Episode 022: On today’s episode of Real Health Radio I interview Virgie Tovar.
Virgie is an author and one of the USA’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is a plus size style writer for BuzzFeed, the founder of BABECAMP and the creator of #LoseHateNotWeight. Virgie also edited the anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion. She holds a Master’s degree in Human Sexuality with a focus on the intersections of body size, race and gender. Virgie has been featured by the New York Times, MTV, Al Jazeera, NPR, Yahoo Health, Yahoo front page, the San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan Magazine Online, Bust Magazine, and was recently named in the Women in Power issue of San Francisco Magazine.
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How her lineage affected her body shape
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How age affects beliefs about weight
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How dating was different to what she had been led to believe it would be
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How her home impacted on beliefs about her body
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Why she prefers fat instead of terms overweight or obese
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How fat shaming and weight discrimination happens in everyday life
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How weight discrimination affects health
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How privilege is an important concept that people need to be aware of
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Why compassion can be so important in understanding privilege
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Why she created #losehatenotweight
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Her experience as a fat activist online
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Her program Babecamp and what it’s all about
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