quarantine

5.12 Playing Indoor Sports with @smugliberal

In this episode, we’re talking about what Judy Blume would call Love and other Indoor Sports ;) 

Bookclub:

Fearing the Black Body / Black Owned Bookstores / bookclub webpage

If you feel like you missed the train on the bookclub, don’t worry! We’ve got the next few weeks for you to catch up using the book club page on our website! Then, for the final episode of our Staying In series, we’re going to have on a special guest to talk about the book in full! It’s going to be very… VERY good. We hope you’ll join us! You still have time to get the book!

Patreon Drive:

Join Team Paisley Mumu in the next month to be part of our BABYSITTERS CLUB. That means weekly lives with Sophie giggling at a chapter, special shoutout next episode, group crafts, and maybe even more :) Make sure to join before Sunday to get that exclusive stream link! 

The Meat of It: 

Alex @smugliberal / Superfat episode / Mailbag episode / Fat Camp episode / Fat History Patreon Miniseries / Starring Sally J Friedman as Herself / Jezebel article / Summer Sisters / Sqirl Controversy / Reply All Episode The Mold & The Beautiful / Satsuma Street on Etsy / A Tree Grows in Brooklyn / Floodpath / Revolutionary Yiddishland / Me & White Supremacy / The 5th Season / “Chav” tiktok  

Call to Action: 

Watch The Black Power Mixtape on Amazon and donate to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. This CTA comes to us from this week’s guest Alex, who says, “Many of my professors formerly worked for the fund, and I feel really strongly about what they do and the infrastructure they already have in place to make a significant impact with their fund.” 

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5.11 Eating In with Eliza Khinsoe!

Today, we’re talking about FOOD and COOKING while in quarantine with podcaster, nutrition counselor, and COOK Eliza Khinsoe. 

Bookclub:

Fearing the Black Body / Black Owned Bookstores / bookclub webpage

  • From Yeli: The biggest idea or theme that stuck with me throughout the entirety of the book was the way that storytelling and media perpetuated so many racist, fatphobic ideals. From the Renaissance paintings in the first chapter to the news stories in the Epilogue, these horrible ideas have been spread in very insidious ways that are still alive and thriving. Something that was particularly shocking to me in the Epilogue is how Dr. Strings mentions that “The medical field has been the most recent institution to enter the fray” of fatphobia and diet culture. It’s extremely difficult for me to imagine a world where doctors and medicine overall isn’t completely engrained in dieting and being your smallest self. There is also definitely a connection between medicine being so fatphobic and Black women being more at-risk of not being believed or being misdiagnosed in medical settings. As someone who wants to write and tell stories for a living, I have a lot of journaling to do regarding storytelling and the ways that my own storytelling is complicit or upholds anti-Black racism and fatphobia, and how to dismantle that.

  • If you feel like you missed the train on the bookclub, don’t worry! We’ve got the next few weeks for you to catch up using the book club page on our website! Then, for the final episode of our Staying In series, we’re going to have on a special guest to talk about the book in full! It’s going to be very… VERY good. We hope you’ll join us! You still have time to get the book!

Patreon Drive:

Join Team Paisley Mumu in the next month to be part of our BABYSITTERS CLUB. That means weekly lives with Sophie giggling at a chapter, special shoutout next episode, group crafts, and maybe even more :) Make sure to tune in this Sunday, August 23rd to read some Babysitters club with Sophie on Instagram live — every week after this one, it’ll be a special stream for our patrons! 

The Meat of It: 

Eliza Khinsoe / Pantry Party Pod / ASDAH / Salt Fat Acid Heat / Ruby Tandoh / London Center for Intuitive Eating / LCIE Insta / The Division of Responsibility in Feeding / Laura Thomas / Bub Appetit / Fat Foodies Facebook group / Make Paratha with Eliza / Weight Inclusive Guide to IBS / Julie Duffy Dillon / Whitney Catalano / Recipe Sophie’s going to try for a future Patreon Minisode 

Follow Eliza: @lizakhins / @lizakhinsoe / @fatbratsroll

***Use coupon code SAF for £50 off the Just Eat It & Raising Intuitive Eaters courses through the London Center for Intuitive Eating***

CALL TO ACTION: 

Last week your call to action was to learn about housing justice, and how it’s a part of anti-racism and Black Liberation. This week, we’re asking you to extend that knowledge to the #NoBodyIsDisposable Campaign. From their site, 

“Disabled people, fat people, elders, and people with AIDS or other illnesses are being specifically targeted for denial of life-saving care during care rationing. These triage policies disproportionately target people of color, poor folks, immigrants, queer and trans folks, incarcerated and homeless folks, and others already considered disposable by capitalist, white supremacist society.

We say NO! People of color and disabled people deserve to live — EUGENICS WILL NOT HAPPEN ON OUR WATCH!” 

To support the campaign, complete these three steps:

 1) Sign the campaign’s open letter to care providers and hospitals. 

2) Use their provided links to contact your government officials. 

3) SPREAD THE WORD about #NoBodyIsDisposable with a solidarity selfie — find out more about that on nobodyisdisposable.org

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Editing and Sound Design by Laila Oweda.

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5.8 destroying the covid-19 fat joke w/ YrFatFriend

Click here for a transcript of this episode.

In this episode, we’re talking about FAT JOKES THAT ARE ON OUR LAST NERVE IN QUARANTINE TIMES feat. our fave recurring anon guest, Your Fat Friend.

PATREON DRIVE!

Join Team Paisley Mumu in the next month to be part of our BABYSITTERS CLUB. That means weekly lives with Sophie giggling at a chapter, special shoutout next episode, group crafts, and maybe even something special in the mail ;) 

BOOKCLUB:

Fearing the Black Body / Black Owned Bookstores / bookclub webpage

  • From Laila:

  • From Lynn:

    • Listen to the School House Rock song “The Great American Melting Pot

    • In this Chpt we learned that the phrase “The Great American Melting Pot” originally referred to white Anglo Saxon Europeans immigrating to the U.S. and having babies with one another, melding together their “most attractive” (according to white supremacy) features and creating an attractive crop of white Americans.

      • Journal:

        1) Did you learn about “The Great American Melting Pot” in History class? What did your class talk about?

        2) How does School House Rock paint the idea of the melting pot? What do they focus on in this song?

        3) Is School House Rock propaganda? lol but like really is it?

        3) How did you feel reading this Chapter? I know for me, I felt both icky (about history I hadn’t learned) and repulsed (by the hoops Eugenicists were taking to qualify their anti-Black racism. Use the rest of your time to journal about what made you feel how and why!

    • From Yeli:

      • This week, Yeli is challenging fellow non-Black immigrants to journal about immigration and how the process is in relationship with racism and upholding colonization.

        • How can we as immigrants take up space in North America while acknowledging that we benefit from stolen land?

        • How do we engage in dismantling systems of oppression against Black communities?

        • How do we still benefit from these systems that also oppress us?

        • What is our responsibility to grapple with the violence that has occurred on the land we have made a home in?

  • For next week, Read Chapter 7!

THE MEAT OF IT:

Your Fat Friend @yrfatfriend / Season 4 ep / 7 Ways to Uproot Your Anti-Fat Bias / The False Safety of Listening and Learning / How to Love a Fat Person / Find more of Your Fat Friend’s writing here 

CALL TO ACTION: SUPPORT THE BLACK AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES OF CHICAGO

You have probably heard about the extreme violence the US government is deploying on Portland protestors. The president announced on July 20th that he was expanding this “federal crackdown” to other major cities, notably Chicago. Chicago obviously has a much larger population of Black and Indigenous people than Portland — and we need to come together with solidarity and support. 

There are a lot of resources out there to learn and contribute to. I want to point you to the Chi-Nations Youth Council — follow their instagram to WITNESS what is happening in Chicago; if you’re in Chicago, show up to their rallies if you’re able, and if not, contribute by sharing their info and donating to their paypal. 

And to our Black/Indigenous fatmily members in Chicago and elsewhere, stay safe. We love you. 

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5.2 Keeping Kind

**CW: In this episode, we will be discussing some specifics of resurfacing disordered eating behavior and thoughts**

Click here for a transcript of this episode.

In this episode, Sophie talks with Whitney Catalano of the Trust Your Body Project about how the pandemic and quarantine and general worldly upheaval can have repercussions for anyone who’s felt pressure to change the way they’ve eaten in the past. 

Anti-racist bookclub: Fearing the Black Body / Black Owned Bookstores 

The Meat of It: Whitney Catalano / Christy Harrison / Food Pysch podcast / The Truth about COVID-19 and Weight / Trust Your Body Project / Fat Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes / National Bail Out Fund

THIS WEEK’S ACTION ITEM: Listen to Black Trans Women. 

From Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project, “Black trans women experience violence, trauma, and deep losses across our community every single day. We know what we need to survive, to thrive, and to create the world we’re all fighting for. It is time to invest not only in the solutions, but the actual people that have shaped & sharpened the solutions we need based on our lived experiences. We are capable & competent enough to take care of our own, we just need the resources to do so.” Read the full statement in response to the murder of Muhlaysia Booker.  

Watch this webinar on State & Gender Violence in Black Communities. DM us when you start to hold yourself accountable. Follow TGIJPjustice on instagram, post about them in your story, and tag us so we can repost

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