Sonalee Rashatwar, Decolonization and Radical Imagining + A Perfect 14
S2E12 - Cover Image: White background/border with guest photo at the center. KFAI logo appears in the top left. Matter of Fat logo appears at the center over the bottom of the guest photo. Under the logo the name “Sonalee Rashatwar” appears over a goldenrod background. Sonalee is pictured smiling at the camera, hands on hips, in front of a yellow door.
show notes:
It’s season 2 episode 12 of Matter of Fat: a body positive podcast with Midwest sensibilities! Co-hosts Cat Polivoda and Saraya Boghani highlight community voices with a focus on body size, body positivity, & fat liberation.
This episode is sponsored by Superfit Hero. This woman-owned brand is on a mission to make fitness more inclusive with premium activewear in sizes XS-5XL. Cat and Saraya review their superfits in the Fat Dish! Listeners can use code FAT to save 15% off Superfit Hero’s leggings (with pockets!), shorts, and sports bras. Visit superfithero.com to see their full selection and use our code FAT.
First, the Fat Dish! Cat and Saraya remind us about the upcoming fat burlesque show - Take it Off: A Fat Burlesque Revue. The two are excited to share more about the season finale celebration and review superfits from Superfit Hero. Personal dish includes Saraya’s jet setting to NYC, seeing Lindy West IRL, Cat attending PItchfest, and delighting in the TPT Original about Cat and Cake and MoF.
This episode’s interview features Sonalee Rashatwar, @thefatsextherapist on social media. Sonalee (she/they) is Philly-based “award-winning clinical social worker, sex therapist, adjunct lecturere, and grassroots organizer” who presented a workshop with Cake this year in the Twin Cities.
The Dirt and Discourse reviews the recent Twin Cities Film Festival showing of the documentary A Perfect 14. Cat recounts her takes on the bopo film which covers the state of the plus-size modeling industry.
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Fat Dish
Take it Off: Fat Burlesque Revue - Nov 23: www.cakeplussize.com/events/2019/11…urlesque-revue
Season 2 Finale Celebration - Dec 1: www.facebook.com/events/509093536613623/
Super Coat Fund: www.instagram.com/p/B4QnmvblzRG/ or bit.ly/2Op6Z4T
Lindy West’s The Witches are Coming: www.lindywest.net/the-witches-are-coming-1
Women for Political Change: www.womenforpoliticalchange.org/
Cat’s TPT Original: www.tptoriginals.org/one-local-fash…ot-a-bad-word/
Sonalee Rashatwar (she/they)
Sonalee’s Personal Website: SonaleeR.com
Sonalee’s Business Website: RadicalTherapyCenter.com
@TheFatSexTherapist: www.instagram.com/thefatsextherapist/
Dirt + Discourse
A Perfect 14: www.aperfect14.com/