[Repost] #148: Disability and Diet Culture with Rebekah Taussig, Disability-Rights Advocate and Writer
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
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🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Disability-rights advocate and writer Rebekah Taussig joins us to talk about why body positivity needs to be a radical and intersectional movement, the connection between body acceptance and disability rights, the many ways in which diet culture has infiltrated disability culture and affects people in disabled bodies, embracing all the emotions that surface when doing anti-oppression work, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about quick ways to respond when a friend says something diet-y or body-shaming. This episode was originally published on March 19, 2018.
Rebekah Taussig is a Kansas City writer and teacher with her PhD in Creative Nonfiction and Disability Studies. She is interested in the powerful connection between the stories we tell and the world we live in, from physical spaces and economic opportunities to social roles and interpersonal relationships. Her writing contributes to the collective narratives being told about disability in our culture -- empowering, mundane, wild, heart-breaking, exhilarating, ordinary stories of her life lived through a paralyzed body. Find her online at RebekahTaussig.com.
Christy's book, Anti-Diet, is available wherever you get your books. Order online at christyharrison.com/book, or at local bookstores across North America, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
Grab Christy's free guide, 7 simple strategies for finding peace and freedom with food, for some ideas of how to get started on the anti-diet path.
If you're ready to break free from diet culture once and for all, come check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my book, Anti-Diet, Reclaim Your Time, |
| 0:05.4 | Money, Wellbeing, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, which is available now wherever books |
| 0:10.4 | are sold. |
| 0:11.4 | Just go to ChristyHarrison.com slash book to get it. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation, |
| 0:21.5 | and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm your host Christy Harrison, and I'm an Anti-Diet Registered Dietitian, Certified |
| 0:28.5 | Intuitive Eating Counselor, and author of the book Anti-Diet. |
| 0:32.6 | Join me here every week as I talk with fellow anti-diet advocates about their journeys |
| 0:36.8 | toward peace with food and their bodies. |
| 0:39.5 | And by the way, on this show, we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie |
| 0:43.7 | numbers, but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion |
| 0:48.8 | is advised. |
| 0:50.6 | The following episode is a fan favorite from the Food Psych Archives. |
| 0:55.2 | We're taking a summer hiatus to rest, restore, and get ready to make our eighth year of |
| 1:00.1 | this podcast the best one yet. |
| 1:02.3 | We'll be back on September 7th for the season 8 premiere, and meanwhile, I hope you'll |
| 1:07.2 | enjoy revisiting this classic episode or hearing it for the first time if you're new to |
| 1:11.9 | the show. |
| 1:25.2 | Hey there, welcome to episode 148 of Food Psych. |
| 1:40.8 | I'm your host Christy Harrison, and today I'm talking with Rebecca Tossig, a disability |
| 1:44.5 | advocate and writer who has one of my absolute favorite Instagram accounts. |
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