MoF Mini: Body Positivity
show notes:
Body positivity is something we all need to practice… right? Well, like most things, it’s a little more complicated than that. Co-hosts Cat Polivoda and Saraya Boghani consider the pros and cons of body positivity with this Matter of Fat Mini. Matter of Fat is a body positive podcast with Midwest sensibilities. Full episodes highlight community voices with a focus on body size, body positivity, + fat liberation.
This minisode explains how we use BoPo and why it’s just one, imperfect part of larger sustainable change.
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episode resources:
Where are all the disabled people in the body positivity campaigns?
Rachel Cohen Rottenberg, 2017, The Body is not an Apology
Fat Acceptance Activists explain why Body Positivity is Becoming Meaningless
Evette Dionne, 2017, Revelist
The Fragility of Body Positivity: How a Radical Movement Lost Its Way
Evette Dionne, 2017, Bitch
Super Fat Erasure: 4 Ways Smaller Fat Bodies Crowd the Conversation
Caleb Luna, 2019, TBINAA
11 Influencers Discuss The Difference Between Body Positivity and Fat Acceptance
Marie Southard Ospina, 2016, Bustle
How Body Positivity Lost it True and Radical Meaning
Bethany Rutter, 2017, DAZED
3 Things We Grieve When We Become Body Positive
Virgie Tovar, 2020
Dear Virgie: Should We Stop Using Words Like “Thin” and “Fat”?
Virgie Tovar, 2017
Pure Evil: The Entwined History of White Supremacy and Fat Hatred
Shannon Weber, 2017