Hello and welcome to another episode of iWay with Jimmy Lidjamil. I hope to find you well.

I find nothing's changed, gone nowhere, done nothing. I am nothing. I feel embarrassed doing

the intros for these now because just I've nothing new to report and also there's so many more

interesting and terrifying things happening in the news. So I guess myself has just been consumed

by the outside. I wonder if you feel the same. Thank you so much for your lovely messages about

Katherine Boehart's episode last week where we talked at length about mental health in particular

OCD. I've received so many personal and loving messages and messages from people who've passed it

on to family members who are struggling with the condition and so I really really appreciate

the recommendations you send me and and I really want to know who you want me to continue to talk to

and what you want me to talk about because I could do with all the learning and all the info so that

I can make this podcast exactly what you want. This week's guest is really special and she's

someone that if you aren't following her on Twitter I suggest you do not just because she's very

funny but she's also very smart and unbelievably resilient and transparent online. Her name is

Stephanie Iboa. Some people might have known her before as Nerd About Town. She was a famous fashion

blogger who's now kind of moved into more of a style icon and an activist space. She works within

what she used to describe as the body positive movement but now has become more of the fat acceptance

movement because the body positive movement has been taken over by thin, predominantly light skinned

if not white influences who just show off their very traditionally acceptable bodies and then

just say hashtag body positivity. It's become this slogan that's been taken over by capitalism

and materialism so it's no longer a social political movement that was there designed to help people

who were being medically discriminated against and societally discriminated against because of the

way that they look because of how their body functioned or because of the size of their body.

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