The Burnt Toast Podcast

Today is a very special episode:  You are all going to be the very, very first people to hear me read Chapter 1 of FAT TALK: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, which comes out in just 5 days, on April 25 .  We are excerpting this from the audiobook, which I got to narrate . If you love what you hear, I hope you will order the audiobook or the hardcover ( or if you’re in the UK and the Commonwea...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's our April Ask Us Anything episode! We're covering Ozempic, clogs, chafing, and what if you just don't want your kid to be fat.  If you are already a paid subscriber, you’ll have this entire episode in your podcast feed and access to the entire transcript in your inbox and  on the Burnt Toast Substack...

​​ Today's episode is a Comfort Food rerun featuring a conversation between Virginia, Amy Palanjian , and Darcy Lock man. Darcy is a clinical psychologist and author of All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership . All the Rage explores how egalitarian relationships become traditional ones when children are introduced to the household and why a disproportionate amount of pare...

Today Virginia is chatting with Jessica Wilson, MS, RD. Jessica is a dietitian and community organizer who co-created the #amplifymelanatedvoices challenge which went viral in 2020. She is also the author of It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies which came out in February.  If you are someone who has been in the anti-diet, intuitive eating, Health at Every Size spaces...

It's time for another community episode!  This month, Virginia and Corinne are exploring how we feel about the word fat: Who gets to use it? What if you just don't want to use it? What is the power of reclaiming it? Thank you to everyone who contributed today.  If you want more conversations like this one,  please rate and review us in your podcast player!  And become  a paid Burnt Toast subscribe...

Today Virginia is chatting with  Chrissy King . Chrissy's new book, The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom is out this week. It’s an incredible mix of memoir and cultural analysis and an exploration of the intersection of racism and diet culture.  And remember, if you order it from the Burnt Toast Bookshop , you can g...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's our March Ask Us Anything episode! We're covering anti-diet puberty books, clothing size chart confusion, our style icons, and a mom who thinks her 13-year-old needs to chew her food more.  If you are already a paid subscriber, you’ll have this entire episode in your podcast feed and access to the ent...

Today Virginia is chatting with  Debra Benfield , RDN. Debra has helped hundreds of women heal their relationship with food eating in their bodies over her 35-year career as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist specializing in the prevention and treatment of disordered eating, and brings her passion, expertise, and lived experience to the intersection of pro-aging and body liberation work. Deb’s wo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's our February Ask Us Anything episode! We're covering body autonomy for kids, 90s makeup icons, body feelings, and the dreaded business casual.  If you are already a paid subscriber, you’ll have this entire episode in your podcast feed and access to the entire transcript in your inbox and  on the Burnt...

It's time for another community episode!  This month, we’re tackling the new AAP guidelines for the treatment of pediatric ob*sity. The conversation we’re having here today is intended to articulate the harm we are experiencing, as fat people, as parents, as humans concerned about the safety of other humans. Thank you to everyone who contributed today.  If you want more conversations like this one...

Today Virginia is chatting with  Lauren Leavell ! Lauren is a trainer and fitness instructor based in Philadelphia, and the creator of Leavell Up Fitness a body positive and weight-inclusive fitness network that makes working out accessible and fun. If you want more conversations like this one,  please rate and review us in your podcast player!  And become  a paid Burnt Toast subscriber  to get al...

What is a sensitivity read and why is it so important to the book publishing process?  Today Virginia is chatting with Dominic Bradley ! Dominic is a Brooklyn-based Black disabled queer visual artist, writer, and performer who provided the sensitivity read on Virginia's upcoming book, Fat Talk . And don't forget to  preorder ! Fat Talk: Parenting In the Age of Diet Culture comes out April 25, 2023...

It's time for your January AMA! Corinne is back, and we're answering your questions about fat language, allyship, cozy clothes, Chick-fil-A, breakfast and more.  If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber.  To reward us all for surviving the January diet culture noise, we're taking 20 percent off subscrip...

Today is a Very Special Episode because we're hearing from all of you!  If you’re a paid Burnt Toast subscriber, then you know about Friday Threads . Today's episode is like a Friday Thread for your ears. Our prompt is anti-diet New Year's resolutions and I can't wait for you to hear what everyone had to say.  If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast...

Today Virginia is chatting with the brilliant Aubrey Gordon! Aubrey is the co-host of Maintenance Phase , and the author of two books: What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat and (out this week! go buy it!!) "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and 19 Other Myths About Fat People .  If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become  a paid...

New Year’s is a fraught time for a lot of us! Resolution culture means that diet noise and fitness noise are turned up to level 1000 right now. I was thinking about that and remembered this really lovely conversation that Amy Palanjian and I had with Christy Harrison on our old podcast Comfort Food and I decided that this episode called “New Year, No Diet” would be the perfect rerun to share with...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com Being able to feed yourself without the observation of someone around you just really changes things.   You’re listening to Burnt Toast. This is the podcast where we talk about diet culture, fat phobia, parenting and health. I’m Virginia Sole-Smith, I also write the Burnt Toast newsletter. Today we are rev...

Today Virginia is chatting about the intersection of diet culture and care tasks with the great KC Davis!  KC is a licensed professional therapist, author of  How to Keep House While Drowning , and the person behind the mental health platform Struggle Care . If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become  a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . I...

Today Corinne is back! She got bangs, you guys! And it is time for a very special holiday themed Ask Us Anything. As always, we record these once a month. (Except last month when Thanksgiving threw us off. But here’s October if you missed it!) So if you have questions, you can email them over by hitting reply to any newsletter or drop them here .  If you want more conversations like this one, plea...

Today Virginia is chatting with Jeff Hunger who is an assistant professor of social psychology at Miami University in Ohio, who studies weight stigma.  Our focus of this episode is Jeff’s work on anti-fat bias, understanding how we internalize it, the difference between implicit and explicit bias, and how we start to separate out concepts like body image struggles from the larger conversation of a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com Today Virginia is chatting with  Emiko Davies , an award winning Australian-Japanese food writer, photographer, and cookbook author based in Italy. Her most recent book is  Cinnamon & Salt , and she also shares her recipes on her Instagram and in her Substack newsletter,Emiko’s Newsletter. If you are alrea...

Today Virginia is chatting with  Naureen Hunani , the founder of RDs for Neurodiversity, a neurodiversity-informed online continuing education platform for dietitians and helping professionals. Naureen also has her own private practice in Montreal, where she treats children, adults, and families struggling with various feeding and eating challenges through a trauma-informed, weight-inclusive, and...

Today Virginia is chatting with with Pam Luk, founder of Ember & Ace , a new line of plus size athletic clothing for kids. We get in what's wrong with the kids' clothing industry, and Pam has so many tips and hacks to making finding clothes for kids in bigger bodies more doable.  If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become  a paid Burn...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's our October bonus episode! And since it's spooky season, and maybe nothing is more terrifying than retro gender norms, Virginia is revisiting an old essay about Halloween in Girl World.  If you are already a paid subscriber, you’ll have this entire episode in your podcast feed and access to the entire...

Today’s episode is our October Ask Us Anything with Virginia and Corinne Fay of @SellTradePlus! We get into unlearning fatphobia, managing treats with kids, and our very unpopular opinions about Halloween.  If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber. It's just $5 per month or $50 for the year. Producing a...