Black Women’s Bodies with Jessica Wilson
Change The Narrative with JD Fuller
English - April 07, 2023 09:00 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMental Health Health & Fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Jessica Wilson, is a co-creator of the Amplify Melanated Voices challenge that went viral in 2020. She is a clinical dietitian, consultant and author, whose experiences navigating the dietetic fields as a Black, queer dietitian have been featured on public radio shows and in print media, including the New York Times, Bustle, and Cronkite News. Jessica has worked as a clinical dietitian since 2007 and is acutely aware of how both the public health and medical framing of “healthy eating” and “obesity” has contributed to disordered eating and self-blame. Jessica co-hosted My Black Body Podcast, which changed the conversation about who has eating disorders and how treatment fails so many people. Her book, It’s Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies was published on February 7, 2023, and we can’t wait to talk all about it today on CTN with JD Fuller.
What You Will Hear:
Jessica’s background and what helped develop her self imageDietetics and therapyNeurodivergenceRegionality and intersectionalityPassion and purpose behind her bookPlastic surgery and black women’s bodiesThe term obeseRacismQuotes:
.”My blackness was by far my most salient identity in a lot of the work that I was doing,”
“Black women's body stories have been written by whiteness.”
“You're telling us from a very young age that we need to be worried about our eminent demise. But that's not because of me, it's because of medical racism. It's about white supremacy, it's about trauma and toxic stress.”
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