You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar with Jenna Donovan

If I could have a Fat Girl Dinner Party and I could invite anyone I wanted to, Virgie Tovar would be top of my list. I have heard her on so many podcasts and I have watched her YouTube video but this book, You have the Right to Remain Fat, changed the way I looked at everything. This week on Fat Girl Book Club, Jenna Donovan from The Self-Compassion Project and I get into all the ways diet culture and fat phobia intersect with racism, classism and sexism. Some of the other things we talked about include:

-Jenna’s Health at Every Size journey

-How fitness and health clash

-Moving your body to feel good and not for weight loss. A discussion of jiggling

-The wonderful world of napping

-You don’t have to change your body

-How women are educated to be women. What rom-coms, Sex in the City and The Babysitters Club taught us

-How fat phobia has affected her life

-How diet culture has affected our lives

-Whether or not bootstrapping is just an American ideology or if it has seeped into Canadian culture

-The intersections between diets culture and sexism

-The internalization of inferiority

-The importance of language and how its being used against us

-Classism and racism in diet culture

-Why privilege is misunderstood

Enjoy this discussion and let me know your thoughts!

The Self Compassion Project Website:
https://www.selfcompassionprojectyeg.com/?fbclid=IwAR0sC9NKryOlA2pd9HWIZeH-q4n_URteJviZCj81opob1tsgqxifQG_HZ-c

The Self Compassion Project Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/theselfcompassionproject/

The Self Compassion Project Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/theselfcompassionprojectyeg/

You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar:
https://www.amazon.ca/You-Have-Right-Remain-Fat-ebook/dp/B07CSHWZ5H/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=You+Have+the+Right+to+Remain+Fat&qid=1584462575&s=books&sr=8-1-fkmr1

Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison:
https://www.amazon.ca/Anti-Diet-Reclaim-Well-Being-Happiness-Intuitive/dp/0316420352/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Anti+Diet&qid=1584462618&sr=8-1

Wage gap between men and women in Canada
https://globalnews.ca/news/4741304/statistics-canada-gender-earnings-gap/

Timeline of the Wet'suwet'en protests happening in Canada
https://globalnews.ca/news/6560125/timeline-wetsuweten-pipeline-protests/