[S2] Lindy West: Comedy Helps Us Love Our Bodies

Creating Our Own Lives

Jun 08, 2017•20 min•Ep. 16

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Episode description

“When everything feels horrible, what tiny detail can we seize on and laugh about.”

Writer Lindy West talks about being fat and being a feminist with an honesty and vulnerability infused with humor. Titles of her essays and books — “My wedding was perfect — and I was fat as hell the whole time” or Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman — get at both the laughter and pain of her journey to body positivity, with poignant insights into the destructive power of comedy.

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