79: How Racism and Historical Trauma Manifest Themselves in Struggles with Food and Body Image

Gloria Lucas is a champion for eating disorder awareness and body positivity and the owner and founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride (NPP). NPP is not your regular body positive project. NPP is a Xicana-Brown*-Indigenous project that focuses on intersectional body positivity, eating disorders awareness, and cultural affirmation. NPP was started in 2014 by Gloria in Southern California with the goal of relating historical trauma, social oppression, and eating disorders. NPP believes that racism, colonialism, ableism, homophobia, (etc.,) are all factors that lead to violent relationships with food and the phenomenon of destitute body image in communities of color. NPP offers education, social media content, support groups, and an Etsy store.   In this episode, Gloria and I discuss: the racism that runs through the body positive movement, the issues women of color experience that can contribute to struggles with food and body image and how people in other groups can support the work that women are already doing to help women find peace with food and their bodies.    *In this context, Brown refers to the mixed descendants of the indigenous from (what is known today as) America.   Links mentioned in this episode: Gloria on Instagram: Nalgona Positivity Pride Support Gloria's work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nalgonapositivitypride Gloria's Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NalgonaPositiveShop A Hunger So Wide and So Deep by Becky Thompson