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. 

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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/

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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

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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Calvin Gilbert and Jessica introduce the upcoming series of episodes about BMI and gender affirming surgery for trans, non-binary and gender nonconforming people. The two of them recount the events that led up to a medical doctor being escorted out of their presentation on weight stigma and gender affirming care at the Trans Health Summit. They then talk about the next trans health conference and ways that Jessica can make things awkward there. 

You can find out more about Lyon Martin Community Health Services

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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.

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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 

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What can listeners take from Jessica’s conversation with Dr. Lustig? She looks at the interview through a historical lens and some possible present day applications. Jessica also shares feedback she’s gotten from listeners and from a few people working from UCSF.

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Lustig’s article in Frontiers: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2023.1098453/full

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