Fat, Pretty and Soon to be Old by Kimberly Dark with Natalie Boero

Fat Girl Book Club

English - August 05, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 81.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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I am going to be gushing about this one for a long time!!!

For this week's discussion I talked with Natalie Boero about Kimberly Dark's Fat, Pretty and Soon to Be Old. Natalie wrote the article about me that was recently in Women Who Podcast Magazine and I asked her if she wanted to spend some time with me on this show. If you've been in body liberation circles for a bit, you will recognize Natalie as the author of Killer Fat (which normally always gets a reference in most current body acceptance books), so needless to say I am a little excited she came on. In our discussion we covered:

Natalie's fat activist journey including the Padded Lilys, studying fat in academia and how feminism treats anti-fat workWhat fat activism could do betterNatalie's bad fat dayBeing fit and fatFat and pretty/Fat and old identitiesHow this book is a sociological memoirRadical cultural change comes from recognizing intersectionalitiesWhy changing structures is more important than calling out micro aggressionsFat people and airplanesThe impact of Shadow on a Tightrope on Natalie's storyBody positivity in relation to fat activism

Keep reading everyone!

Links

Natalie's Twitter

Natalie's Instagram

Natalie's San Jose State University Page

Killer Fat: Media, Medicine and Morals in the American "Obesity Epidemic"

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment

Show mentions

Flying While Fat FB Page

The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

Fat as a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach

Damaged Like Me by Kimberly Dark