5/13 Chat: Diet Culture is Sneaky!

Let’s talk about the newest podcast episode for Maintenance Phase! The wellness - Q pipeline is discussed and it seems extremely relevant these days.

Everywhere I look, I see another bopo or body liberation influencer falling into the “wellness” language and ideologies, which can be equivalent to or a slope towards the same rhetoric as diet culture.

Have you been seeing this? Do you follow some influencers or brands that seem to be saying things that are contradictory to their previous messaging? Does it seem like their language is further confusing you on what body positivity and body liberation are? Does it seem like they may be trying to integrate languages and ideas that other fat folks are calling them out on? It’s something to keep an eye on for your own journey. The truth is: people will do what they want to do and those of us who try to be activists for a cause will likely always find that our movements are co-opted, but we can take responsibility for seeing what’s happening and removing it from our newsfeeds or educating others on what seems to be happening. It takes a village and as we know all too well, the most marginalized are often silenced. Sometimes in really sneaky ways.