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Hear to Slay: The Fat Tax (with Sabrina Strings, and Sonya Renee Taylor)

Hear to Slay: The Fat Tax (with Sabrina Strings, and Sonya Renee Taylor)

FromThe Roxane Gay Agenda


Hear to Slay: The Fat Tax (with Sabrina Strings, and Sonya Renee Taylor)

FromThe Roxane Gay Agenda

ratings:
Length:
16 minutes
Released:
Feb 9, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Sabrina Strings joins Roxane and Tressie to discuss the racist historical roots of fat phobia and what it means for health care today in this special excerpt.. In the full episode Sonya Renee Taylor coaches Roxane and Tressie on how to accept their bodies, and why self-love is a contagious political act. Hear more of this episode, and the entire season, on Luminary (@hearluminary, and www.luminary.link/slay).


Show Notes:
 Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
 The Body is Not an Apology

Hear To Slay theme music by Taka Yasuzawa and Alex Sugiura. Curtis Fox is the senior producer. Sarah Wyman and Catherine Fenollosa are the producers. Production help from Lauren Garcia and Kaityln Adams. Ali McPherson and Isoke Samuel are the interns.
Released:
Feb 9, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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Hear to Slay is the Black feminist podcast of your dreams—compelling conversations curated in only the way Black women can. Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom offer uncommonly incisive reads of the politics that shape the world we live in and the popular culture we consume. If you want to laugh as much as you want to be challenged, if you’re seriously smart but refuse to take yourself too seriously at all, come a little closer because we are here and hear, to slay.