Making It Awkward

By Jessica Wilson, MS RDSociety & Culture

Making It Awkward episodes

September 22, 2023 Ultra-Processed Parenting; Formula Feeding with Kent Thomas and Dr. Natalie Ingraham
Natalie Ingraham, PhD, MPH and Kent Thomas get into the realities of feeding formula to infants and share their own experiences of queer and trans conception and parenting. We discussed last week's conversation with Dr. Robert Lustig and what that might mean to families with two working parents.

Kent Thomas

Natalie Ingraham

Nova classification with infant formula as UPF

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41 min
August 31, 2023 But What IS an Ultra-Processed Food? with Amy Fletcher
Can we clearly distinguish what makes something an ultra-processed food? Amy Fletcher tries to help Jessica figure out what makes a food ultra-processed and what that distinction means. Jessica also details the rules for her 30 days of eating 80% of her diet from ultra-processed food.

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40 min
August 24, 2023 Feeling Aligned in Queer Fashion, with Mahlah Catline
Meet Mahlah! They're a trans-nonbinary model who created their own clothing brand to center queer and trans people. We talk queer aesthetics and they're the first guest to answer audience questions. Also: what's up with news coverage of processed foods?!

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35 min
August 17, 2023 "Be the unexpected"
Jessica's dad has a request for listeners. In this episode Jessica talks to her dad about why she started this podcast and gets his feedback. They talk about what it's like to be the only Black person in the room and talk about how they've both made it awkward.

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21 min
July 22, 2023 Introducing Making It Awkward!
Dietitian and author Jessica Wilson is finding ways to create institutional change by making it awkward and finds joy and laughter along the way. From the dietetics field, to trans care to publishing she'll take listeners backstage at conferences and meetings for an in depth and close up look at what it looks like to create new paths.

Join Jessica Wilson weekly as she shares her stories and talks with guests about times they have made situations awkward in order to change institutions starting August 16th.

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About Making It Awkward

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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.