3. My Diet Culture Story

Trigger Warning!!I In today’s episode, I’m sharing my diet culture story. I have to confess that this is perhaps a heavy episode for anyone who has experienced sexual abuse and rape. I was not expecting to be vulnerable and share what I did. I hope that you can feel seen by my story and know that you are not alone. I referenced feminist standpoint theory as an important framework to situate my lived experience as a site of production of knowledge and in challenging diet culture that far too long silenced my voice. My experiences matters. Your story matters. You matter. In Borderlands/La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa, a Chicana feminist, theorized about la facultad, a deeper level of understanding that one can achieve by deep self-reflection and digging and unearthing below the surface. La facultad is a tool that individuals with marginalized identities can use to challenge oppressive narratives they have been brought up with and internalized. I used this concept as I shared my story and integrate it in my anti-diet work.  Equally important is the concept of nepantla, this in-between space of fluidity, contradiction, messiness, and ambiguity. I use nepantla in my story to describe how I navigated visibility and invisibility and made sense of the different forms of oppression and trauma I experienced as a child and teenager. I am a nepantlera who is constantly in between spaces, always in transition.  --------------------------------- I would greatly appreciate if you can leave a review for this podcast Dismantling Diet Culture: F*ck Being Calladita on Apple Podcasts! Don't forget to follow me on Instagram and TikTok @drhortenciajimenez and visit www.hortenciajimenez.com ---------------------------------- Dismantling Diet Culture: Fuck Being Calladita, is the only spanglish anti-diet podcast where your host Dr. Hortencia Jimenez shares her personal experience with diet culture, tips and strategies and education content to help you understand diet culture and systems of oppression so that you can have the tools to challenge diet culture. Current and future generations do not deserve to inherit your diet culture trauma and I’m here to help you. If you are on a mission to heal body and food traumas and embody your authentic self unapologetic, welcome to Dismantling Diet Culture: Fuck Being Calladita ---------------------------------- Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended to substitute therapy or medical advice. Please speak with a licensed therapist if you experience trauma triggers or a registered anti-diet dietitian with any nutritional questions.