Episode 105 with Erica Joy
Food Joy And Creating with Community
Show Notes & Full Transcript
In this episode of the Fat Joy Creation Lab capsule collection, Sophia sits down with community organizer, baker, and spiritual practitioner Erica Joy (they/she) for a wide-ranging conversation about co-creation, identity, and what it means to build liberatory offerings without rushing the process.
Erica shares the story of co-creating Cosmic Healing with her sister (the multiple-person readings kay does are called "synastry") and also dives into Erica’s newest offering, Cooking Fulla Joy, a liberatory approach to food, cooking, and pleasure that actively divests from diet culture. Erica speaks beautifully about food as connection, nourishment, and joy, and why cooking support must be emotional, embodied, and communal, not prescriptive.
In this episode, we explore:
Co-creating with different people brings unexpected gifts
Creativity as leadership, organizing, and future-making
Food, cooking, and pleasure as liberatory practices
Building offerings from lived experience and integrity
The power of affinity spaces and creating what you needed but couldn’t find
This episode is a love letter to multi-passionate people, co-creators, and anyone longing to make something meaningful without having it all figured out first.
To learn more about how you can tap into your creativity and take an idea from napkin scribble to something alive in the world, check out the Fat Joy Creation Lab. We start on March 3, 2026!
Erica Joy is a Black, fat, queer, enby who is continually machete-ing The Hydra of cishetero + anti-Black fatphobic messaging that they've received since childhood. She has been planting and cultivating a field of liberation-centered evergreens + perennials that honor her + their communities. Erica has several creative passions that ebb and flow through life, and some that stay constant like baking and cooking. Their lifelong love for food, the kitchen, and cooking has led her to begin a set of offerings called Cooking Fulla Joy to support folks through their relationship with and practices of this major aspect of life.
General link to all things Cosmic Healing: https://linktr.ee/cosmichealingfam
Cooking Fulla Joy newsletter: https://comradery.co/cookingfullajoy
Email: cosmichealingfam@protonmail.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/itsericafullajoy
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