My guest today is Clinical Counsellor, relationship therapist, and fat activist, Dawn Serra. Dawn offers trauma-informed, weight-neutral, radical mental health care, particularly for those in larger and marginalized bodies. I super enjoyed this conversation about fatphobia, anti-Blackness, ableism, disability, perimenopause, Ozempic and cultivating a kinder relationship with our ever-changing bodies.

 

Connect with Dawn at tendandcultivate.com

 

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Referenced in this episode

 

Mia Mingus, disability rights activist and contributor to Octavia's Brood with her story, Hollow

 

Gloria Lucas of Nalgona Positivity Pride 

 

Sabrina Strings and her book, Fearing the Black Body 

 

Da'Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast 

 

Sonalee Rashatwar @thefatsextherapist

 

Tressie McMillan Cottom, THICK and Other Essays

 

Culture Work on TikTok and Substack

 

Betty Martin

 

Dr. Asher Larmie, The Fat Doctor   (their Ozempic masterclass is listed here)

 

Zena Sharman, The Care We Dream of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health

 

Ep229: What it Feels Like For A Girl with Emelia Symington Fedy on sex and pressure

 

Ash of The Fat Lip - A Fat Liberation Podcast came up with the infinifat classification - details about the history are here:

--- https://fluffykittenparty.com/2021/06/01/fategories-understanding-smallfat-fragility-the-fat-spectrum/

--- https://cherrymax.medium.com/community-origins-of-the-term-superfat-9e98e1b0f201

 

Covid PSA:

 

WHO technical document

 

University of Bristol study

 

Elevator Covid transmission study

 

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