UNTAMED 007: On Body Size + Fatphobia as Bigotry with Virgie Tovar
Untamed Podcast: Wildly Disrupting the Dialogue on Food, Body and Womxnhood
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Welcome back to Episode 7 of the Untamed Podcast with guest Virgie Tovar. Virgie is an author, activist and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp, a 4-week online course designed to help those who are ready to break up with diet culture, and started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight. Tovar edited the ground-breaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press, November 2012). She holds a Master’s degree in Human Sexuality with a focus on the intersections of body size, race and gender. After teaching “Female Sexuality” at the University of California at Berkeley, where she completed a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science in 2005, she...
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