S1E6: Virgie Tovar

Welcome to the sixth episode of Matter of Fat: a body positive podcast with Midwest sensibilities! Co-hosts Cat Polivoda and Saraya Boghani highlight community voices with a lens on body size, body positivity, & fat liberation.

This episode, Cat and Saraya update each other on what's happening in the Twin Cities and their lives during The Fat Dish, hear about their guest Virgie Tovar’s story as a matter of fat, and dive into the Dirt and Discourse. This episode was released on October 31st 2018.

The Fat Dish is chock full of the ladies waxing poetic about trick or treating. Cat shares her dream of turning a flu shot into a romantic comedy, living her best audio book life, and a stellar yoga session. Saraya also enjoyed the yoga class through the Radical Health Alliance, mentioned her work costume contest exploits, and a literal and wonderful hollering experience. Both hosts are excited to announce the first pod event coming up on December 4th at Spaces in North Loop.

Upcoming local events: Alok Vaid Menon’s performance “Beyond Gender” on November 3rd and voting on November 6th. Check out links below to see who is on your ballot and learn more about attending the performance.

This episode’s interview is with Virgie Tovar. Virgie is a fat activist, scholar, author, and style icon. Her recent book You Have the Right to Remain Fat is a beautiful narrative of growing up fat and realizing that you don’t need to wait to live your best life. Her interview is joyous and thoughtful. Make sure to check out her horror movie recs regardless of the season! Fair warning - Virgie's interview is a bit quiet so just another reason to crank up the volume on this rad babe's work.

In Dirt + Discourse, Cat and Saraya receive a question about Health at Every Size and how reliable (or unreliable) BMI is as an indication of health.

Many thanks to you for listening and reading, Michael for the question, KFAI and Mason Butler for supporting Matter of Fat, Allison Anne Design + Create for our logo, and Kyle Werstein for composing and producing our theme music.

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Mentioned in this episode:
Radical Health Alliance Yoga https://www.facebook.com/RadicalHealthAllianceMN/
Minnesota Secretary of State What’s on my Ballot https://www.sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/whats-on-my-ballot
Alok Vaid-Menon Event “Beyond Gender” https://events.umn.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=event_b&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=871E3EBF-7BB0-4F61-B58A-EDE85378E233
Event on FB https://www.facebook.com/events/708347672876960/
Virgie Tovar https://www.virgietovar.com/
You Have the Right to Remain Fat https://www.feministpress.org/books-n-z/you-have-the-right-to-remain-fat
Health at Every Size https://lindabacon.org/health-at-every-size-book/
BMI https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106268439