6.14 Anti Racist Ally

**CONTENT NOTE: This episode includes some details of anti-Black police violence** That part of the conversation happens about 5 minutes after the ad break if you’d like to skip it. 

In this episode, Sophie Williams aka Millennial Black joins OUR Sophie to talk about her new pocketguide Anti Racist Ally, an intro to activism & action.

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Mentioned in this episode: 

Sophie Williams / @officialmillennialblack  / COVID season ep with Sophie / Anti Racist Ally / Rebecca Petts Davies / Millennial Black the BOOK / Season 1 episode with Melissa Gibson / Natalie Hage airplane story / Sophie’s post on Blackness x Fatness / Poster pics / Sophie’s Ted Talk / Sofie Hagen / our ep with Sofie Hagen 

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6.6 Radical Belonging

NOTE: In March of 2022, several people spoke out about situations where Lindo Bacon caused harm to marginalized folks in the HAES & fat community. At SAF, we stand by those who chose to speak about their experiences. We ask that you, as well, listen & learn from those who are speaking out, and listen to this episode with a critical lens.

Please learn more by reading the following (& uplifting those who have been harmed); Marquisele Mercedes: “About HAES, Lindo, and Allyship”, “A Week Into The Lindo-pocalypse” / Lindley Ashline: “Movements, Missing Stairs and Lindo Bacon” / ASDAH: “Holding Lindo Bacon Accountable”

In this episode, Sophie sits down with Dr. Lindo Bacon to talk about their new book Radical Belonging.

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The Meat of It:

Dr. Lindo Bacon / Health at Every Size (HAES) / Body Respect / Radical Belonging / The Color of Law / Ceremony / @glamputee / Corissa @fatgirlflow / meme sophie mentions of kid trying so hard

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5.4 Centering Black Women

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In this episode, we’re talking with Sophie Williams, AKA OfficialMillennialBlack on Insta, about her upcoming book, not centering whiteness, and the love triangle between fatphobia, racism, and misogyny.

Bookclub: Fearing the Black Body / Black Owned Bookstores 

Here are some more questions and thoughts to guide your reading and reflection of the first two chapters of Sabrina String's Fearing the Black Body:

• First of all, I wanted to give you some thoughts on how to approach a more academic book, if you're new to or unfamiliar with this kind of reading! 1. If you run across words you don't know, feel free to look them up! Approaching a more academic text like this is a balance of looking things up and using context clues to noodle out what's going on and accepting you might not understand every sentence exactly. 2. Make sure you read the intro! It's a little dense, but it's a great layout of the overall argument the book will make and the plan for that argument, which helps me situate my reading and helps with those context clues. 3. Look at endnotes! They can be both fun, interesting, and helpful in exploring a text like this. Note 20, for example, gives you a handy list of other books about fatness to read. Endnotes can also give you more rich detail that the author wanted to share but doesn't quite fit in the sequential steps of the argument being made. 4. Don't hesitate to make notes of things, concepts, sentences you don't understand or don't remember and might be interested in further reading or googling of! I spent a little time looking at some of the artists mentioned in Chapter 1 on wikipedia and google images, for example. Okay, now questions - send us your answers to these, if you'd like to be featured!

• 1. Have you ever noticed a focus on "concerns over ascetics, not aesthetics" (p.63) in portrayals of the fatness or thinness of men? How might our modern imaginings of a lean, lanky academic/intellectual character play into this? (I hope this idea is tracked more throughout the book, it's a super interesting one!)

• 2. If you've ever wandered through a museum from art of this time period, or looked at it in books, have you ever been presented with this kind of lens? What are the general ways you've been taught to look at artworks that are missing a lens of racial analysis?

• 3. Can you sum up the arguments being made in chapters one and two in a few sentences?

• 4. How does it feel to view cultural attitudes towards fatness as having changed over time, instead of from within the current cultural moment which seeks to impose a universality on our fatphobia?

• Take a further look into the types of Renaissance paintings that Dr. Strings analyzes in Chapter 1. Then, take out a paper and draw yourself. Think about what you focus on, and why. 

• Journal about how art and storytelling play a role in perpetuating anti-Black racism in the Chapter 2. How has this changed from then till now? How has it remained the same? In what ways are we complicit?

Resources on “Womxn” vs “Women”: this twitter thread / this video on the origin of the phrase “women of color”  / the body is not an apology article / 

The Meat of It: Sophie Williams / Millennial Black / Insta post that started it all / Slay in Your Lane / All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave / Candice Brathwaite / Bizarre & Racist History of the bmi /  How we fail black patients’ pain / Nonwhite patients get less pain relief in US emergency rooms / post: how black people in the UK are disproportionately being affected by COVID / BAME Britains twice as likely to die from COVID / Govt Censorship on BAME report / how to cope if you're a black woman and feeling exhausted / the trevor project / pre-order millennial black 
Sophie’s picks: anti-racist ally / keeping up the momentum / for black women who are exhausted 

Call to Action: Read “What, to Black Lives, is the 4th of July?” by Antwan Herron.

Read, reflect, and share this piece over this weekend — the 4th. Remember that when we call July 4th “Independence Day,” who that Independence included. 

“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems [is] inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.” - Frederick Douglass 

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3.14 She's Got Faves 2k18

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In this week’s minisode, we’ll discuss Paddington 2(once again), the malleability of memes, and our 2018 faves.

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Mentioned in this episode:

A Lil Bite: Best of 2018

Music - Janelle Monae’s ‘Make Me Feel.” Nao’s ‘Saturn.”

Television Show -   Barry. Killing Eve. Pose.

Movie - Paddington 2. To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before.

Books - Circe by Madeline Miller. The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon.

Podcasts - The Dream. UnCivil. Reply All. Who? Weekly. (April’s fave clip here, starts 29:28)

Memes -  American Chopper Meme. This article in Vox about it. This criticism one, this Garfield one, this wholesome one. Sophie’s piece in The Verge about memes. Diddy on The Four

Twitter Follow - @nwalks.  @rachsyme. @jackieaina (and a great meme from her).

Skincare Product - Glossier Solution. Leo Oil. Drunk Elephant Night Serum.

Item of Clothing -  Gay Madewell shirts. Yellow Suit from Eloquii.

Luxurious Purchase - The Arcana. April’s Bedding.

Weed Item - Gold Flora. Beboe. PAX. Releaf Balm

Maria’s Corner - Maniac. The Good Place (older seasons on Netflix). Handmaid’s Tale. Arctic Monkey. Father John Misty. Ariana Grande. Gimlet’s Heavyweight. Homecoming. Ologies. BlackkKlansman. Wont You Be My Neighbor. A Quiet Place. Thunder Road.

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1.9 ROXANE GAY'S HUNGER

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TW: The memoir Hunger includes mentions of sexual assault and eating disorders which may be triggering to survivors.

This week, we discuss Roxane Gay’s Hunger, the ting goes skrah, and watermelon. Also covered: Sheer Mag, Lane Bryant, and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s scarves.

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Mentioned in this episode:

I’m Obsessed: Oprah Thicfrey. Ting Goes Skrah. Big Shaq Strikes Back. Maggie and Her Scarves. Nobody’s Baby by Sheer Mag. Suffer Me by Sheer Mag. Sheer Mag + Gentrification. Fat Women on Stage. Sheer Mag Album Review.Sheer Mag’s Album ‘Need To Feel Your Love.’

The Meat Of It: Hunger by Roxane Gay. Roxane’s Outlander Recaps. Guernica Interview. Elle Magazine Interview.

Ask A Fattie: Small Fat Definition. Small Fat Privilege. Rethinking the Spectrum of Fat. When Your Body Doesn’t Qualify. More on Super Fat Erasure.

It’s Okay, You Can Ask: The Watermelon in Question. People are Upset. The Lili Reinhart Incident. Is Your Costume Offensive? My Heroes.

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1.7 You've Got Mail!

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This week we discuss raising body positive children, dumb blonde jokes, and Marvin Gaye. Also, covered: advice for a bodyposi nurse, the prison of fashion, and “abundant” bodies.

This episode is sponsored by BizBabez and Dazey LA.

BizBabez is offering a discount to She’s All Fat listeners, so mention us when you apply and you’ll get half off your first month.

Go to Dazey LA and enter code SAF at checkout for 20% off on all Dazey brand items.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Marvin Gaye’s Rendition of the National Anthem

Eleanor and Park

Eleanor and Park Article on Eleanor's Perceived Fatness

Critique of Eleanor and Park’s Asian-American Representation

Asian & Asian-American Stereotypes in YA

Reductress Article on Fat Femme Beauty Standards

Sophie’s Bag from Dazey

Dazey #ShareYourSelfLove Video

Soph & April in Dazey Shirts

She’s All Fat Takeover Episode of Call Your Girlfriend

Who Is Stevie J

Kodak Black on Dark Skinned Black Women

Ava Duvernay’s “13th”

How To Talk So Kids Will Listen...And Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

Bustle Article on Raising Bodyposi Kids

Common Sense Media Article on Raising Bodyposi Kids

Descriptive Praise