Generation Body Positive

Generation Body Positive

By Cate NavarreteSociety & Culture
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Generation Body Positive episodes

  • Stephanie Ng

    Mental health, body image, and podcasting — all things PhD student and nonprofit founder Stephanie Ng discuss with Cate on this week’s episode. They discuss starting Body Banter, creating space for mental health and body image advocacy in Hong Kong, pursuing the aforementioned causes in academia, and the power of storytelling.

    51 min
  • My eating disorder journey
    Welcome to my first solo episode! For the first time ever, you’ll hear my story start to finish-ish. I’m getting honest about my experience with body image growing up, developing two eating disorders, navigating multiple attempts at recovery, and starting my advocacy work.
    58 min
  • Maryam Faisal
    South Asian and Muslim eating disorder recovery activist Maryam Faisal joins Cate on this week’s episode to discuss the onset of her eating disorder and subsequent recovery, navigating the financial burden of recovery, creating and leading a nonprofit as a teen, and her other means of advocacy work (including Body Positive Alliance.)
    51 min
  • Mary Fashik
    Lebanese-born, queer disability rights activist Mary Fashik joins Cate on this week’s episode to discuss navigating disability advocacy, workplace discrimination, identity-based imposter syndrome, the importance of intersectionality, and her experience working with (and interviewing) Stacey Abrams.
    1 hr 11 min
  • Isabella Amador

    Isabella Amador, Body Positive Alliance Director of Programming, joins Cate on the first episode of season three. They discuss navigating body image at predominantly white institutions, the binge and restrict cycle, teen advocacy, and appearing on “Nick News.”

    1 hr 9 min
  • Isabella Amador

    Isabella Amador, Body Positive Alliance Director of Programming, joins Cate on the first episode of season three. They discuss navigating body image at predominantly white institutions, the binge and restrict cycle, teen advocacy, and appearing on “Nick News.”

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    1 hr 9 min
  • Kaysha Thomas
    Black eating disorder recovery specialist and pilates instructor Kaysha Thomas joins Cate on this week’s episode to discuss how trauma impacts body image, eating disorders in the Black community, implementing exercise into recovery, Black body ideals versus Eurocentric standards, and why she endorses body liberation.
    52 min
  • Caroline Rhodes
    Body shaming, collaborating with Project HEAL, and White Greek Life — all things former Division I athlete and eating disorder recovery advocate Caroline Rhodes discuss with Cate on this week’s episode. They discuss leading Club HEAL at William and Mary College, going to in-patient treatment, navigating eating disorder recovery as an athlete, and promoting eating disorder awareness at the collegiate level.
    1 hr 25 min
  • Makahla Jackson
    Black disability and healthcare advocate Makahla Jackson joins Cate on this week’s episode to discuss the intersection of race and disability, ways the American healthcare system fails marginalized folks, how to self-advocate at the doctor’s office, and making space for diversity within the writing community.
    49 min
  • Georgia Sky
    Content creator, actress, and body acceptance advocate Georgia Sky (aka @bawdyqueen) joins Cate on this week’s episode. They discuss colorism, racism, and fatphobia in the entertainment industry, the co-option of body positivity, allyship to body politic movements, and why body diversity in the media is crucial.
    1 hr 10 min

About Generation Body Positive

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Cate Navarrete is a 19-year-old college student, non-profit director, and activist passionate about body positivity. On Generation Body Positive, Cate dissects identity, diet culture, body image, and…