Our guest this week is the amazing Virgie Tovar. Author, activist, and one of America’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image, Virgie has truly dedicated her life and academia to ending diet culture and weight discrimination,  making few guests more apt to feature on this Season of the podcast.
 
In this episode, we explore fatphobia, and its common misconceptions. From feminism and sexuality, to racism and classism, Virgie gives us a crash course on the history and intersectionalities of weight discrimination, and touches on its mental health implications for all of us. Virgie also graciously explains the nuances between the fat activism and body acceptance movements (which, full disclosure, I had never really understood the difference between until reading her work!), and talks us through practical steps we can all take to acknowledge and address the unconscious biases which perpetuate weight stigma.

If you want to hear more about Virgie's work, you can find out all their work through her website: https://www.virgietovar.com/

You can also find Virgie on Instagram using @virgietovar

This Season of Well Undone is brought to in partnership with The Diet-Free Revolution, the new diet-debunking book from clinical psychologist Dr Alexis Conason. Out on the 29th June, and available to pre-order wherever books are sold, you can find a copy in all your usual bookshops.

If you want an even deeper dive, you can also get 30% off Alexis' online 6-week mindfulness-based anti-diet course using the code: WELLUNDONE30