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Fat Joy with Sophia Apostol

Sophia Apostol
Body Positivity
Fat Liberation
Diet Culture
Fatphobia
Fat Activism
Joy and Pleasure
Self-Care
Parenting
Social Media Activism
Health At Every Size
Misogyny
Music Industry
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Environmental Education
Queerness
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Fat Representation
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Mental Health

The Fat Joy podcast is a joyful rebellion against anti-fatness. Each episode is a conversation between host and Professional Coach Sophia Apostol and another fat person about how to flourish in our fatphobic world. We’re exploring the harms, biases, and oppressions we’ve experienced while living in a world that marginalizes plus-size & fat bodies and promotes the lies of Diet Culture. But most imp... more

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Tiana Dodson
A passionate individual sharing her thoughts on life and personal interests.
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Elle Baez
Singer-songwriter and body positivity advocate
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Charis Stiles
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Reviews

4.5 out of 5 stars from 173 ratings
  • Best laugh of all time

    Love everything about this podcast: Sophia’s guests, her politics, the poems she chooses, and most especially, her voice and laugh are the best!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Cateliper1
    United Statesa year ago
  • Love hanging with the 2%er club

    this podcast is pure warmth and kindness. I really appreciate how the conversations flow so easily and the topics are shared in a down to earth way (as opposed to academic).

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    draWords
    Canada2 years ago
  • Interesting guests and topics

    This is a lovely, enlightening, mind-broadening podcast about fat joy and liberation. Real, deep topics with a light touch. Highly recommend to fat people wanting community and straight-sized people wanting to be allies.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    kamcrab
    United States2 years ago
  • thank you!

    one of the voices that feeds actual logic to our diet-culture-corrupted brains. thank you, sophia for your poems, ease, and resistance, and for always bringing it back to joy. 💗

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    lllvvvmmm
    United States2 years ago
  • This podcast is fabulous!

    For every version of me that tried to be thin, for every diet and fad and cleanse I did to try and claim my inner thinness, this podcast helps throw that in the garbage and claim the amazing version of me that just wants to take up space.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    TLC-80F
    United Kingdom2 years ago

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Recent interactions between the hosts and their guests.

Feeling Belonging, Accepted, and Loveable -- Charis Stiles
Q: What do you think are the components of Joy?
Charis believes joy is very individual and often requires intentional effort and vulnerability to create it, especially for those burdened by societal pressures.
Feeling Belonging, Accepted, and Loveable -- Charis Stiles
Q: Charis, what has been your experience living in the world as a fat person, as a queer person, as someone with autoimmune?
Charis shares that they felt different early on, which led to experiences of shame, and began to see body positivity around 2008. They also discussed the challenges of weight gain due to autoimmune issues and how they learned to connect body positivity with broader liberation movements.
I Love My Body -- Elle Baez
Q: Elle, how did you get from being bullied to expressing your body positivity openly?
Elle shared a journey filled with challenges that included overcoming bullying and discovering her voice through music, which eventually led her to embrace her identity as a body positivity advocate.
Rejecting Diet Culture Through The Science Of Less -- Tiana Dodson
Q: What do you think joy is?
Joy is a feeling of pleasure where time sort of stops, and everything feels like it belongs in this moment.
Some Extra Fat Joy: 10 Qs with Kate Manne
Q: What would a dream job be other than the job you have now?
I would love to be a food writer, connecting food experiences to culture and class.

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