LET IT OUT18 Juni 2022

Slow Like Snails: Virgie Tovar Returns (Part 1) on Normative Timelines, Letting Go of Control & Happiness Research

This week’s conversation is with Virgie Tovar: author, activist and one of the nation's leading experts on weight-based discrimination and body image. She holds a Master's degree in Sexuality Studies with a focus on the intersections of body size, race and gender. She is a contributor for Forbes and she’s written several books. Her podcast, Rebel Eaters Club, is now in Season 3 and is Transmitter Media's first original production. Virgie has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, MTV, Al Jazeera, NPR, and many more.

We met a few years ago through our mutual friend Isabel Foxen Duke and I’m lucky to call her a friend. This is her second appearance on the podcast. We recorded a conversation last summer and I’ve been eager to talk to her again ever since. We talked over Zoom for two hours and our conversation covered dressing rooms, letting go of a normative timeline, control, markers of success, happiness research, and more.

Show Notes:

- Follow Virgie on the Web | Instagram

- Check out Virgie's Books | Podcast: Rebel Eaters Club

- David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water" speech at Kenyon College

- The Vox podcast episode I mention about sea shells & mollusks

- Take the friendship breakup survey from me and Kayleen Schaefer here

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Episodes 367 & 368: Seasons of Overwhelm with Christy Harrison

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