Today Virginia is chatting with Christine Yu, author of Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes . We dive deep into misogyny in sports science, reclaiming carbs, and conduct a little Sports Bra Science. If you order Up to Speed from the Burnt Toast Bookshop , you can get 10 percent off that purchase if you also order (or have already ordered!) Fat Talk ! (Just use the code FATTALK at checkout.) And don’t forget to check out our new Burnt Toast Podcast Bonus Content! If you want...
Oct 19, 2023•42 min
Today Virginia is chatting with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of Big Girl . Originally from Harlem, Mecca is now an associate professor of English at Georgetown University and lives in Washington DC. She is also the author The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora and Blue Talk and Love . It is an utter delight to talk about writing, fatness, and bodies with Mecca. If you order Big Girl from the Burnt Toast Bookshop , you can get 10 percent off that purchase if you...
Oct 12, 2023•33 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's time for your September/October Indulgence Gospel! Corinne is here. We’re getting into the tyranny of portion control, meal trains, and whether Virginia's house is really that clean. If you are already a paid subscriber, you’ll have this entire episode in your podcast feed and access to the entire transcript in your inbox and on the Burnt Toast Substack . If you are not a paid subscriber, you'll onl...
Oct 05, 2023•10 min
Today Virginia is chatting with Katy Geraghty. Katy is an actor in New York City, most recently seen as Little Red in Into The Woods on Broadway as well as the national tour. We asked Katy to come on the show, because she knows firsthand what it’s like to be a fat kid in theater, and a fat professional working actor in theater. If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber to get all of Virginia's reportin...
Sep 28, 2023•50 min
Today Virginia is chatting with Dr. Devorah Heitner, author of the brand new book, Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World . She’s also the author of Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World and has a PhD in media technology and society from Northwestern University and has taught at Northwestern and DePaul. GIVEAWAY In lieu of taking our usual guest honorarium, Devorah asked me to host a book giveaway, which is so much fun. We have four copies of Growin...
Sep 21, 2023•38 min
Today Virginia is chatting with Phoebe Wahl, an award winning illustrator, surface designer, and author of several books, including the brand new illustrated young adult novel Phoebe’s Diary . If you order Phoebe’s Diary from the Burnt Toast Bookshop, you can get 10 percent off that purchase if you also order (or have already ordered!) Fat Talk ! (Just use the code FATTALK at checkout.) If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a p...
Sep 14, 2023•54 min
Today Virginia is chatting with Amy Palanjian, creator of Yummy Toddler Food and author of the brand new cookbook, Dinnertime SOS: 100 Sanity-Saving Meals Parents and Kids of All Ages Will Actually Want to Eat . We get into what makes family dinner a hellscape, diet culture in kid food, mom friends, and more. If you order Dinnertime SOS from the Burnt Toast Bookshop, you can get 10 percent off that purchase if you also order (or have already ordered!) Fat Talk ! (Just use the code FATTALK at che...
Aug 24, 2023•50 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com t's time for your August Indulgence Gospel! Corinne is here. We’re getting into power lifting, fruit rage, menstrual taboos and YouTubers telling you how to eat. If you are already a paid subscriber, you’ll have this entire episode in your podcast feed and access to the entire transcript in your inbox and on the Burnt Toast Substack . If you are not a paid subscriber, you'll only get the first chunk. To ...
Aug 17, 2023•12 min
Today Virginia is chatting with Mary Carney, the founder of Towel , a new size inclusive lifestyle brand. Because a towel that doesn't wrap around your body is just a classic example of anti-fat bias in action. If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber to get all of Virginia's reporting and bonus subscriber-only episodes—including the director's cut of this conversation where VA and AHP answer all of y...
Aug 10, 2023•34 min
You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast about anti-fat bias, diet culture, parenting, and health. I am Virginia Sole Smith. Today I am chatting with Lindsey Guile . Lindsey is an Associate Professor of Art at Dutchess Community College, and a body and fat liberation artist. Lindsey uses large format drawing and ceramics to explore concepts of self image, body image and self worth through the lens of contemporary feminist theory. Her work has been exhibited at The Arnot Museum, The D...
Aug 03, 2023•34 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com Today Virginia is chatting with Anne Helen Petersen , author of four books and co-host of the Work Appropriate podcast, who also writes the newsletter Culture Study—and its recently launched little sister, Garden Study . We're exploring how gardening can be part of perfectionism and productivity culture—or its radical undoing. If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in you...
Jul 27, 2023•48 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's time for your July Indulgence Gospel! Corinne is here. We’re getting into power lifting, sugar-y breakfast cereals, long hair rules and lots of fat swim talk . If you are already a paid subscriber, you’ll have this entire episode in your podcast feed and access to the entire transcript in your inbox and on the Burnt Toast Substack . If you are not a paid subscriber, you'll only get the first chunk. ...
Jul 20, 2023•16 min
Welcome to Part 2 of our two-parter on Ultra Processed Foods! Virginia is chatting with Laura Thomas, PhD , a Registered Nutritionist who specializes in responsive feeding and anti-diet, body affirming nutrition. Her work centers on helping parents and families end inter-generation dieting and body shame, and work towards a greater sense of embodiment and ease in their relationship with food. She runs the Substack and podcast Can I Have Another Snack? , and is the author of two books; Just Eat I...
Jul 13, 2023•28 min
Welcome to Part 1 of our two-parter on Ultra Processed Foods! Virginia is chatting with Laura Thomas, PhD , a Registered Nutritionist who specializes in responsive feeding and anti-diet, body affirming nutrition. Her work centers on helping parents and families end inter-generation dieting and body shame, and work towards a greater sense of embodiment and ease in their relationship with food. She runs the Substack and podcast Can I Have Another Snack? , and is the author of two books; Just Eat I...
Jul 06, 2023•46 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's time for your June Indulgence Gospel! Corinne is here and we're celebrating our 100th episode. We've got answers to your questions about Ozempic, dahlias and leggings, plus a lil' hate mail and of course, Butter. If you are already a paid subscriber, you’ll have this entire episode in your podcast feed and access to the entire transcript in your inbox and on the Burnt Toast Substack . If you are not...
Jun 29, 2023•13 min
Today Virginia is chatting with Kyle Ganson, PhD , an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work who studies eating disorders in boys and young men. This is an episode a lot of you have been asking for—we don’t talk enough about boys and how they struggle with all of these issues. If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber to get all of Virginia's reportin...
Jun 22, 2023•38 min
Today Virginia is chatting with Jo Piazza, best selling author, journalist, and podcast creator. You might know her from her awesome podcast Under the Influence , or her very excellent Substack Over the Influence . And her new book, co-authored with Christine Pride entitled You Were Always Mine , just came out this month. Remember, if you order Jo's book (or any books we mention on the pod!) from the Burnt Toast Bookshop , you can get 10 percent off that purchase if you also order (or have alrea...
Jun 15, 2023•40 min
Today Virginia is chatting with Martinus Evans, the author of the brand new book Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run . He runs Slow AF Run Club , a running community for folks to run in the bodies they have, and is @300poundsandrunning on Instagram. Remember, if you order Martinus's book (or any books we mention on the pod!) from the Burnt Toast Bookshop , you can get 10 percent off that purchase if you also order (or have already ordered!) Fat Talk ! (Just use the c...
Jun 08, 2023•42 min
Today Virginia is chatting with Elise Hu, the author of the brand new book Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital , which explores the intersections of beauty culture and diet culture in South Korea. If you have ever purchased a sheet mask or a babyfoot peel or any other K beauty products or if you’ve just been aware of the absolute phenomenon of Korean beauty culture, you need to read Flawless . Remember, if you order Elise's book (or any books we mention on the pod!) ...
Jun 01, 2023•40 min
Today Virginia is chatting with Cole Kazdin , author of What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety , which explodes a lot of the problems with our current eating disorder treatment system. Remember, if you order Cole's book (or any books we mention on the pod!) from the Burnt Toast Bookshop , you can get 10 percent off that purchase if you also order (or have already ordered!) Fat Talk ! (Just use the code FATTALK at checkout.) If you want more conversations like this one, p...
May 25, 2023•34 min
Today Virginia is chatting with fat rights advocate Tigress Osborn. Tigress is Chair of the Board of NAAFA, The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance , and helping to lead the Campaign for Size Freedom, which just scored a huge victory in New York City and there is more to come. Remember, if you order books we mention in today's pod from the Burnt Toast Bookshop , you can get 10 percent off that purchase if you also order (or have already ordered!) Fat Talk ! (Just use the code FATTALK ...
May 18, 2023•51 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's time for the May Indulgence Gospel! Instead of answering your questions this month, we're reading Virginia's hate mail. Buckle up! If you are already a paid subscriber, you’ll have this entire episode in your podcast feed and access to the entire transcript in your inbox and on the Burnt Toast Substack . If you are not a paid subscriber, you'll only get the first chunk. To hear the whole conversatio...
May 11, 2023•10 min
Today Virginia is chatting with her longtime friend and colleague Christy Harrison, MPH, RD! Christy is a journalist, registered dietitian, and certified Intuitive Eating counselor. She’s the author of Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating . And today we are talking about Christy’s new book, The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being . And remember, if you order The Wellne...
May 04, 2023•44 min
FAT TALK is now out in the world! To celebrate, Corinne is here to chat with Virginia about the writing and reporting process. If you love what you hear, you can order the hardcover , ebook , or audiobook ( or if you’re in the UK and the Commonwealth, the paperback ) anywhere you buy books. Split Rock has signed copies (feel free to request a personal inscription!). If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subsc...
Apr 27, 2023•33 min
Today is a very special episode: You are all going to be the very, very first people to hear me read Chapter 1 of FAT TALK: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, which comes out in just 5 days, on April 25 . We are excerpting this from the audiobook, which I got to narrate . If you love what you hear, I hope you will order the audiobook or the hardcover ( or if you’re in the UK and the Commonwealth, the paperback ) anywhere you buy books. Split Rock has signed copies and don’t forget that when y...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 8 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's our April Ask Us Anything episode! We're covering Ozempic, clogs, chafing, and what if you just don't want your kid to be fat. If you are already a paid subscriber, you’ll have this entire episode in your podcast feed and access to the entire transcript in your inbox and on the Burnt Toast Substack . If you are not a paid subscriber, you'll only get the first chunk. To hear the whole conversation or...
Apr 13, 2023•12 min
Today's episode is a Comfort Food rerun featuring a conversation between Virginia, Amy Palanjian , and Darcy Lock man. Darcy is a clinical psychologist and author of All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership . All the Rage explores how egalitarian relationships become traditional ones when children are introduced to the household and why a disproportionate amount of parental work falls on women, no matter their background, class or professional status Darcy’s book was ...
Apr 06, 2023•45 min
Today Virginia is chatting with Jessica Wilson, MS, RD. Jessica is a dietitian and community organizer who co-created the #amplifymelanatedvoices challenge which went viral in 2020. She is also the author of It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies which came out in February. If you are someone who has been in the anti-diet, intuitive eating, Health at Every Size spaces for a while, this conversation may give you some really big questions to sit with—it definitely did f...
Mar 30, 2023•48 min
It's time for another community episode! This month, Virginia and Corinne are exploring how we feel about the word fat: Who gets to use it? What if you just don't want to use it? What is the power of reclaiming it? Thank you to everyone who contributed today. If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber to get all of Virginia's reporting and bonus subscriber-only episodes. And don't forget to preorder ! F...
Mar 23, 2023•40 min
Today Virginia is chatting with Chrissy King . Chrissy's new book, The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom is out this week. It’s an incredible mix of memoir and cultural analysis and an exploration of the intersection of racism and diet culture. And remember, if you order it from the Burnt Toast Bookshop , you can get 10 percent off if you also preorder (or have already preordered!) Fat Talk ! (Just use the code FAT...
Mar 16, 2023•38 min
