Chavonne A. McClay, MSW, LCSW (she/her) and Jenn Jackson, MPH, RDN, LD (she/her)
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Jenn (she/her) and Chavonne (she/her) are a HAES®-aligned dietitian and therapist duo who are passionate about dismantling the intersectional barriers to embodiment. In this show, they interview professionals and those with lived experience alike to learn how they are affecting radical change and how we can all make this world a safer place for those living in larger bodies and in marginalized spaces.
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Jenn (she/her) and Chavonne (she/her) are a HAES®-aligned dietitian and therapist duo who are passionate about dismantling the intersectional barriers to embodiment. In this show, they interview professionals and those with lived experience alike to learn how they are affecting radical change and how we can all make this world a safer place for those living in larger bodies and in marginalized spaces.
Placefinding and Placeholding as the Marginalized Among the Marginalized with Mikey Mercedes - EFTROU: S3, Ep9
Embodiment for the Rest of Us
2 hours 14 minutes 20 seconds
2 years ago
Placefinding and Placeholding as the Marginalized Among the Marginalized with Mikey Mercedes - EFTROU: S3, Ep9
Embodiment for the Rest of Us - Season 3, Episode 9: Mikey Mercedes
Chavonne (she/her) and Jenn (she/her) interviewed Mikey Mercedes (she/they) about their embodiment journey.
Marquisele (Mikey) Mercedes (she/they) is a fat liberationist writer, creator, educator, and doctoral student from the Bronx, New York. As a Presidential Fellow at the Brown University School of Public Health, she works at the intersection of critical public health studies, fat studies, and scholarship on race/ism, examining how racism, anti-Blackness, and fatphobia have shaped health care, research, and public health.
Mikey is also a co-host of the podcast Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back, which explores the lived fat experience from diverse vantage points to examine fatphobia in our relationships and culture. Her socials are @marquisele on Twitter, @fatmarquisele on Instagram, and Patreon.com/marquisele on Patreon. Their website is also marquiselemercedes.com
Content Warning: discussion of privilege, discussion of diet culture, discussion of fatphobia, discussion of racism, discussion of mental health, discussion of chronic medical issues, discussion of medical fatphobia
Trigger Warnings: None for this episode
The captions for this episode can be found at https://embodimentfortherestofus.com/season-3/season-3-episode-9-mikey-mercedes/#captions
A few highlights:
3:43: Mikey shares their understanding of “the rest of us” and how they are a part of that, as well as their privileges
1:03:33: Mikey discusses how “Rest” right in the middle of the podcast name feels, occurs, and shows up for her
1:38:34: Mikey shares her work on her podcast and how she stays embodied while working with her co-hosts
1:59:58: Mikey discusses how listeners can make a difference based on this conversation
2:04:08: Mikey shares where to be found and what’s next for them
Links from this episode:
ADHD
Autism
Black Feminism Reimagined
Black Feminist Thought
Da’Shaun Harrison
Ebony Oldham
Elite Capture
The Embodiment of Disobedience
Fat Activism
Fatness Spectrum
Fatty MPH
Fearing the Black Body
Google Form for Mikey’s doctoral research
Health Communism
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Matrix of Domination
Rachel Fox
Rest Is Resistance
Rebecca Puhl
Sydney Sky
Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back
Music: “Bees and Bumblebees (Abeilles et Bourdons), Op. 562” by Eugène Dédé through the Creative Commons License
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Embodiment for the Rest of Us
Jenn (she/her) and Chavonne (she/her) are a HAES®-aligned dietitian and therapist duo who are passionate about dismantling the intersectional barriers to embodiment. In this show, they interview professionals and those with lived experience alike to learn how they are affecting radical change and how we can all make this world a safer place for those living in larger bodies and in marginalized spaces.
