What Page Are You On?

115: Fat Talk with Virginia Sole-Smith

What Page Are You On?

Show Notes

Bethany has the huge pleasure of chatting to Virginia Sole-Smith about her revolutionary new book Fat Talk: Coming of Age in Diet Culture, which investigates the radical possibility of abandoning our cultural fears around 'childhood obesity' to create bodily autonomy in children and beyond.

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