In This Episode, We Chat About

• The importance of writing her book about a topic that is often left out of the fat acceptance conversation,
• The moment in her childhood where Joy began to identify that there was something different about her and that it was causing people to interact with her differently,
• The impacts of Adultification on Black children,
• The idealistic standards of women’s bodies in diet culture and how it’s different in the Black community, but just as unrealistic,
• The many ways food and bodies are talked about in Black collectives, and how it’s just diet culture repurposed in different ways,
• The intersection of religion and fatphobia, and how hearing scriptures about gluttony creates confusion and frustration,
• The personal things Joy had to reckon with after parting ways from the church,
• Her experience standing up to the doctor about weight loss at a young age,
• The little moments that helped her realized the dangers of diet culture and disordered eating and her experience slowly shifting away from that,
• How knowledge helped her stop demonizing her body,
• How Joy practices acceptance by being gentle with herself,
• The importance of asking yourself “whose voice matters?” and listening to yourself instead of the negativity around you,
• That everyone may not receive and accept you as you are, but you don’t have to endure that,
• Plus so much more!

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Links Mentioned in Show

• Joy’s book, “Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own”
• Joy’s podcast Fresh Out The Cocoon

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