Today I share my conversation with EB Meerson, a high school teacher and founder of Maison de Meerson, a personal styling consulting service for people size 16+ who reclaim the label "fat."

Topics:

• Challenges of being a first generation American
• EB's near death experience and how that sparked deep gratitude for her body
• Holding trauma in the body
• Diet culture and systems of supremacy
• How "beauty" has been replaced by "health"
• Reclaiming the label "fat"
• EB's personal styling consulting company
• How being a teacher is a mirror

Links:

• Maison de Meerson Website and Instagram
• Sabrina Strings Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
• Christy Harrison's article COVID-19 Does Not Discriminate by Body Weight
• Lindy West coming out as "fat" on This American Life
• JIBRI designer
• Simi Botic's Website and Instagram
• Glennon Doyle's Untamed
• Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark

List of EB's recommended Instagram accounts to follow: @gabifresh @yrfatfriend @thebodyisnotanapology @roseybeeme @theplusbus @modachrome @therealmrskelley @marielle.elizabeth @itsmekellieb @thisisjessicatorres

As always, thank you to Maytav Koter and Spencer Stewart for the music on my podcast. And to Laura Strohbusch for the podcast graphic.