ICYMI: Is Weight Lifting a Diet Culture Escape Hatch?

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🗓️ 11 February 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Rachelle speaks with writer and cultural critic Casey Johnston about weight lifting. They discuss what led Casey to pick up the barbell, how she found her way into the online weight lifting space and the following she built there, and the ways weight lifting might be able to break us out of diet culture’s torturous cycle. This podcast is produced by Daniel Schroeder and Rachelle Hampton. Subscribe to Slate Plus at http://slate.com/icymiplus Make an impact this Black History Month by helping Macy’s on their mission to fund UNCF scholarships for HBCU students. Go to macys.com/purpose to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We were Liars. New series, watch now. Only on Prime Video.
0:33.1	Traps are good.
0:35.0	Traps hold your head up. They keep your head on your shoulders.
0:38.0	Like Kim, you can have a trap.
0:42.9	Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I.
0:47.2	In case you missed it, Slay's podcast about internet culture.
0:51.1	And today, today I'm going to get a little bit personal. You might be thinking,
0:56.5	how much more personal can you really get? Y'all already know my fan fiction reading habits,
1:02.8	which were a deep dark secret for a while. And it's true, I have revealed a lot about myself
1:08.5	over the past two years. Wow. But something I rarely have
1:17.6	ever talked about here and kind of in real life is my relationship with my body. That does
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