Hello beautiful people! We have a real return to the podcast with an updated setup, updates on life, discussing my disgust for the bezos wedding, and diving deep on fatphobia, the recent rise in rhetoric, it’s connection to conservatism and white supremacy. How we can rebel against the empire by radically accepting our bodies and taking up literal and figurative space. I’ve also got a tarot reading for the week ahead, seems like some of us need to take the training wheels off, use our voice, and follow our hearts!

babblings will be out every Monday of July and August, make sure your subscribed somewhere all the places you can get babblings are linked below.

0:00 into/life catch up

8:35 babblings update

12:47 besoz wedding

16:40 Tarot for the week ahead

26:39 body image

35:06 conservatism, religion, incels, skinnytok

38:45 fatphobia roots in racism & history

46:12 deconstructing internalized fatphobia

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References:

Juxtaposing contested bodies: What can be learned from the politics of weightism and of women’s exclusion

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/21604851.2024.2361545?needAccess=true

Fat as a neoliberal epidemic: Analyzing fat bodies through the lens of political epidemiology

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/21604851.2021.1906524?needAccess=true

‘Fatphobia’ a form of oppression, says philosopher Kate Manne

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/01/fatphobia-form-oppression-says-philosopher-kate-manne

**“Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia,” by Sabrina Strings, book review**

https://csw.ucla.edu/2020/11/23/fearing-the-black-body-the-racial-origins-of-fat-phobia-by-sabrina-strings-nyu-press-2019/