The fat liberation podcast that holds the rage and the joy
Join host Sophia Apostol in her acclaimed, global top 2% podcast. Each episode brings you an honest conversation between Sophia and another fat person on how to flourish in an anti-fat world.
Episode 52 with Tracey Lindeman
Tracey Lindeman’s (she/her) experience with decades of period pain and the complicated, frustrating, and futile-feeling process of getting an endometriosis diagnosis led her to writing “Bleed: Destroying the Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care.” Tracey and Sophia share their own unique experiences of moving through the medical system’s anti-fat bias and misogyny, and Tracey offers two suggestions for how we can better advocate for ourselves in any medical situation.
Episode 51 with Angela Braxton-Johnson
Angela Braxton-Johnson (her/she) shares her journey through dieting, 12-step programs, eating disorder out-patient treatment, and finally to Body Trust and liberation in her 50s. Using poetry to put her experiences into words, Angela reads two of her poems, gifting us with their raw beauty and power.
Episode 50 with Amanda Laird
A counter-culture thinker since childhood, Amanda Laird (she/her) shares the journey she’s taken to follow a different path. From sewing her own period pads as a teen to hosting the popular podcast “Heavy Flow” to building her new business venture, slow & steady studio, Amanda is committed to advancing the feminine economy and exploring the question, ‘what is enough?’
Episode 49 with Kelly Diels
Kelly Diels (she/her) makes it her mission to support culture makers. She’s disrupting the norms of extractive capitalism by shining a light on the harms caused by traditional sales & marketing tactics. She offers an alternative where we can focus on vision, consent, and deepening relationships. And how we can make both money and justice. Recently diagnosed with lipedema, Kelly shares how health is connected to culture-making, too.
Episode 48 with Rabbi Dr. Minna Bromberg
With the creation of Fat Torah, Rabbi Dr. Minna Bromberg (she/her) shows people how their religious & spiritual lives can be a liberatory space. Minna broke up with diet culture at 16, but it was when she became a rabbi that she began to write and speak about fat liberation within the Jewish community. She shares how the stories from the Torah and Bible can be read as liberationist, how belonging can be derailed by unconscious bias, and how joy is a spiritual obligation in the Jewish faith.
Episode 47 with Pam Luk
Kids shouldn’t be stopped from playing their favourite sports because they can’t find active wear. Committed to helping kids thrive and not experience the negative impacts of having to leave their teams, their friends, and experience weight-stigmatizing clothing practices at a young age, Pam Luk (she/her) is determined to change the children’s apparel landscape with her company, Ember & Ace.