The Burnt Toast Podcast

You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast about anti-fat bias, diet culture, parenting and health. I’m Virginia Sole Smith. Today I am chatting with Jessie Diaz-Herrera . Jessie is a body affirming dancer, health and wellness influencer, and fitness enthusiast. You might know her on Instagram as @curveswithmoves , or from her Free the Jiggle classes. The first half of this episode is fo...

You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast about anti-fat bias, diet culture, parenting and health. I’m Virginia Sole Smith. Today I am chatting with Crystal Maldonado , a YA author who writes inclusive rom-com novels about fat brown girls. Crystal is the author of Fat Chance, Charlie Vega , which was a New England Book Award winner and a Cricket’s Best YA fiction of 2021; No Filter and...

Welcome to Indulgence Gospel After Dark! It’s time for your November Extra Butter episode. This month, we’re doing a listener question (on post-divorce bodies!) and a segment if It’s Not NOT a Diet on 75 Hard (or Hard 75, as Virginia likes to call it). To listen to the full episode and read the full transcript, you’ll need to join Extra Butter , our premium subscription tier. These episodes tend t...

You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast about anti-fat bias, diet culture, parenting and health. I’m Virginia Sole Smith. Today I am chatting about body autonomy, diet culture, and chronic health conditions, with Leigh Kamping-Carder, who writes The Heart Dialogues. The Heart Dialogues is a newsletter for people with congenital heart conditions and the people who care about them. Leig...

Virginia You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast about diet culture, anti-fat bias parenting and health. I’m Virginia Sole-Smith. Corinne And I’m Corinne Fay. I work on Burnt Toast and run SellTradePlus , an Instagram account where you can buy and sell plus sized clothing. Virginia And it’s time for your November Indulgence Gospel! This was supposed to be your October Indulgence Gospe...

You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast about anti-fat bias, diet culture, parenting and health. I’m Virginia Sole Smith. Today I am chatting with Vashti Harrison , number one New York Times- bestselling author and illustrator of Little Leaders , Little Dreamers , and Little Legends — about her newest picture book, Big . Big is such an important contribution to the representation of B...

You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast about anti-fat bias, diet culture, parenting and health. I’m Virginia Sole Smith. Today I am just beyond delighted to be chatting with musician and comedian Farideh , who I have been high key obsessed with on Instagram for months now. Farideh is known for relatable and hilarious takes on motherhood. In December 2022 her song Such a Good Dad went...

You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast about anti-fat bias, diet culture, parenting and health. I’m Virginia Sole Smith. Today I am chatting with Christine Yu, author of Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes . Christine is an award-winning journalist whose work focuses on the intersection of sports science and women athletes. Her writing has appeared in Outside ,...

You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast about anti-fat bias, diet culture, parenting and health. I’m Virginia Sole Smith. Today I’m chatting with the brilliant Mecca Jamila Sullivan, author of Big Girl . Originally from Harlem, Mecca is now an associate professor of English at Georgetown University and lives in Washington DC. She is also the author The Poetics of Difference: Queer Fem...

Virginia You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast about diet culture, anti-fat bias, parenting, and health. I’m Virginia Sole Smith. I also write the Burnt Toast newsletter. Corinne And I’m Corinne Fay. I work on Burnt Toast and run @selltradeplus , an Instagram account where you can buy and sell plus sized clothing. Virginia It is time for your September 1 Indulgence Gospel! We are go...

 Today Virginia is chatting with Katy Geraghty. Katy is an actor in New York City, most recently seen as Little Red in Into The Woods on Broadway as well as the national tour. We asked Katy to come on the show, because she knows firsthand what it’s like to be a fat kid in theater, and a fat professional working actor in theater.   If you want more conversations like this one,  please rate and rev...

 Today Virginia is chatting with Dr. Devorah Heitner, author of the brand new book, Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World .  She’s also the author of Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World and has a PhD in media technology and society from Northwestern University and has taught at Northwestern and DePaul. GIVEAWAY In lieu of taking our usual guest ho...

Today Virginia is chatting with Phoebe Wahl, an award winning illustrator, surface designer, and author of several books, including the brand new illustrated young adult novel  Phoebe’s Diary . If you order  Phoebe’s Diary  from the Burnt Toast Bookshop, you can get 10 percent off that purchase if you also order (or have already ordered!) Fat Talk ! (Just use the code FATTALK at checkout.) If you...

Today Virginia is chatting with Amy Palanjian,  creator of Yummy Toddler Food  and author of the brand new cookbook, Dinnertime SOS: 100 Sanity-Saving Meals Parents and Kids of All Ages Will Actually Want to Eat . We get into what makes family dinner a hellscape, diet culture in kid food, mom friends, and more.  If you order Dinnertime SOS from the Burnt Toast Bookshop, you can get 10 percent off...

It's time for your August Indulgence Gospel! Corinne is here. We’re getting into power lifting, fruit rage, menstrual taboos and YouTubers telling you how to eat.    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 Patreon . If you are not a paid subscriber, you'll only get the first...

Today Virginia is chatting with  Mary Carney, the founder of Towel , a new size inclusive lifestyle brand. Because a towel that doesn't wrap around your body is just a classic example of anti-fat bias in action.  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 all of Virginia's reporting and bonus s...

You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast about anti-fat bias, diet culture, parenting, and health. I am Virginia Sole Smith. Today I am chatting with Lindsey Guile . Lindsey is an Associate Professor of Art at Dutchess Community College, and a body and fat liberation artist.  Lindsey uses large format drawing and ceramics to explore concepts of self image, body image and self worth thr...

Today Virginia is chatting with Anne Helen Petersen , author of four books and co-host of the Work Appropriate podcast, who also writes the newsletter Culture Study—and its recently launched little sister, Garden Study . We're exploring how gardening can be part of perfectionism and productivity culture—or its radical undoing.  If you want more conversations like this one,  please rate and review...

It's time for your July Indulgence Gospel! Corinne is here. We’re getting into power lifting, sugar-y breakfast cereals, long hair rules and lots of fat swim talk .   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 Patreon . If you are not a paid subscriber, you'll only get the firs...

Welcome to Part 2 of our two-parter on Ultra Processed Foods! Virginia is chatting with Laura Thomas, PhD , a Registered Nutritionist who specializes in responsive feeding and anti-diet, body affirming nutrition. Her work centers on helping parents and families end inter-generation dieting and body shame, and work towards a greater sense of embodiment and ease in their relationship with food. She...

Welcome to Part 1 of our two-parter on Ultra Processed Foods! Virginia is chatting with Laura Thomas, PhD , a Registered Nutritionist who specializes in responsive feeding and anti-diet, body affirming nutrition. Her work centers on helping parents and families end inter-generation dieting and body shame, and work towards a greater sense of embodiment and ease in their relationship with food. She...

It's time for your June Indulgence Gospel! Corinne is here and we're celebrating our 100th episode. We've got answers to your questions about Ozempic, dahlias and leggings, plus a lil' hate mail and of course, Butter.   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 Patreon . If yo...

Today Virginia is chatting with Kyle Ganson, PhD ,  an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work who studies eating disorders in boys and young men. This is an episode a lot of you have been asking for—we don’t talk enough about boys and how they struggle with all of these issues.  If you want more conversations like this one,  please rate and revie...

Today Virginia is chatting with Jo Piazza,  best selling author, journalist, and podcast creator. You might know her from her awesome podcast Under the Influence , or her very excellent Substack  Over the Influence . And her new book, co-authored with Christine Pride entitled You Were Always Mine , just came out this month. Remember, if you order Jo's book (or any books we mention on the pod!) fro...

Today Virginia is chatting with Martinus Evans,  the author of the brand new book Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run . He runs Slow AF Run Club , a running community for folks to run in the bodies they have, and is @300poundsandrunning on Instagram. Remember, if you order Martinus's book (or any books we mention on the pod!) from the Burnt Toast Bookshop , you can get...