Episode 25 with Virginia Sole-Smith
Parenting In The Age Of Diet Culture
- with Virginia Sole-Smith
Show Notes
Caring for kids in the age of diet culture is hugely challenging because in all arenas of kids’ lives, they’re exposed to anti-fat bias. Virginia Sole-Smith (she/her) talks us through how to equip our children to recognize anti-fatness when they experience it at school, on their sports teams, and at the doctor’s office.
Virginia Sole-Smith is the author of Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture and The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America. As a journalist, she has reported from kitchen tables and grocery stores, graduated from beauty school, and gone swimming in a mermaid’s tail. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Scientific American and many other publications. She also writes the popular anti-diet newsletter Burnt Toast and hosts the Burnt Toast Podcast.
Please check out Virginia’s forthcoming book, Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, and her newsletter and podcast, Burnt Toast. She’s also on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.
The feminist romance writers Virginia mentioned that bring her joy are Jasmine Guillory, Talia Hibbert, and Helen Hoang.
This episode’s poem is Butter by Connie Wanek.
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