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Episode 90: You Have the Right to Remain Fat (And Be A Fat Ally) with Virgie Tovar

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Episode 90: You Have the Right to Remain Fat (and be a fat ally) with Virgie TovarThis week I’m talking to author and fat activist Virgie Tovar about her new book You Have the Right to Remain Fat.

Tune in as Virgie shares her manifesto for standing up to diet culture.

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You Have the Right to Remain Fat — Feminist PressAbout Virgie

Virgie Tovar is an author, activist and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp, a 4-week online course designed to help women who are ready to break up with diet culture, and started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight.

Virgie has been featured by the New York Times, Tech Insider, Al Jazeera and NPR. She pens a weekly column called Take the Cake on Ravishly.com. She edited the ground-breaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press, November 2012) and her latest non-fiction work, You Have the Right to Remain Fat (published August 2018 by Feminist Press).

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