Afleveringen
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In this riotous episode, Parker McMullen Bushman (they/she) takes us on their journey to become an activist and educator in the environmental education and outdoor spaces when no one looked like them. Fat, Black, queer, and non-binary, Parker shares how disparities in access to nature are outcomes from the Jim Crow laws, how race is different from ethnicity, and that disrupting white supremacy is about questioning default assumptions.
Parker, aka KWEEN WERK, is bringing people together in the fight for Environmental Justice and Social Equity. Using Social Media as a tool, this Social Justice Activist is part Fashion Diva, Artist and Educator. KWEEN stands for Keep Widening Environmental Engagement Narratives. Parker has a passion for equity and inclusion in outdoor spaces. Their interest in justice, accessibility, and equity issues developed from their personal experiences facing the unequal representation of people of color in environmental organizations and green spaces. Parker tackles these complex issues by addressing them through head-on activism and education.
As the Chief Operating Officer of Inclusive Journeys, and CEO/Founder of Ecoinclusive Strategies, Parker is a dynamic speaker and facilitator who engages organizations in new thinking around what it means to be a diversity change-agent and create dynamic organizational change. Parker’s background in the non-profit leadership, activism, conservation, environmental education and outdoor recreation fields spans over 24+ years.
Please connect with Parker through their TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and website. Links to Ecoinclusive and the Inclusive Guide.
This episode’s poem is called “Teach Me” by Malgosia Halliop.
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A bonus minisode where each guest answers 10 surprising questions with unexpected results. Hilarity ensues.
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(Content Note: mention of sexual assault)
Melanie Tufts (she/her) and Emma Deakin (she/her) collaboratively create boudoir photography experiences grounded in fat-positivity, equity, and consent. Sophia, host of the Fat Joy podcast, did a boudoir photo shoot with them and shares her experience being photographed nude, and how everything they did throughout the experience felt like a reclamation of her body.
Melanie Tufts is a fat-positive boudoir photographer. Her focus on the boudoir genre, specifically for women, allows her to focus on her values and ideologies. She views her work as personal activism against societal pressures dictating how women, especially those in marginalized bodies, should appear and behave. Reclaiming sensuality as a personal journey, Melanie strives to provide a safe space for women. Alongside her husband, three kids, and one very spoiled cat, she lives in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, where she also serves as a creative consultant contributing to a local mental health community's website and photography needs.
Connect with Melanie on her website, Instagram, Facebook page, and Women’s Only VIP Facebook Group.
Emma Deakin is a licensed Hairstylist and Makeup Artist and the Owner of Bare Bones Beauty located in Brantford, Ontario. Emma’s focus in life is self-love and self-acceptance, which she brings into her salon practices. Emma became a member of the Fanshawe Hair Program Faculty in 2021 as well as an Education Leader for the hair line, Colorproof.
Connect with Emma on Instagram and Facebook.
This episode’s poem is called “a brief meditation on breath” by Yesenia Montilla.
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A bonus minisode where each guest answers 10 surprising questions with unexpected results. Hilarity ensues.
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Jessie Diaz-Hererra (she/her) is here to help us “Free the Jiggle,” which is one of the signature dance offerings from her company, Power Plus Wellness located in New York City. Jessie shares the moment she learned to feel shame about her body, and how that moment actually led to the co-founding of her movement business that now offers classes like aerial yoga, ballet, and aqua stretch & sound baths- all specifically for plus-size bodies.
Jessie Diaz-Herrera is a dancer, certified group fitness instructor, and body positivity advocate who has dedicated her career to exploring and celebrating all bodies in dance. She believes that everyone should feel empowered to move and express themselves through dance, regardless of their shape or size. Through her workshops, Jessie uses body-positive affirmations, uplifting songs, and easy follow-along dance moves to create an inclusive and body-confident environment. Jessie is also the co-founder of Power Plus Wellness, a Latina-owned business curating private movement classes and events for plus-size bodies to jiggle freely, unlearn diet culture, and joyfully co-regulate in a safe community.
Please connect with Jessie through her website, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.
This episode’s poem is called “Lion” by Tina Chang.
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A bonus minisode where each guest answers 10 surprising questions with unexpected results. Hilarity ensues.
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Dr. Theresa Melito-Conners (she/her) brings her Ph.D-level expertise to a conversation about the ten domains of self care. No, not bubble baths and spa days (although we can love those too), but rather deeper levels of how we show up fully and authentically as humans and what might get in our way.
Theresa Melito-Conners, Ph.D. (Dr. MC) is the founder of Dr. MC’s Self-Care Cabaret, a suite of theatre-inspired, self-care and professional development services for helping professionals. The Self-Care Cabaret encompasses workshops, a podcast, and educational curricula all focused on accessible and realistic strategies that equip and empower.
Please connect with Theresa through her website, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
This episode’s poem is called “The Coming of Light” by Mark Strand.
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A bonus minisode where each guest answers 10 surprising questions with unexpected results. Hilarity ensues.
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Artist Lindsey Guile (she/her) draws charcoal images of nude, fat people…on canvases that are eight-feet tall. Her fat bodies literally take up space and tower over viewers. Lindsey shares what motivated her to embrace fat liberation (spoiler: gallbladder disease and an eating disorder) and use her artistic talents to challenge the hierarchy of art.
Lindsey Guile is a body and fat-liberation artist exploring concepts of self-image through the lens of contemporary feminist theory. Lindsey’s practice embraces an intermedia approach that utilizes drawing, printmaking, and ceramics in her explorations into how body image affects self- worth. Her work has been exhibited at The Arnot Museum, The Dorsky Museum, The Birke Art Gallery, The Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery, Untitled Space Gallery, Women’s Work Gallery, The Williamsburg art & Historical Center, and more. She was an Artist in Residence at the Blue Mountain Center in the summer of 2021.
Lindsey is an Assistant Professor of Visual Art at Dutchess Community College. She is also the Director of the Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery on campus. She has an MFA from SUNY New Paltz and a BFA and MA degrees from SUNY Oswego. Lindsey currently lives in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Please connect with Lindsey through her website and Instagram.
This episode’s poem is called “Keeping Still” by Pablo Neruda.
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A bonus minisode where each guest answers 10 surprising questions with unexpected results. Hilarity ensues.
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Andrea Westbrook (she/her) is a Size-Inclusion Specialist who works with organizations to become less stigmatizing for plus-size and fat folks. She shares why this is essential for all workplaces, what it’s costing businesses who don’t do it, and 5 steps that both individuals and organizations can take to do better by their employees.
Andrea Westbrook’s mission is to bring body size into the Diversity and Inclusion conversation. Andrea works with individuals and guides them to stop letting their beliefs about their size hold them back so that they can connect with themselves and fully embody the life they truly want to live. Andrea also works with organizations to create awareness about the impacts of weight-stigma and anti-fat bias for their employees so that they can improve employee engagement, wellness, and retention, as well as create a truly inclusive company culture where every BODY can reach their full potential regardless of their size. Andrea is also the host of the Curvy Culture Podcast.
Andrea mentioned her coach training school, Beautiful You Coaching Academy.
Please connect with Andrea through her website, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Get her size-inclusion checklist for HR & DEI practitioners, too.
This episode’s poem is called “From Blossoms” by Li-Young Lee.
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A bonus minisode where each guest answers 10 surprising questions with unexpected results. Hilarity ensues.
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Lama Rod Owens’ (he/him) earliest memories of suffering were related to his body. He shares how through compassion and joy, we can find the space and sacredness to come into balance with our bodies and the natural world. Lama Rod’s experience with queer male spaces, and his need to separate from them, led to seeking community and, ultimately, his own freedom.
Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen. A leading voice in a new generation of Buddhist teachers with over 11 years of experience, Lama Rod activates the intersections of his identity to create a platform that’s very natural, engaging, and inclusive. Applauded for his mastery in balancing weighty topics with a sense of lightness, his mission is showing you how to heal and free yourself.
Please connect with Lama Rod through his website, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube
Also, you can check out his new book The New Saints on Bookshop and Amazon.
This episode’s poem is called “Sanctuary” by Ada Limon.
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A bonus minisode where each guest answers 10 surprising questions with unexpected results. Hilarity ensues.
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Diet culture and anti-fatness are very present in our schools, from being designed into the curriculum to showing up in the teacher’s lunchroom. Cait O-Connor (she/her) began her own fat liberation journey in her early 20s and quickly brought anti-diet principles into her classrooms. Cait shares how students have responded to her anti-fat lessons and how parents and teachers can support kids further.
Cait O’Connor is a national award-winning middle school English teacher from New York, and the creator of #DitchingDietCultureAtSchool. She is passionate about mental health advocacy, peer work, and eating disorder recovery, and she has written for publications such as Edutopia, English Journal, Language Arts, and is featured in chapter 10 of Virginia Sole-Smith’s book, Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture.
Mentioned in this episode: Ditching Diet Culture at School digital resource library, Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, Harvard Implicit Association test (choose Weight IAT), What’s Eating Us, and The Fat Joke poem by Rachel Wiley.
Please connect with Cait through Instagram and Twitter.
This episode’s poem is called “How to Triumph Like a Girl” by Ada Limon.
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If you’d like to learn more about mental health care by and for fat folks, please check out Tend and Cultivate Counseling.
(Content Note: mention of sexual violence.)
Plus-size pageant Queens Choniece Stevenson (she/her), Ellen Miller (she/her), and Rebecca Breedlove-Berry (she/her) share what got them into pageant world, how being part of this experience changed how they feel about their bodies, and how they use their platforms to create positive change and social justice. Plus, their biggest moments of awe and oh-no! during the competition.
Choniece Stevenson is a mental health and confidence coach. Her goal is to be a listening ear for those that feel unheard and educate on the importance of mental health. She is the first African American title holder for Ms. Voluptuous International. Connect with Choniece on Instagram.
Ellen Miller is an emergency nurse practitioner hailing from Northern Ireland but currently living in London, UK. She’s the previous Miss Voluptuous Ireland and an Ambassador for an incredible organization called Say It Loud that supports survivors of sexual violence. Connect with Ellen on Instagram.
Rebecca Breedlove-Berry is the current Ms. Supreme International and former Ms. Voluptuous Virginia 22/23. She is the mother of two and works as a volunteer coordinator. Connect with Rebecca on Instagram.
This episode’s poem is called “Revery” by Fenton Johnson.
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A bonus minisode where each guest answers 10 surprising questions with unexpected results. Hilarity ensues.
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If you’d like to learn more about mental health care by and for fat folks, please check out Tend and Cultivate Counselling.
(Content Note: this episode mentions childhood assault, sexual assault, and incest.)
Mary Lambert (she/her) shares how she uses music and poetry to “make art for the wound” of being made to feel wrong. As someone who is fat, queer, and bipolar, her journey towards joy has been worth all the challenges as she’s now in her “body euphoria” era.
Mary Lambert is a multi-platinum artist, author of the poetry collection Shame is an Ocean I Swim Across, and has performed on the Colbert Show, Ellen, The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Tonight Show, and the American Music Awards. Lambert also received the Human Rights Campaign’s Visibility Award, The SAMHSA Special Recognition Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for her work on destigmatizing mental illness, and was invited to speak at the UN.
Lambert is currently working on a new book and album about body image; co-starring in the Netflix animated musical and series, I ♥️ Arlo and Arlo the Alligator Boy; co-hosting The Manic Episodes, a queer and mental health podcast; and facilitates a virtual workshop on body image called Everybody is a Babe.
Please connect with Mary on Instagram and her website.
Mary reads her own poem to us. It’s called “Jesus Loves My Crop Top” from her book Shame is an Ocean I Swim Across.
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A bonus minisode where each guest answers 10 surprising questions with unexpected results. Hilarity ensues.
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