Embodiment for the Rest of Us - Season 4, Episode 10: Dr. Rachel Fox, PhD

Jenn (she/they) and Chavonne (she/her) interviewed Dr. Rachel Fox, PhD (she/her) about her embodiment journey! Specifically we talk about having a clinically fat ass and passion projects (aka the dissertation Doctor Fox just defended last Tuesday!!!)

Dr. Rachel Fox is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University. She is also a Kroner Family Fellow, Judith and Neil Morgan Fellow, and UC President's Dissertation Year Fellow in the Communication Department, Science Studies Program, and Critical Gender Studies Graduate Specialization at UC San Diego. Her dissertation will be available as an open access document in 1 or 2 months from this episode’s publication. She holds a BA in Biology from Wesleyan University, an MS in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, and an MA in Communication from UC San Diego. Her research has been published in the Fat Studies Journal, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and the Journal of Applied Social Psychology. In 2021, she joined the Centre for Fat Liberation and Scholarship as an Inaugural Junior Fellow. Her research critically examines how anti-obesity efforts drive anti-fatness in the US and how the field of weight stigma research perpetuates anti-fatness through its refusal to divest from an anti-obesity agenda.

Content Warning: Discussion of ableism, discussion of medical fatphobia, discussion of the multiple genocides occurring globally, discussion of intentional weight loss (including GLP-1 drugs), discussion of ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis)

Trigger Warnings: 

This episode uses the word “obesity” throughout without being bleeped.

The captions for this episode can be found at https://embodimentfortherestofus.com/season-4/season-4-episode-10-doctor-rachel-fox/#captions

A few highlights:

10:03 : Rachel shares her understanding of “the rest of us” and how she is a part of that, as well as her privileges

18:35 : Rachel discusses how the word “Rest” right in the middle of the podcast name feels, occurs, and shows up for her

27:07 : Rachel shares her passion project and how it has affected her own embodiment

1:31:21 : Rachel discusses how listeners can make a difference based on this conversation

1:35:17 : Rachel shares where to be found and what’s next for her

Links from this episode:

Autism

Blakeley H. Payne

The Body is Not An Apology (Book)

The Body is Not An Apology (IG)

Decolonizing Therapy

Mikey Mercedes

Monica Kriete

Neurodivergence

OCD

Persistent Drive for Autonomy (PDA)

Public Health’s Power-Neutral, Fatphobic Obsession with “Food Deserts”

Rowan Hildebrand-Chupp

Sonya Renee Taylor

Weight Stigma Conference

Music: “Bees and Bumblebees (Abeilles et Bourdons​)​, Op. 562” by Eugène Dédé through the Creative Commons License

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