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Embodiment for the Rest of Us - Season 4, Episode 9: Rachel Fox

Jenn (she/they) and Chavonne (she/her) interviewed Rachel Fox (she/her) about her embodiment journey

Content Warning: Discussion of ableism, discussion of medical fatphobia, discussion of the multiple genocides occurring globally, discussion of intentional weight loss (including GLP-1 drugs)

Trigger Warnings:

This episode will use the word obesity throughout without being bleeped.

The captions for this episode can be found at https://embodimentfortherestofus.com/season-4/season-4-episode-9-rachel-fox/#captions

A few highlights:

14:00: Rachel shares her understanding of embodiment and her own embodiment journey

20:44: Rachel names her privileges and marginalizations

42:11: Rachel discusses how the pandemic has affected her embodiment practices

1:26:24: Rachel shares where to be found and what’s next for her

Links from this episode:

The Fantasy of Being Thin

Hegemonic Futurity

Heavy: An American Memoir

Persistent Drive for Autonomy (PDA)

Positionality

Rachel Fox

Relative Fat vs. Absolute Fat

Reproductive Futurity

Rowan Hildebrand-Chupp

Settler Colonialism

Tiana Dodson

Music: “Bees and Bumblebees (Abeilles et Bourdons), Op. 562” by Eugène Dédé through the Creative Commons License