Fancy Meeting You Here: The Podcast

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A print version of this essay is available here . Credits Produced and Engineered by Lisa Weaklim Written by Kelly Rafferty Music by Mutt Notes Ragen Chastain Ragen writes Weight and Healthcare , a research-packed newsletter “examining weight science, weight stigma, and what evidence, ethics, and lived experience teach us about best healthcare and public health practices for higher weight people.”...

Credits Produced and Engineered by Lisa Weaklim Written by Kelly Rafferty Music by Mutt Links Tressie McMillan Cottom Blonde NYT Opinion Piece Here’s the original video: Here’s one of her responses to commenters: This duet is hilarious: Finally, here’s a little wrap-up video she made at the end of a day and a half of talking about blonde: Cameron Esposito Cameron on IG The Autostraddle Piece The J...

Welcome to season two of Fancy Meeting You Here ! I’m Kelly Rafferty, a writer and an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary producer based in Alameda, CA, a little island between Oakland and San Francisco. In this newsletter, I send you personal essays in text and audio from the land of queer embodiment. If you listen to the audio version of Fancy Meeting You Here , you’ll get to know Lisa We...

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Over the past month, Lisa and I had conversations about trauma-informed movement training with four experts in the Bay Area that I have come to trust over the years: As we wrap up this series on trauma and movement, I want to share three of the gems I’ve been treasuring. These are the insights I find myself returning to, mulling over, and trying to incorporate into my life. I’d also REALLY love to...

For the last installment in our series of conversations about trauma-informed training, we’re talking with Patrick Barnes. Patrick is based in Oakland and he is the swiss army knife of movement coaches. He coaches ballet, weightlifting, powerlifting, strongman, parkour, kettlebells, martial arts, swordfighting, and basic gymnastics. This is the last interview in our series of conversations about t...

We’re continuing our series of interviews about trauma-informed movement with this conversation with marriage and family therapist Erica Gibbons. If you’d rather read instead of listen, there’s a lightly-edited transcript of this conversation here . Links 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed Radically Fit Erica’s Therapy Practice Credits Produced and Engineered by Lisa Weaklim Written by Kelly Rafferty Musi...

Are you new to Fancy Meeting You Here ? Welcome! If you like personal essays about sports, queer stuff, critical theory, or bodies, you’re in the right place. I’m an academic who became a documentary producer. I record this podcast with my partner, Lisa Weaklim, who is a filmmaker and musician. For some more context on who we are and what we’re doing here, you can listen to Podcast Episode 1: Do m...

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Content Note: Mention of the existence of sexual assault and rape culture. Credits Produced and Engineered by Lisa Weaklim Written by Kelly Rafferty Music by Mutt Get full access to Fancy Meeting You Here at kellyrafferty.substack.com/subscribe

Here’s a more detailed look at the history of LIV Golf from Sportico , “PGA Tour - LIV Golf Timeline: From Creation to Merger .” Other Sources in Order of Appearance Golf Magazine “Inside the costly — but worth it — nature of pro-ams” Golfweek “With Super Bowl in town, 2024 LIV Golf Las Vegas has loaded pro-am field” New York Times “The Alliance of LIV Golf and the PGA Tour: Here’s What to Know” R...

* If you have questions about including trans people in sports or you find that the conversation makes you uncomfortable or you’re excited to learn more, please go read Frankie de la Cretaz’s work . Frankie’s a trans journalist who covers this beat and has real expertise here. This piece is a good overview of current challenges facing trans athletes and this one focuses on trans kids in sports . *...

As promised, here are the Gravity Golf practice drills that improved our swings but put our social standing at risk: This transfer drill makes you look like Happy Gilmore: This one makes you look like a preppy flamingo: And this one makes you look like you’re just farting around: If you need more ‘90s nostalgia before we move on, please enjoy this amazing Gravity Golf infomercials that ran on the...

Here’s the rope drill that my dad taught Lisa. It was created by Dr. Kwon at Texas Woman’s University: Produced and Engineered by Lisa Weaklim Written by Kelly Rafferty Music by Mutt Get full access to Fancy Meeting You Here at kellyrafferty.substack.com/subscribe

As promised, a cornucopia of links: * Here’s the long-ass IG caption about how we became friends with Kate and Lauren. I wrote after Lisa and I attended their wedding. * To read more about their wedding, check out this piece in the New York Times . * To read a lovely thing that Kate wrote about their wedding, go here to her Substack, I Love What You’re Doing . * Have you subscribed to Kate’s Subst...

Produced and Engineered by Lisa Weaklim Written by Kelly Rafferty Music by Mutt Works Cited Cook, Kevin. Driven: Teen Phenoms, Mad Parents, Swing Science and the Future of Golf . Gotham Books, 2008. Dinshaw, Carolyn, Lee Edelman, Roderick A. Ferguson, Carla Freccero, Elizabeth Freeman, J. Halberstam, Annamarie Jagose, Christopher Nealon, and Nguyen Tan Hoang. “Theorizing Queer Temporalities: A Rou...

Produced and Engineered by Lisa Weaklim Written by Kelly Rafferty Music by Mutt Works Cited Dinshaw, Carolyn, Lee Edelman, Roderick A. Ferguson, Carla Freccero, Elizabeth Freeman, J. Halberstam, Annamarie Jagose, Christopher Nealon, and Nguyen Tan Hoang. “Theorizing Queer Temporalities: A Roundtable Discussion,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies . Duke University Press, 2007. 13(2-3): 177-...

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