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[CLOSED] Send us your victories!
🕑 Added 2023-09-10 18:38:24 +0000 UTCEdited to add: we've recorded this episode for release in the next few months! Thank you all so much for sending us your many audacious, impactful wins.
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Hey, dreamboats!
For an upcoming bonus episode later this fall, we want to celebrate the change you all are making in your communities, big and small. Did you get your work to drop its "biggest loser" weight loss challenge? Did you have a hard conversation with one of your parents about their body politics, or change your approach to talking about food and bodies with your kids? Have you been organizing for your campus to provide seating that's accessible for fat people?
Whatever your wins are in combatting anti-fatness and misinformation, big or small, we want to hear them! Send your listener questions to maintenancephase@gmail.com with "Victories" in the subject line. Please include your pronouns, your first name, and whether/how you'd like to be identified on the show.
And stay tuned for an UTTERLY BANANAS bonus episode later this month.
Thanks, as ever, for your support!
M&A
Comments
Sarah Stanley
Woof, that sounds really tough 😮 good on ya for taking a stand for basic human decency in your workplace! Who knows, maybe other coworkers who feel similarly will feel emboldened by your action. ✨
Bronwyn
I spoke to my boss at work. There was a conversation in the lunchroom about fat women “need to have self control” and some other bs about seats on airplanes. I told my boss that I was choosing it to eat in the lunchroom for a while because the conversation made me uncomfortable. That I don’t want to be the “conversation police “ but can I would like it if in addition to not discussing religion and politics at work if we also don’t discuss people’s bodies. It was a really hard conversation to have.
Amber L. Vaillancourt
Just dropping a note to say I love you guys and the pod SO SO MUCH. I’m so appreciative of these conversations and communities. Where I maybe felt alone before I now feel camaraderie.
Marie-Christine Loyer
I went to my doctor's for the first time in 7 years. I was very anxious. I never really suffered from fatphobia in the medical sector, but that is also because I was always very privileged to not have big health issues, except for mental health. But I know she used to always let me know when I gained weight compared to the previous year - nothing more nothing less. I took ''a lot'' of weight in the last few years and it's the fatest I've ever been but also the best I ever felt mentally in a long time... The appointment went super well. She simply wrote down my new weight. Nothing more nothing less. No comment on having gained weight or needing to loose weight, She simply asked the standard questions of anything special? You're feeling good? And I was on my way. I feel like that is a win, even if she might not know :) And I feel it is a victory that I battled my anxiety and I am getting myself checked again.
