Slow Like Snails: Virgie Tovar Returns (Part 1) on Normative Timelines, Letting Go of Control & Happiness Research
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This week’s conversation is with Virgie Tovar: author, activist and one of the nation's leading experts on weight-based discrimination and body image. She holds a Master's degree in Sexuality Studies with a focus on the intersections of body size, race and gender. She is a contributor for Forbes) and she’s written several books. Her podcast, Rebel Eaters Club), is now in Season 3 and is Transmitter Media's first original production. Virgie has been featured by the New York Times), BBC, MTV, Al Jazeera, NPR, and many more. We met a few years ago through our mutual friend Isabel Foxen Duke and I’m lucky to call her a friend. This is her second appearance on the podcast. We recorded a conversation last summer and I’ve been eager to talk to her again ever since. We talked over Zoom for two hours and our conversation covered dressing rooms, letting go of a normative timeline, control, markers of success, happiness research, and more.

Show Notes:

• Follow Virgie on the Web) | Instagram)

• Check out Virgie's Books) | Podcast: Rebel Eaters Club)

• David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water" speech) at Kenyon College

• The Vox podcast episode) I mention about sea shells & mollusks

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