Fat-Phobia Brain Rot: Racism, Conservatism, & Diet Culture

Hello beautiful people! We have a real return to the podcast with an updated setup, updates on life, discussing my disgust for the bezos wedding, and diving deep on fatphobia, the recent rise in rhetoric, it’s connection to conservatism and white supremacy. How we can rebel against the empire by radically accepting our bodies and taking up literal and figurative space. I’ve also got a tarot reading for the week ahead, seems like some of us need to take the training wheels off, use our voice, and follow our hearts!babblings will be out every Monday of July and August, make sure your subscribed somewhere all the places you can get babblings are linked below.0:00 into/life catch up8:35 babblings update12:47 besoz wedding16:40 Tarot for the week ahead26:39 body image35:06 conservatism, religion, incels, skinnytok38:45 fatphobia roots in racism & history46:12 deconstructing internalized fatphobiaMore babblings:Substack: https://babblings.substack.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aliannreed/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@babblings20References:Juxtaposing contested bodies: What can be learned from the politics of weightism and of women’s exclusionhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/21604851.2024.2361545?needAccess=trueFat as a neoliberal epidemic: Analyzing fat bodies through the lens of political epidemiologyhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/21604851.2021.1906524?needAccess=true‘Fatphobia’ a form of oppression, says philosopher Kate Mannehttps://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/01/fatphobia-form-oppression-says-philosopher-kate-manne**“Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia,” by Sabrina Strings, book review**https://csw.ucla.edu/2020/11/23/fearing-the-black-body-the-racial-origins-of-fat-phobia-by-sabrina-strings-nyu-press-2019/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit babblings.substack.com