The Fat Doctor Podcast Challenging the sixth law: Should good health should be our number one priority?
In order to challenge the sixth law of healthism, Dr. Asher Larmie is joined by Caleb Luna, an artist, public scholar and theorist of the body. They are the author of REVENGE BODY and co-host of the podcast Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back.
In this episode, Asher and Caleb discuss:
- How health and wellness culture is abelist and classist
- How the pursuit of health and wellness is cultural and should not be assumed
- How they learned to flip the script and embrace their fatness
- The beauty of queer culture
References:
Caleb's book REVENGEBODY can be purchased now.
Caleb can be found on Instagram and through their website
You can listen to Unsolicited Fatties Talk Back wherever you listen to your podcast.
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More about Caleb Luna
As a Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, Caleb's dissertation reads race, size and sexuality in contemporary U.S. media and cultural production. Publishing, performing and curating across genre and medium, their work is interested in engaging embodied difference as a generative resource toward fatter understandings of collective freedom.
More about the show:
How would you react if someone told you that most of what we are taught to believe about healthy bodies is a lie? How would you feel if that person was a medical doctor with over 20 years experience treating p
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