Episodes
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Ragen Chastain: Debunking Bad Medicine
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Guest: Ragen Chastain (blogger, author, podcaster)
Ragan Chastian began debunking weight loss "science" in 2009. She originally just wanted to find the most effective diet for weight loss. What she found was over a centruy of bad research. It was so bad, she did her search a second time to verify she hadn't missed anything.
What she discovered is that most "weight loss" research limits its time period to less than two years. When participants began to regain weight, research simply stops and reports what happened in the first year. She discusses how current astroturf organizations (fake grass roots groups) continue to promote bunk science to further their profits.
We also chat about how the weight lost industry has co-opted the language of body liberationists to promote weight stigma and continue to get folks to risk their lives to be thin.
Sites and Socials
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Chrissy King: Black, Beautiful, & Liberated!
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Guest: Chrissy King, author
Chrissy King, writer and wellness influencer, joins Auntie Vice to chat about her new book, The Body LIberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Cultivates Joy and Build Collective Freedom, and her work in body liberation. From working in the depths of diet culture as a personal fitness trainer to divorcing diet culture and working toward body liberation for all, she talks about her journey and what she has learned.
Her book and our conversation was absolutely fantastic! Chrissy shares so much insight and much of her story will resonnate with the listerners. This is a must-hear show!
Sites and Socials
@IAmChrissyKing on Twitter and Instagram
Wednesday Jan 09, 2019
Bonus Clips! Alice in Bondageland and Bevin
Wednesday Jan 09, 2019
Wednesday Jan 09, 2019
Bonus Clips!!
Our producer CharRon has put bonus material together from some of our most interesting guests.
Alice in Bondageland talks pet play and why people would be into kink.
Bevin (Fat Kids Dance Party) talks about the importance of self-care and how she goes about self-care with her incredibly demanding schedule.
Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
Episode 8: The Princess Kali and The Body Political
Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
Fat Chicks On Top
Episode 8
Guests: The Princess Kali and Andi and Laika from The Body Political
CharRon Smith guest co-hosts. Auntie Vice and CharRon talk about men's again bodies, CharRon's re-introduction to his toes through yoga, and raising interracial kids.
The Princess Kali (author, kink educator) chat about Enough to Make You Blush, humiliation play, kink, and finding your sexual boundaries.
Andi and Laika (producers, burlesque dancers) talk about the development of their show "The Body Political," creating a nationally recognized burlesque show, and how burlesque can be used as a way to tell the stories of our bodies and our political time.
Sunday Jun 24, 2018
Episode 4: Men
Sunday Jun 24, 2018
Sunday Jun 24, 2018
Fat Chicks On Top: Men
6/25/2018
Guests: Sean "Monkey" Mackiney; Issac "Ike" Torres (poet); Ngaio Bealum (comic, Cooking on High)
Hosts JennyLynn and Auntie Vice discuss why men need to be included in the body positive movement and what they love about men.
Sean "Monkey" Mackiney (Host of Brown Chicken Brown Cow) discusses living with chronic pain and an accident which left him unable to walk for six months; being polyamourous; opening his marriage after 10 years; and sex.
Issac "Ike" Torres (poet, actor) discusses his multipe "fat cycles," what it is like to be large, male and on stage, and performs a piece from ManChild abotu weight.
Ngaio Bealum (comin, Cooking on High) discusses weed, finding his stage look, black sitcom dads and what he is grateful for.
Sunday Jun 24, 2018
Episode 2: Health
Sunday Jun 24, 2018
Sunday Jun 24, 2018
Episode 2: Health
05/26/201/8
Guests: Bevin (Fat Kids Dance Party); April Lauryn; AndYes (poet)
Co-hosts JennyLynn and Auntie Vice discuss their personal health journeys, being Bipolar, and the health system.
Bevin, Creator of Fat Kids Dance Party, discusses creating a body-positive workout video series based on her successful class in Los Angeles, the lesbian aestethic, finding her passion, and self-care.
April Lauryn discusses her journey to find out she has Cushing's, the way the medical profession treats fat women, and how she found the strenght to keep fighting for her life.
AndYes (poet) discusses being asexual, living with depression, creativity and growing as a poet.