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Fat, Over 40, And Running — Jill Angie on the podcast, Fat Joy with Sophia Apostol
“The Fat Joy podcast is a joyful rebellion against anti-fatness. Each episode is a conversation between host and Professional Coach Sophia Apostol and another fat person about how to flourish in our fatphobic world. We’re exploring the harms, biases, and oppressions we’ve experienced while living in a world that marginalizes plus-size & fat bodies and promotes the lies of Diet Culture. But most importantly, we’re sharing how we still dare to have the audacity and courage to reach towards joy and live our best lives while advocating for collective fat liberation & body positivity. And, at the end of every episode, Sophia reads you a poem. Topics include: body acceptance, self-love, fat activism, body positivity, fatbulous, anti-fatness, anti-diet, diet culture.”
Jill Angie, notyouraveragerunner on Instagram,
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I can’t wait to read TOUGH BROAD: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking – How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives As We Age. I think Christine’s reviewing it for the blog in weeks to come and I’m excited to get my hands on a copy too.
From the book’s web page, “Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: From mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent, mid-blizzard, on Denali, she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration the outdoors can hold. Yet through it all, she has long wondered, Why aren’t women, like men, encouraged to keep adventuring into old age?
Tough Broad is her quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body, but why we must. She dives deep into the current research on aging, and highlights the results with the stories of women like ninety-three-year-old hiker Dot Fisher-Smith, eighty-year-old scuba diver Louise Wholey, fifty-two-year-old BASE jumper Shawn Brokemond, sixty-four-year-old birdwatcher Virginia Rose, and the many septuagenarian Wave Chasers who boogie board together in the San Diego surf. These women aren’t experts. But their experiences and the scientific studies that back them up offer important insight into our own physical and emotional health as we age, showing that growing older is no reason for women to sell themselves short. Tough Broad is a high-spirited call for women to embrace the outdoors, not back away from it, in our fifties, sixties, seventies, and beyond, casting our own futures in a new and dazzling light.”
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DAUGHTER OF THE SEA — Nicole Gormley (Director), Nancy Kwon (Director) — South Korea
“Battling deep depression, Jaeyoun returns to her roots on the island of Marado, South Korea, to visit her family of female free divers known as haenyeo. To her surprise, she finds a connection to nature and her ancestors that saves her life.”
