Taking down anti-fat bias with Aubrey Gordon

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🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Our weekly panel chat is back! NPR’s Code Switch hosts B.A. Parker and Lori Lizarraga join us to discuss the week’s pop culture news. We cover the Academy Award nominations, cultural expectations for tipping and a man who survived off of ketchup while lost at sea. Then, Maintenance Phase co-host Aubrey Gordon tells us about her new book ‘You Just Need to Lose Weight: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People.’ In it, she tackles untruths like "being fat is a choice" and “fat people don’t experience discrimination.” We talk about how to combat anti-fat bias and Aubrey’s hope for greater legal protections.

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1:08.7	I'm Greta Johnson.
1:09.8	We are back and we did it. We made it to another weekend. Coming up, Aubrey Gordon is going to tell us all about the untruths that she debunked in her new book, You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 other myths about fat people. We're talking about a web of attitudes and beliefs and policies that all sort of conspire to keep, in this case,
1:31.6	fat people on the margins.
1:33.5	But first, it's our chance to sit back, relax, and unwind from the week that was with two
1:38.0	fabulous humans with us this week.
1:40.2	We have two of the hosts of the NPR show Code Switch, Lori, Lisa Raga and B.A. Parker,
1:45.9	Lori, hello. Hi, thanks for having us. Thanks so much for having us. We're happy to be here.
1:51.5	All right. Let's start with Oscar nominations. Everything Everywhere, All at Once got the most nominations.
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