Happy Monday!! I hope everyone had a good long weekend and spent time with people that bring them joy! As we close out on the controversial season of love island it’s got me thinking… What does it mean to be authentically yourself? How do we identify if we’re being real or not? I briefly touch on some current events but want to redirect you to the resources and links below where smarter people give you all the deets ;) grab a drink, take a seat, and let’s babble!

Time Stamps:

0:00 intro

2:44 being an anxious introvert

7:59 managing anxiety with confidence

9:05 tarot reading for your week ahead

24:27 current events and diversifying the media you consume

35:01 the importance of historical context clues

38:27 LOVE ISLAND CHAT!

42:40 the cierra of it all

44:47 how to be authentic

Go Deeper:

All the mentioned links, references, resources & more: https://babblings.substack.com/p/you-arent-living-authentically-because

Links:

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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

More babblings:

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@babblings20

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/

Hello everyone! This episode is part of a larger amalgamation of my feelings, thoughts, and others thoughts that I’ve been consuming recently related to the series of conflicts happening globally. Think of this as a multimedia scrapbook. I’ve included a short podcast I recorded last week, some journal thoughts, and my digital garden (tiktoks, youtube, podcasts) which you can access on my substack here:

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