#90 - You Have the Right to Remain Fat (and be a fat ally) with Virgie Tovar

This week I’m talking to author and fat activist Virgie
Tovar about her new book You Have the Right to Remain Fat.
Tune in as Virgie shares her manifesto for standing up to diet
culture.


Virgie Tovar is an author, activist and one of the nation's
leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body
image. She is the founder of Babecamp, a 4-week online course
designed to help women who are ready to break up with diet
culture, and started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight.


Virgie has been featured by the New York Times, Tech Insider, Al
Jazeera and NPR. She pens a weekly column called Take the
Cake on Ravishly.com. She edited the ground-breaking
anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and
Fashion (Seal Press, November 2012) and her latest non-fiction
work, You Have the Right to Remain Fat (published August 2018 by
Feminist Press).


Follow Virgie
Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook


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