On today’s episode, we’re talking about body liberation. More specifically, we’re exploring what it means to navigate a fat-phobic world while living in a fat body AND how we can find pleasure and joy while doing so. We’ll also talk about how people who don’t live in fat bodies can educate themselves and become better allies.

Our guest today is Dawn Serra. Dawn Serra is a white, cis, queer, fat, disabled therapist specializing in relationships, pleasure, and body trust. She is the co-founder of Tend and Cultivate Counselling, Canada's first mental health group practice providing trauma-informed, weight-neutral, radical mental health care for people in bigger bodies. The nexus of her work is tending to the places where we are most tender and cultivating the things that contribute to our aliveness - joy, pleasure, connection, satisfaction, and wonder.

Below are the authors, activists and works named in our conversation:

• https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670607/belly-of-the-beast-by-dashaun-harrison/
• https://nyupress.org/9781479886753/fearing-the-black-body/
• Gloria Lucas of Nalgona Positivity Pride: https://www.nalgonapositivitypride.com/
• Scholar Lauren Munro of Toronto Metropolitan University (accidentally said Tara in the interview) writes, "Fat bodies do not simply move through hostile spaces, they are marked by them (bruises, scrapes, scars). Spatial injustice is the intentional exclusion of fat bodies in public spaces. These issues create access barriers to joy, happiness, belonging."

The following sound is loyalty-free and generously provided by the community of artists on Pixabay:

1. A Small Miracle by Romarecord1973 (Beginning and Ending Credit).
2. Tokyo Cafe by TVARI (Mid-Credit).