The One About Being Fit & Fat (Yet, Excluded) With Writer Rose Stokes

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🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Rose Stokes is an award-winning freelance writer and columnist, writing about the things many of us crave to read about. Covering topics such as health and wellbeing; women’s rights; LGBTQIA rights; mental health; diversity and inclusion; relationships, and more has landed Rose in publications such as Vice, Refinery29, The Economist, & Cosmopolitan UK with some of the juiciest and most relatable writings you’ll ever read. But then, a bigger story was featured. One where Rose herself shares her journey with fitness in a fat body, and the exclusions from the wellness industry because of size. Featured in a multi-page spread in Women’s Health UK it became a widely shared article around the world… landing her here with us today to talk about it all.

"If your size isn’t catered for, the underlying message is that you don’t belong"

Follow Rose Stokes on IG @RoseStokes, website: www.rosestokes.co.uk and read the Women’s Health Article here: https://www.womenshealthmag.com/uk/fitness/strength-training/a33441206/rose-stokes-odd-one-out/

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0:59.6	All right, welcome back everyone. Today, we have somebody from Over the Pond,
1:06.8	which you're going to recognize in about two seconds when you hear her accent,
1:10.8	but Rose Stokes is here today. Rose Stokes is a writer and she talks about a slew of different
1:17.2	topics and issues. She's written for Vice. We're fine at you, 29, the economist, guardian telegraph,
1:22.5	the independent, and also a columnist at Metro, which is a newspaper in the UK. So,
1:29.2	Rose Stokes, welcome to the show. Hi, nice to be here. I kind of found you through this article
1:35.6	that was kind of going all over the internet, which was one that you did for women's health.
1:41.9	And the images from it are stunning. It is really, really interesting kind of seeing this topic
1:49.4	about different bodies in a gym space. But I know that that must have not been just one thing
1:55.3	that you're just like, this is a great thing to write about here. Let's write about it. There's
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