Total body liberation: an invitation to make your own damn rules with Jes Baker!

Welcome to Flex Your Heart Radio! This podcast is about body, fat and gender positivity, fitness, feminism, recovery, risk, and crushing it at life. 

On this episode, we talk to Jes Baker of The Militant Baker!

 Jes Baker is a Tucson blogger and author who is on a mission to turn our society's concept of beauty on its oppressive head as she knows for a FACT that every person in this world is worthy of respect and feeling valued regardless of their size, shape, shade, sex, ability, gender, age or health records.

Jes’s blog covers a mixture of subjects ranging from the delightful to the uncomfortable. These topics include but are not limited to: notes on the hazardous journey of body acceptance, how to take boudoir photos, rape culture, reasons why you should get a million kittens, equality, feminism rants, why you don't have to be everyone's best friend, and general empowerment.

Mostly, Jes just wants The Militant Baker to be a place in the blogosphere that offers fresh and colorful perspective on what is presented as normal to those immersed in our gender bent, body loathing society.

She believes in the importance of body autonomy, ALL CAPS, self-love, mental health, strong coffee, and even stronger language.

 In this podcast we discuss:

- Making the shit you're passionate about your full time job

- How the internet is inherently dehumanizing

- Dealing with haters and trolls of all kinds

- Removing ourselves from the concept of self love to seek total body liberation 

 and so much more!   ---   You can find Jes on her website The Militant Baker,  on her Facebook, on her Instagram, and her twitter.   ---

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