Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith

By Virginia Sole-Smith

What's Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith about?

Weekly conversations about how we dismantle diet culture and fatphobia, especially through parenting, health and fashion. (But non-parents like it too!) Hosted by Virginia Sole-Smith, journalist and author of THE EATING INSTINCT.

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Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith episodes:

05.02.2024
"Fat People Poop the Same Amount As You."
Today Virginia is chatting with Annie Nardolilli and Louisa Hall, of the band Griefcat. Their new album Late Stage Capitalism, dropped April 19 and explores how unbridled capitalism has invaded every facet of modern life, from workplace politics to interpersonal relationships,...
04.25.2024
“Good Athletes Control Their Weight."
It's the one year anniversary of FAT TALK, so we're celebrating with a special episode for you today: Virginia is reading Chapter 11! The title is “I Got Taller and Gymnastics Got Scarier.” That’s a quote from Camille, a 13-year-old...
04.18.2024
Can You Wear Birkenstocks with Skinny Jeans?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's time for your April Indulgence Gospel! Which we recorded in the same room! The banter should be more delightful than ever! Here’s what we’re getting into: What...
04.11.2024
We Are Not Seeking Closet Perfection.
Introducing the Unflattering x Burnt Toast Style Challenge! Corinne and Virginia are joined by Dacy Gillespie, stylist and author of the Unflattering newsletter to talk about why style challenges can feel like diets and what we're going to do differently. (No...
04.04.2024
Is Weight Loss Surgery the "Easy Way Out?"
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com/subscribe Welcome to Indulgence Gospel After Dark! It's time for your April Extra Butter! This month we’re answering a thorny...
03.28.2024
We Need a Fat American Girl Doll
Today Virginia is chatting with Mary Mahoney, co-host of the Dolls of Our Lives podcast, co-author of Dolls Of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl, and author of Landline. Dolls Of Our Lives is available in the Burnt Toast Bookshop! Don’t forget, you can...
03.21.2024
"Can I Want to Lose Weight for a Good Reason?"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's time for your March Indulgence Gospel! Corinne and Virginia are talking about their new favorite comfy jeans, Paleo waffles, and whether wanting to lose weight is...
03.14.2024
Is Not Shopping A Diet?
Today Virginia is chatting with Christyna Johnson (@encougagingdietitian on Instagram and TikTok). Christyna is a registered dietitian specializing in eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image work. She also talks a lot about the intersection of consumerism, diet culture and white...
03.07.2024
The Ballerina Farm of Kid Food Instagram
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com/subscribe Welcome to Indulgence Gospel After Dark! It's time for your March Extra Butter! This month we’re answering a reader question...
02.29.2024
Is "Mom Rage" Actually "Marriage Rage?"
Today Virginia is chatting with Lyz Lenz, author of the newsletter Men Yell at Me and the brand new book This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life. This American Ex-Wife is available in the Burnt Toast Bookshop! Don’t forget, you...
02.22.2024
It's Time for Book Gospel!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's time for your February Indulgence Gospel! Corinne is here. This month instead of the usual listener questions, we are going to tell you about a bunch...
02.15.2024
You Don't Have To Lose Weight to Improve Your Blood Sugar
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com Today Virginia is chatting with Wendy Lopez and Jessica Jones, founders of the beloved Food Heaven podcast and the brand new Diabetes Digital. To get all of the links and...
02.08.2024
When Fat Influencers Get Thinner
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com/subscribe Welcome to Indulgence Gospel After Dark! It's time for your February Extra Butter! Today we're talking about the strange new...
02.01.2024
Are Screens the New Sugar?
Today Virginia is chatting with Ash Brandin, a middle school teacher librarian better known as The Gamer Educator. Ash helps caregivers navigate screen time boundaries, to ensure it benefits the whole family. And we're going to talk about how screen time attitudes can...
01.25.2024
Does Sugar Weaken Your Immune System?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's time for your January Indulgence Gospel! Corinne is here. We’re getting into 1000 hours outside (is it a diet?), eating sugar when you're sick (does it...
01.18.2024
"We Only Like Change If It Makes Us Thin."
Welcome to the first ever LIVE episode of Burnt Toast! We recorded this on December 3, at Seattle’s Town Hall. This was the official end of the Fat Talk book tour, but I promise it’s not a regular book promo conversation....
01.11.2024
"You Cannot Fight Misogyny Without Fighting Fatphobia."
Today Virginia is chatting with author and feminist philosopher Kate Manne, about her new book Unshrinking: How To Face Fatphobia. Kate is also an associate professor of philosophy at Cornell University and author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny and Entitled: How Male...
01.04.2024
Fat People Don't All Look Alike.
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com/subscribe Welcome to Indulgence Gospel After Dark! It’s time for your January Extra Butter episode. This month, we’re doing a...
12.28.2023
"I Can Eat Without Somebody Judging Me Now."
Burnt Toast is on winter break this week, so we're rerunning a favorite conversation from last year, with author Lyz Lenz about divorce and diet culture. This conversation was inspired in part by a piece Virginia wrote in fall of 2022...
12.21.2023
Fat People Don't Need Fat Hammers
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's time for your December Indulgence Gospel! Corinne is here. We’re getting into fat boots, fat travel challenges, and ofc, diet culture during the holiday season. We...
12.14.2023
It's Time to Free the Jiggle
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com Today Virginia is chatting with Jessie Diaz-Herrera. Jessie is a body affirming dancer, health and wellness influencer, and fitness enthusiast. You might know her on Instagram as @curveswithmoves, or...
12.07.2023
"We Needed To See a YA Heroine with PCOS."
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com Today Virginia is chatting with Crystal Maldonado, a YA author who writes inclusive rom-com novels about fat brown girls. If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review...
11.30.2023
The Bonkers TikTok Diet Nobody Needs
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com/subscribe Welcome to Indulgence Gospel After Dark! It's time for your November Extra Butter! We are dissecting 75 Hard (it's not...
11.16.2023
"It Felt Like I Could Never Be Healthy Enough."
Today Virginia is chatting about body autonomy, diet culture, and chronic health conditions, with Leigh Kamping-Carder, who writes The Heart Dialogues. If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber to get all...
11.09.2023
Not Every Piece of Nutrition Advice is B******t
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's time for your November Indulgence Gospel! Corinne is here. We’re getting into fat fashion, fat hair, and Fat Friends. Plus a divorce update from Virginia. If...
11.02.2023
"This is Not a Book About Body Positivity. This is Not a Book About Ballet."
Today Virginia is chatting with Vashti Harrison, number one New York Times-bestselling author and illustrator of Little Leaders, Little Dreamers, and Little Legends — about her newest picture book, Big. AND - we have signed copies of Big and several of...
11.01.2023
I Couldn't Let You Miss the 45 Minute Poop Song
Today Virginia is chatting with musician and comedian Farideh. Her new album, “The Mother Load” came out on October 24 and we're obsessed! If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt...
10.26.2023
Where Are All the Motherhood Songs
Today Virginia is chatting with musician and comedian Farideh. Her new album, “The Mother Load” came out on Tuesday and we're obsessed! If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast...
10.19.2023
"We Have Only Recently Acknowledged That Female Athletes Need to Eat."
Today Virginia is chatting with Christine Yu, author of Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes. We dive deep into misogyny in sports science, reclaiming carbs, and conduct a little Sports Bra Science. If you order Up to Speed...
10.12.2023
"Living in a Fat Body is Beautiful and Complicated Sensory Experience."
Today Virginia is chatting with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of Big Girl. Originally from Harlem, Mecca is now an associate professor of English at Georgetown University and lives in Washington DC. She is also the author The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist...
10.05.2023
Not Wearing Pants Yet
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's time for your September/October Indulgence Gospel! Corinne is here. We’re getting into the tyranny of portion control, meal trains, and whether Virginia's house is really that...
09.28.2023
The Fat Theater Kids Survival Guide
Today Virginia is chatting with Katy Geraghty. Katy is an actor in New York City, most recently seen as Little Red in Into The Woods on Broadway as well as the national tour. We asked Katy to come on the show, because...
09.21.2023
Sexting is Safer Sex
Today Virginia is chatting with Dr. Devorah Heitner, author of the brand new book, Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World. She’s also the author of Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World and...
09.14.2023
All the Gnomes Are Fat
Today Virginia is chatting with Phoebe Wahl, an award winning illustrator, surface designer, and author of several books, including the brand new illustrated young adult novel Phoebe’s Diary. If you order Phoebe’s Diary from the Burnt Toast Bookshop, you can get 10 percent off...
08.24.2023
Family Dinner SOS
Today Virginia is chatting with Amy Palanjian, creator of Yummy Toddler Food and author of the brand new cookbook, Dinnertime SOS: 100 Sanity-Saving Meals Parents and Kids of All Ages Will Actually Want to Eat. We get into what makes family dinner...
08.17.2023
"You Don't Have to Be Bleeding, You Could Just Not Want to Exercise."
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com t's time for your August Indulgence Gospel! Corinne is here. We’re getting into power lifting, fruit rage, menstrual taboos and YouTubers telling you how to eat. If...
08.10.2023
It’s Not Your Body, It’s the Towel.
Today Virginia is chatting with Mary Carney, the founder of Towel, a new size inclusive lifestyle brand. Because a towel that doesn't wrap around your body is just a classic example of anti-fat bias in action. If you want more...
08.03.2023
He Asked, "Why Can't You Draw Normal People?"
You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast about anti-fat bias, diet culture, parenting, and health. I am Virginia Sole Smith. Today I am chatting with Lindsey Guile. Lindsey is an Associate Professor of Art at Dutchess Community...
07.27.2023
Weeds Are Not a Moral Failing
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com Today Virginia is chatting with Anne Helen Petersen, author of four books and co-host of the Work Appropriate podcast, who also writes the newsletter Culture Study—and its...
07.20.2023
"I Don't Let My Son Eat Honey Nut Cheerios."
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's time for your July Indulgence Gospel! Corinne is here. We’re getting into power lifting, sugar-y breakfast cereals, long hair rules and lots of fat swim talk....
07.13.2023
The Problem Isn't Flaming Hot Cheetos, Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of our two-parter on Ultra Processed Foods! Virginia is chatting with Laura Thomas, PhD, a Registered Nutritionist who specializes in responsive feeding and anti-diet, body affirming nutrition. Her work centers on helping parents and families end...
07.06.2023
The Problem Isn't Flaming Hot Cheetos, Part 1.
Welcome to Part 1 of our two-parter on Ultra Processed Foods! Virginia is chatting with Laura Thomas, PhD, a Registered Nutritionist who specializes in responsive feeding and anti-diet, body affirming nutrition. Her work centers on helping parents and families end...
06.29.2023
"Do I Tell My Kids I'm On a Weight Loss Drug?"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's time for your June Indulgence Gospel! Corinne is here and we're celebrating our 100th episode. We've got answers to your questions about Ozempic, dahlias and leggings,...
06.22.2023
Where Are All the Guys? (In Eating Disorder Treatment)
Today Virginia is chatting with Kyle Ganson, PhD, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work who studies eating disorders in boys and young men. This is an episode a lot of you have been asking...
06.15.2023
"I've Been Writing Food Porn for a Year."
Today Virginia is chatting with Jo Piazza, best selling author, journalist, and podcast creator. You might know her from her awesome podcast Under the Influence, or her very excellent Substack Over the Influence. And her new book, co-authored with Christine Pride entitled...
06.08.2023
Everybody Is Paying To Be in the Same Parade
Today Virginia is chatting with Martinus Evans, the author of the brand new book Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run. He runs Slow AF Run Club, a running community for folks to run in...
06.01.2023
When Beauty Work is a Rational Survival Strategy
Today Virginia is chatting with Elise Hu, the author of the brand new book Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital, which explores the intersections of beauty culture and diet culture in South Korea. If you have ever purchased a sheet mask...
05.25.2023
The Myth of "Full Recovery"
Today Virginia is chatting with Cole Kazdin, author of What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety, which explodes a lot of the problems with our current eating disorder treatment system. Remember, if you order Cole's book (or...
05.18.2023
The Dream Is a Federal Fat Rights Law.
Today Virginia is chatting with fat rights advocate Tigress Osborn. Tigress is Chair of the Board of NAAFA, The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, and helping to lead the Campaign for Size Freedom, which just scored a huge victory in New York...
05.11.2023
Why Are Men and Viking Grandmas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's time for the May Indulgence Gospel! Instead of answering your questions this month, we're reading Virginia's hate mail. Buckle up! If you are already a paid subscriber,...

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Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith episodes:

"Fat People Poop the Same Amount As You."

“Good Athletes Control Their Weight."

Can You Wear Birkenstocks with Skinny Jeans?

We Are Not Seeking Closet Perfection.

Is Weight Loss Surgery the "Easy Way Out?"

We Need a Fat American Girl Doll

"Can I Want to Lose Weight for a Good Reason?"

Is Not Shopping A Diet?

The Ballerina Farm of Kid Food Instagram

Is "Mom Rage" Actually "Marriage Rage?"

It's Time for Book Gospel!

You Don't Have To Lose Weight to Improve Your Blood Sugar

When Fat Influencers Get Thinner

Are Screens the New Sugar?

Does Sugar Weaken Your Immune System?

"We Only Like Change If It Makes Us Thin."

"You Cannot Fight Misogyny Without Fighting Fatphobia."

Fat People Don't All Look Alike.

"I Can Eat Without Somebody Judging Me Now."

Fat People Don't Need Fat Hammers

It's Time to Free the Jiggle

"We Needed To See a YA Heroine with PCOS."

The Bonkers TikTok Diet Nobody Needs

"It Felt Like I Could Never Be Healthy Enough."

Not Every Piece of Nutrition Advice is B******t

"This is Not a Book About Body Positivity. This is Not a Book About Ballet."

I Couldn't Let You Miss the 45 Minute Poop Song

Where Are All the Motherhood Songs

"We Have Only Recently Acknowledged That Female Athletes Need to Eat."

"Living in a Fat Body is Beautiful and Complicated Sensory Experience."

Not Wearing Pants Yet

The Fat Theater Kids Survival Guide

Sexting is Safer Sex

All the Gnomes Are Fat

Family Dinner SOS

"You Don't Have to Be Bleeding, You Could Just Not Want to Exercise."

It’s Not Your Body, It’s the Towel.

He Asked, "Why Can't You Draw Normal People?"

Weeds Are Not a Moral Failing

"I Don't Let My Son Eat Honey Nut Cheerios."

The Problem Isn't Flaming Hot Cheetos, Part 2

The Problem Isn't Flaming Hot Cheetos, Part 1.

"Do I Tell My Kids I'm On a Weight Loss Drug?"

Where Are All the Guys? (In Eating Disorder Treatment)

"I've Been Writing Food Porn for a Year."

Everybody Is Paying To Be in the Same Parade

When Beauty Work is a Rational Survival Strategy

The Myth of "Full Recovery"

The Dream Is a Federal Fat Rights Law.

Why Are Men and Viking Grandmas