It's an excellent

0:42.0

interview because Jen is so smart and intersectional in her work, and for non-native listeners,

0:47.4

this is a good primer on how fat justice and indigenous justice are connected.

0:51.8

For our indigenous listeners and other BIPOC folks, there's stuff for you here too, but

0:56.4

we'd like to offer a content note for settler colonialism, genocide, forced displacement,

1:02.1

and violence against indigenous folks. If that doesn't seem like content you want to engage

1:07.2

with right now, take care of yourselves, and stop listening at any time. We love you.

1:14.0

I have a confession. I have a new obsession coming to us from a family member. It's a new

1:20.8

web series starring Catherine Scarborough called Big Girl. Catherine says, I wanted to create a show

1:26.9

with a fat protagonist who doesn't hate herself, who has already done the work of loving her body

1:32.3

just as it is, and in which the conflicts for the main character are external. It's been a labor

1:38.0

of love, and I'm very proud of it. Heck yeah. Heck yeah. A labor of love, just like S.A.F.

1:44.6

We have to support. No choice but to support. Catherine is so sweet and funny, and I can't wait

1:51.2

to watch the rest of the episodes. Yelly, where can the family watch? Big Girl is streaming on a

1:57.3

platform for indie filmmakers called Sika TV. That's S-E-E-K-A. You can watch all five episodes

2:05.2

for free without even making an account at watch.seika.tv slash big hyphen girl. We'll link that in

2:14.4

the show notes along with some other links to Catherine's work. You can follow Catherine at K-S

2:19.6

Scarborough on Insta. I'm so excited for y'all to check out her work and remember, if you're doing

2:24.6

something cool and fat-related, shoot us an email so we can shout you the heck out. I want to shout

2:30.4

the heck out of this fat-moly love letter we just received. We've opened a Google form for you,

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