New Year, Still Fat

Welcome to a new season of The Culture Of It All, and our first episode of 2025!No need to sugar coat it, this first month of 2025 has felt like a metric fuck ton of hot garbage. Like so many of you, most days I’ve struggled to find the fuzzy line between staying well informed and falling into a spiral of sadness, empathy and anger at the state of the world.Yes, I do talk about it in this episode, and if you’d like to skip some of it then skip 06:35 - 09:35… however, I’d also like to be transparent and everything I talk about in this episode and all episodes is of course political and a reflection on the state of the world we live in.Diet culture IS political.If we don’t like the state of the world right now, we have to ask ourselves how diet culture plays a part in keeping us quiet? How is diet culture distracting us from the important social issues? How do our Governments use fat folks as a scapegoat in their political policies, and cause more harm to marginalised communities whilst taking away basic human rights and access to care?We don’t have the time to be distracted, and we need to be well fed and rested in order to fight. So, yes you can skip part of this episode but my political opinions, and where I stand is woven throughout it. Please take care of your mental health, pause, come back to it, do what you need to do in order to take care of yourself.Chapters for Ep. 01900:00 Navigating Parenting Challenges and Personal Growth06:35 Reflections on Political Climate and Social Responsibility10:35 The Intersection of Diet Culture and Social Media23:24 Creative Outlaw: Embracing Authenticity and Self-Expression31:10 Nurturing Relationships and Personal DevelopmentTopics discussed in Ep. 019The rigidity and failure connected to goal settingThe wave of ‘New Year New Me’ marketing and GLP-1 advertisingThe shifts in social media, and how this connects to diet cultureMy words of the year, and how they reflect my intentions for 2025How we can embrace being a creative outlaw Thank you for listening to The Culture Of It All! this podcast is a reader-supported publication. To receive early posts, bonus material and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber on Substack. Come say 'hello' on social media! You'll find episode content on Instagram stories. Looking for more conversations around the politics of fashion? Join me on TikTok Until next time, pals — keep showing up, speaking up, and taking up space.