On Tuesday, I launched Fat Girl Gym, a new series where I’ll chronicle my experiences going to the gym as a fat, 45-year-old, unathletic person.
I’m figuring out the weight room, which classes are nice and which are diet culture hellscapes, and more. You can read the first installment here, and the whole series will eventually live here.
Meanwhile on the pod, I’m in conversation with the brilliant jamilah lemieux.
We’re talking about her new book, Black. Single. Mother., and getting into who gets to claim the title of “single mother” and whether dating…especially for single moms… can become a diet?
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These are going to be a little bit unfiltered and a mix of debriefing on guest interviews, personal updates, listener questions and whatever else you want to hear us chat about! This week we debrief on my Jamilah interview and talk a little more about how the pressures of motherhood get tangled up with body size. Listen here!
PS. Don’t forget, you can take 10% off your copy of Black. Single. Mother. if you buy it from my local independent bookstore along with a copy of Fat Talk!
Toast-Adjacent
Who are your best friends? (Broadly defined!)
Burnt Toast’s beloved producer Kim Baldwin is turning 50! And she has thoughts.
Over on Big Undies, the Closet Concierge will see you now!
Roxane Gay wrote about fatness, GLP-1s, and Lindy West and it is just the best thing ever.
Corinne dyed a bunch of clothes and they are SUCH a good blue.
Friend of the show/former Cult co-host Sara Petersen feels bad about her hair.
The Toastie Take
Says Rachel on Help! I Joined A Gym: “I remind myself that those who look like me are afraid of gyms and don’t want to go in. It’s not that the world is thin, it’s that this world is thin. So I’m there to REPRESENT!”
Says Ellen in Who Are Your Best Friends?: “One of my friends said that if she doesn't bother to vacuum, then the person coming over is her best friend. By that standard, everyone is my best friend!”
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Plus Some Butter!
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Universal Standard’s iconic Geneva dress is STILL on sale for just $45! They have a lot of colors and larger sizes left… I clearly don’t need another but somehow one in “deep sea” is on the way to my house as I type this? How on earth!?
Here’s a video of me wearing the navy stripe, because I do think it helps to see the shape of this kind of dress from all angles. We are not 2D, as Dacy Gillespie always reminds us!
As you can see, my cat Licorice approves and let me tell you, he is such a judgy stylist.