Anti Diet Riot Club: Building an activist community

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Becky Young, our guest today is the founder of Anti Diet Riot Club, an activist community and events platform dedicated to fighting back against ‘Diet Culture’ and what she calls the ‘dangerous standards of beauty that surround it’. She believes that empowering people to love themselves is a small but powerful resistance against a society that profits billions from our self-loathing. 

It started as a personal journey started to resonate with people across the world, and she has now built an online following of over 100,000 people. They host monthly events and workshops, they have also hosted a festival, ran a crowdfunding campaign and have been featured in places like The Independent, The Guardian, The Evening Standard, and Time Out as well as speaking on BBC news and to the London Mayer, Sadiq Khan.

We talked about where moralistic eating came from, what we can do to remove shame from food, why getting bad comments when running a project can be so difficult and why it might always stay a side project.

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