The Fat Joy podcast is a joyful rebellion against anti-fatness.
Each episode is a conversation between host Sophia Apostol and another fat person about how to flourish in our fatphobic world. We’re exploring the harms, biases, and oppressions we’ve experienced while living in a world that marginalizes plus-size & fat bodies and promotes the lies of Diet Culture.
But most importantly, we’re sharing how we still dare to have the audacity and courage to reach towards joy and live our best lives while advocating for collective fat liberation & body positivity.
And, at the end of every episode, Sophia reads you a poem.
This is an adult content podcast with stories shared about experiences of diet culture, ableism, racism, capitalism, etc. So, there will be some swearing, too.
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About Sophia
Sophia (she/her/hers) is a Body Liberation Coach and is fat herself. She believes in the total inherent worthiness of fat people and is on a mission to help clients re-write the messaging that has told them they’re unworthy. Since 2014, she’s been helping clients explore body equanimity, unlearn systemic conditioning, and build the lives they’ve dreamed of.
The Fat Joy podcast is Sophia’s way of using her anger against the systemic lies that oppress fat people as an invitation to connect to and create deep joy for her community. This podcast is a love letter to anyone who has ever been told they are too much and not enough, all at the same time.
Sophia lives and works on the lands of the Anishinabewaki, Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga (Haudenosaunee), Wendake-Nionwentsïo, Attiwonderonk, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and she’s using her life and work to co-create a world where the politics of domination are no longer normal or possible. (h/t Kelly Diels for this wording)
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Fat Joy is a birthright. It is also a community of people joyfully rebelling against anti-fatness, weight stigma, and diet culture. We're choosing to live joyfully instead.