With a decade as a body liberation facilitator and a lifetime of lived experience as a fat, biracial, queer, neurodivergent person, Tiana Dodson is well-versed in what it is to exist in a multiply-marginalized body. As an active co-creator of the Syllabus for Liberation, her work addresses how personal, community, and global liberation depend upon each other. Through her consulting services, group offerings, and public speaking, Tiana highlights the ways these systems of oppression are bound together and how we can push back against them.
A little something for you to listen to...
Hiya, Reader!
I'm a Pisces Sun and Moon, which means I am allllllll emotion alllllll the time. [read: moody]
And because of that, I tend to wake up on random days with something on my chest that just. needs. saying. Usually because it's something I've been chewing on and digesting through for some time. What are the results of that? Answer: a super random podcast episode release (non)schedule.
But what luck! I found something to rant about share this week. It's not as polished as I'd like it to be and a bit more rambly than I prefer, but it's out in the world and that's what counts. Imperfect action will always surpass perfectly doing nothing.
So here she is, the latest Live Your Best Fat Life podcast episode: Diversity does not equal Equity and Inclusion.
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Tiana Dodson
With a decade as a body liberation facilitator and a lifetime of lived experience as a fat, biracial, queer, neurodivergent person, Tiana Dodson is well-versed in what it is to exist in a multiply-marginalized body. As an active co-creator of the Syllabus for Liberation, her work addresses how personal, community, and global liberation depend upon each other. Through her consulting services, group offerings, and public speaking, Tiana highlights the ways these systems of oppression are bound together and how we can push back against them.
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