You Have the Right to Remain Fat with Virgie Tovar
2023-02-13
This week, Karin welcomes Virgie Tovar, author, lecturer, and leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity, to the show for, ”You Have the Right to Remain Fat.”
Tune in for a discussion on fat discrimination and oppression from diet culture, dissecting the meaning of fat phobia, weight discrimination facts, the ways body size shapes gender roles and stigma, self-hatred as a barrier to finding self-love, recovering from fat phobia in a culture steeped in stigma, behind-the-scenes of her 2018 TedX talk, and more!
Virgie Tovar is an author, lecturer, and leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity. She holds a Master’s degree in Sexuality Studies with a focus on the intersections of body size, race and gender. She is a contributor for Forbes where she covers the plus-size market and how to end weight discrimination at work. In 2018, she gave a TedX talk on the origins of her #LoseHateNotWeight campaign.
Virgie is the author of "You Have the Right to Remain Fat", "The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color", "The Body Positive Journal", and host of "Rebel Eaters Club".
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Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS- Número de episodios
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Welcome to Recovery Bites, a podcast that welcomes voices in the field and voices of lived experience, to get real about recovery.
Join host Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS, clinically renown expert and founder of the Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center, for episodes featuring candid interviews with experts in eating disorder and mental health recovery.
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