Season 2, Episode 9 with Alison Rampa & Erica Chiseck
The Good Fat Camp
- Alison Rampa & Erica Chiseck
Show Notes
Spurned on by the Maintenance Phase podcast episode about the horror of fat camps, besties Alison Rampa (she/her/hers) and Erica Chiseck (she/her/hers) decided to redesign the experience of a fat camp into an actual fat-positive camp. Trophies for biggest cannonballs, gourmet s’mores, midriff-baring clothing, and telling anti-diet ghost stories around the campfire are all part of the experience of inviting women and women-identifying to take up space and reclaim the camp experience at Camp Roundup.
As a lifelong fat girl, Erica Chiseck is incredibly familiar with taking up space. An abortion activist, Democratic Precinct leader as well as a board member for the Cincinnati Women's March, Erica never considered being fat one of her centers of activism, but it has become clear in the last few years that simply existing non apologetically in a fat body is an act of resistance and rebellion.
Alison Rampa is a writer, teacher, actress, improviser and mom from Cincinnati Ohio. Alison currently teaches middle school English in Hamilton, Ohio by day and is co-owner and producer of a female-focused murder mystery dinner theater company, Unique Events Productions.
Please connect with Alison & Erica on the Camp Round up page, and sign up for Labor Day 2023!! And check out Jackie Molloy’s NPR article about Camp Roundup.
Sophia reads Don’t Hesitate by Mary Oliver on this episode.
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