In this episode of Fearless Rebelle Radio, I chat with Lyndsey Averill and Viri Lieberman, the creators of the movie Fattitude – a documentary that exposes how popular culture fosters fat prejudice and then offers an alternative way of thinking – on fat acceptance, thin privilege and body positivity and why they created Fattitude to change our culture to eradicate size prejudice.
In this episode, we chat about:
- The inspiration behind the movie Fattitude and why Lyndsey and Viri created it
- Lyndsey and Viri’s personal experiences that led them to want to create this film
- How diet culture and the beauty industry has co-opted “body positivity” for their capital gains
- Whether weight loss and fat acceptance can go hand-in-hand
- How the media’s representation of fat bodies perpetuates size discrimination
- Why “health” is becoming the new guise for diet culture
- The insidious ways fatphobia exists in our culture and why changing our language and words can contribute to it
- What it means to have thin privilege and why it’s important to acknowledge that it exists
- How you can support the film to bring it into film festivals and create cultural change
- Plus so much more!
Show notes:
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