Ragen Chastain is a speaker, writer, and thought leader in the fields of Body Image, Health at Every Size, Fitness, Corporate Wellness, Weight Stigma and weight bias in healthcare. She is the author of the blog DanceswithFat.org, the book Fat: The Owner’s Manual, editor of the Praeger Anthology “The Politics of Size,” and co-founder of the Fit Fatties Forum and Fat Activism Conference. Ragen is frequently featured as an expert in radio, television, and print, and the documentaries Fattitude, America the Beautiful 2, A Stage for Size, and the PBS Independent Lens short Ragen’s More Cabaret. She is an ACE Certified Health Coach, three-time National champion dancer, and two-time marathoner who holds the Guinness World Record for Heaviest Woman to Complete a Marathon. She lives in Los Angeles and is training for her first (and only!) Iron-distance triathlon.
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– Website: https://danceswithfat.org/
Mentioned on today’s episode:
– Workshop – Dealing with fatphobia at the doctor’s office
– Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality
– HAES Health Sheets
– Study: Bacon & Aphramor; Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift
– Study: Framingham Heart Study
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More body image episodes!
– Self-objectification and becoming more than a body with Dr. Lindsay Kite
– Body Justice and Fat Joy with Amanda Martinez Beck
– Grieving your ‘Ideal’ body weight and weight suppression with Kristina Bruce {Part 1}
– Rebelling against toxic postpartum body ideals and gaslighting in the fitness industry with Larkin Silverman
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