Episode 558: Bodies Change, Honey! with Mekdela

One Bad Mother

Biz Ellis and Theresa Thorn

Moms, Kids & Family, Motherhood, Theresa Thorn, Comedy, Biz Ellis, Podcast, Parenting

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Is "fat" a dirty word? Only if we let it be! Mekdela, author of Plus Size: A Memoir of Pop Culture, Fatphobia, and Social Change, sits down with Biz to talk misogynoir, Kate Winslet in Titanic, and turning "fat" into a neutral term.

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0:00.0	This is Biz and this is the final season of One Bad Mother.
0:04.6	So join us this last year as we remember to Judge Less,
0:08.7	laugh more, and celebrate all the OBS who have been on this journey with us.
0:14.7	This is still a show about life after giving life.
0:17.6	And yes, there will be swears.
0:20.6	This is one bad mother. This week on One Bad Mother,
0:25.0	on One Bad Mother, bodies change, honey.
0:30.0	We talk with the wonderful Medcadela,
0:35.6	who is an author, activist, and organizer
0:39.8	about her new book, Plus Size size a memoir of pop culture fat phobia and social change
0:48.7	welcome Mactella
0:52.1	Thank you.
0:56.0	McDella, before we jump in to talking about your book, I would like to ask you what we ask everyone which is who lives in your house
1:06.2	your abode? So I'm in a three-story town home that's like my apartment and so I have this room. I'm on the third floor and I have
1:18.9	two other floors one below me which is like the kitchen and dining room two people live there and then the
1:24.0	bottom floor is like the garage.
1:26.1	Yeah so you have a full house.
1:28.7	Yeah.
1:29.7	Of people all just stacked up. Are you happy to be on the top floor? I am, I like it. I prefer
1:39.2	top floor. I don't prefer a walk-up, but you know know walk-ups are for the young everybody but I it is nicer to not have
1:47.4	people walking around above you very is nice which is nice which is nice well, just everybody knows, I actually met Meckdella recently at a, we are both
2:00.2	volunteers with Planned Parenthood here in our area of the world and I immediately
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