We are over the moon to welcome Elderqueer & Lamplight Space founder MEG BRADBURY to the show today to talk about ED recovery, Aging as a Queer, Orthorexia, Punk & MORE. 

 

Find Meg online @elder_queer @lamplight.space

 

Social and Racial Justice Centered Anti-Diet / Body Diversity Awareness Work Recommendations

 

The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

Body Respect by Lindo Bacon & Lucy Aphramor

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

A Hunger So Wide & So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women’s Eating Problems by Becky Thompson

A Clinician’s Guide to Gender Affirming Care by Sand C. Chang, Anneliese A. Singh, & lore m. dickey

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

Journeys of Embodiment at the Intersection of Body & Culture: The Developmental Theory of Embodiment by Niva Piran

My Grandmother’s Hands Racialized Trauma & the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts & Bodies by Resmaa Menakem, MSW LICSW SEP

Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat by Stephanie Covington Armstrong

Controlled by Neesha Arter 

 

Amazing POC mentors, teachers, and activists in this work:

Sonya Renee Taylor @thebodyisnotanapology

Gloria Lucas @nalgonapositivitypride

Angela Braxton-Johnson @angelabj1poet

Ilya Parker @ decolonizingfitness

king yaa @mxkingyaa

Aaron Flores @aaronfloresrdn

Syd Yang @releasebulimia

Shilo George @shilogeorge

Melissa Carmona @the_spanglish_therapist

Sand Chang @herdrsand

Melissa Toler @melissadtoler

Desiree Adaway @desireeadaway

Sonalee Rashatwar @thefatsextherapist

 

SO SO many more!