[Repost] #200: How Diet Culture Harms the Gay Community with Jeff Iovannone, Gender-Studies Scholar and LGBTQ Activist
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Activist and scholar Jeff Iovannone joins us to discuss diet culture and harmful body standards in the gay community, how oppression and the AIDS crisis shaped the “normate gay” aesthetic, why every body is a Pride body, how to create a gay men’s body-liberation movement, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about fatphobia in eating-disorder treatment programs. (This episode was originally published on June 24, 2019.)
Jeff Iovannone is an activist-scholar, writer, and researcher from Buffalo, New York who specializes in gender and LGBTQ studies. He is the creator of the blog Queer History for the People, writes a bi-weekly column--entitled Talk Queerly--on LGBTQ culture and politics for the web magazine Th-Ink Queerly, and is a founding member of Body Liberated Buffalo, a volunteer-run activist and advocacy organization that works for body liberation in Western New York. Find him online at medium.com/@jeffry.iovannone.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. |
| 0:01.4 | So the podcast is currently on an extended hiatus so that I can write my next book and work |
| 0:06.9 | on some other exciting projects. |
| 0:09.0 | But while we're away, I hope you'll enjoy this fan favorite episode from the archives. |
| 0:13.9 | If you want brand new content to help you make peace with food and heal from diet culture, |
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| 0:24.8 | I answer a weekly listener question. |
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| 0:45.8 | up or click the links in the episode description. |
| 0:49.7 | Welcome to food psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation |
| 0:56.1 | and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:58.8 | I'm your host christieherrisand and I'm an anti diet registered dietitian, certified intuitive |
| 1:04.1 | eating counselor and author of the book anti diet, reclaim your time, money, well being |
| 1:09.9 | and happiness through intuitive eating, which is available wherever books are sold. |
| 1:15.5 | Join me here every week as I interview interesting people from all different backgrounds about |
| 1:20.2 | their paths toward peace with food and their bodies. |
| 1:23.8 | And by the way, on this show we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, |
| 1:29.2 | but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. |
| 1:59.8 | Hey there, welcome to episode 200 of food psych. |
| 2:03.4 | I can't believe I'm saying that number 200 episodes is a big milestone and we have a great |
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