Jo’s journey to loving her fat body

Jo McCawley, a Chicago-based ad tech rockstar, has been on a journey to love her body and joins Leah to talk about falling in love with her fat body after years of dieting and body shaming. We talk about body positivity, body neutrality, the pervasiveness of shame in our culture - particularly for women.

Trigger warning: Dieting, birth trauma, preeclampsia, medical fatphobia

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Show Notes

• Girls Rock Chicago
• Hello, I'm Fat by Lindy West
• Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
• #Very Fat Very Brave by Nicole Byers
• What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
• Maintenance Phase podcast
• Day Breaker (sober, morning dance parties)
• Preeclampsia information
• Tall camping stool for walking tours
• Fatness, Motherhood and the medical profession
• Jennifer Lee (2020) “You will face discrimination”: Fatness, motherhood, and the medical profession, Fat Studies, 9:1, 1-16, DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2019.1595289

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