Making It Awkward

By Jessica Wilson, MS RDSociety & Culture

Making It Awkward episodes

December 28, 2023 My Body, ages 4-10. It was too much and very awkward.
Jessica shares the story of her body from 4-10yo. She shares how her body was (mis)treated by the medical establishment and also how one sentence from her dad influenced the way she felt about her body. This is tied together with the intro to her becoming a dietitian
17 min
December 14, 2023 Books...But Make it Awkward, with Shana and Maya
Romance novels can be awkward. Romance reviewers Shana and Maya join Jessica to discuss their love for the genre and why we all deserve a happy ending. They also give recommendations for those looking for a romance starter gift.

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Follow Jessica on Instagram @jessicawilson.msrd and TikTok @byjessicawilson

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Jessica's book: It's Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies

Smart Bitches Trashy Books

Shana

⁠You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty⁠

Talia Hibbert's Brown sisters series https://www.goodreads.com/series/271642-the-brown-sisters

Cowboys of California https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/series/5CR/cowboys-of-california

Jackie Lau https://jackielaubooks.com/books/one-bed-for-christmas/

https://marybalogh.com/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29415186-beautiful-wreck

39 min
December 07, 2023 "#bannedbodies--AI's Social Media Discrimination with Jen McLellan"
Jessica talks with Jen McLellan, about her recent experience getting banned by Meta on both of her Instagram and Facebook accounts. Jen is a certified birth educated, author and founder of Plus Size Birth and host of the Plus Mommy podcast. They discuss the impact of AI discrimination on social media and who will be most impacted by this. Jen shares her call to action to address this.

You can contact the show at [email protected]

Follow Jessica on Instagram @jessicawilson.msrd and TikTok @byjessicawilson

You can watch this episode at https://www.youtube.com/@MakingItAwkwardPod

How to support this podcast?

Follow/subscribe, rate and review!

Jessica's book: It's Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies

Jen's ⁠Instagram reel

https://plussizebirth.com/

https://plusmommy.com/jessica-wilson/

https://plusmommy.com/ai-size-discrimination/

29 min
November 30, 2023 Jen Jacobs, Editor Extraordinaire
Jessica and Making It Awkward editor, Jen Jacobs, reflect on the podcast thus far and look to future episodes. They talk about which topics have gotten the most interest and how the editing process works between them.

Jen also threw in a clip of Lexi that Jessica hadn't heard before.

Find Jen! Jenrjacobs.com

Whitney trotter https://whitneytrotter.com/work-with-me/

You can contact the show at [email protected]

Follow Jessica on Instagram @jessicawilson.msrd and TikTok @byjessicawilson

You can watch this episode at https://www.youtube.com/@MakingItAwkwardPod

How to support this podcast?

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Buy Jessica's book It's Always Been Ours.
21 min
November 22, 2023 Babe, have you eaten today? With @yourdietitianbff
Registered dietitian and social media content creator Clara Nosek, known to many as @yourdietitianbff, talks with Jessica about her journey to become a dietitian and how she started creating engaging content on social media. She shares her favorite creations and the feedback she has received. Clara also talks about her upcoming program called 'Do Not Disturb,' which will provide daily reminder texts to help people prioritize their eating.

Whitney Trotter's website

Clara Nosek's website

You can contact the show at [email protected]

Follow Jessica on Instagram @jessicawilson.msrd and TikTok @byjessicawilson

You can watch this episode at https://www.youtube.com/@MakingItAwkwardPod

How to support this podcast?

Follow/subscribe, rate and review!

Jessica's book: It's Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies
43 min
November 17, 2023 I Asked My Dad About Dehumanization
Jessica talks with her dad about his thoughts about and experience with dehumanization, especially in the 1950s and 60s. She asked him for this conversation because for the last 6 weeks of war between Israel and Palestine news outlets have been talking about people–both dead and alive–like a simple math equation. People with full, beautiful lives are reduced to a digit, sometimes a decimal or even a percentage.

You can contact the show at [email protected]

Follow Jessica on Instagram @jessicawilson.msrd and TikTok @byjessicawilson

You can watch this episode on Spotify and at https://www.youtube.com/@MakingItAwkwardPod

How to support this podcast? Follow/subscribe, rate and review!

Buy Jessica's book It's Always Been Ours.

18 min
November 10, 2023 Is Non-binary Identity a 3rd Gender Category?; USPATH Conference Reflections
Making It Awkward went to USPATH and things got awkward a few times. Jessica sits down with Isaac, Gus Klein, and Elijah Castle to reflect on their experiences at the USPATH 2023 conference. They critique the shortfalls of the oft used framing of gender affirming surgery as life saving care, discuss the emergence of non-binary identity as a third gender category and talk about what's next for them in trans healthcare.

You can contact the show at [email protected]

Follow Jessica on Instagram @jessicawilson.msrd and TikTok @byjessicawilson

You can watch this episode on Spotify and at https://www.youtube.com/@MakingItAwkwardPod

How to support this podcast?

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Buy Jessica's book It's Always Been Ours.

33 min
November 01, 2023 The Research on BMI and Gender Affirming Care with Elijah Castle
Researcher Elijah Castle joins Jessica to talk about the research landscape for BMI and gender affirming surgeries and what it (doesn't) show us. They discuss weight stigma, the savior complex of some surgeons, and what they are hoping to hear at the USPATH conference.

You can contact the show at [email protected]

Follow Jessica on Instagram @jessicawilson.msrd and TikTok @byjessicawilson

You can watch this episode on Spotify and at https://www.youtube.com/@MakingItAwkwardPod

How to support this podcast?

Follow/subscribe, rate and review!

Buy Jessica's book It's Always Been Ours.
34 min
October 20, 2023 What Makes Something News? With Lindsay Lee Wallace
Jessica explores how something gets to be news with freelance journalist Lindsay Lee Wallace. Jessica also learns why Lindsay's article about Jessica and her book was not accepted for publication.

Find more of Lindsay's work here, and find her tweeting too much here. Her piece about fatphobia and top surgery is expected on SELF in November.

You can contact the show at [email protected]

Follow Jessica on Instagram @jessicawilson.msrd

You can watch this episode at https://www.youtube.com/@MakingItAwkwardPod and on Spotify.

Buy Jessica's book
44 min
October 12, 2023 Alison Pill is Making it Awkward in Film and TV
This week Jessica chats with Alison Pill about her work making it awkward and building a collective. The two also reminisce on how they became unlikely friends.This week's dietitian segment is about what happened when Jessica's UPF experiment was over.

Learn more about ⁠Room Tone⁠

Mug artist mentioned by Alison from @maybell.eequay

You can contact the show at ⁠[email protected]⁠Follow Jessica on Instagram @jessicawilson.msrd

You can watch this episode at ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MakingItAwkwardPod⁠ and on Spotify.
37 min

About Making It Awkward

From the publisher's feed

What's going on with health and food policy right now? Each week dietitian and author Jessica Wilson shares her conversations with experts in their field or on their farm and figures out how we got here and why. Jessica has followed the ultra-processed food hysteria to trad wife pipeline and the direct path from COVID conspiracies to RFK Jr to the current administration.