BONUS: Speaking on Body Liberation with Chrissy King

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BONUS: Speaking on Body Liberation with Chrissy King

Girls Write Now

Jun 07, 2023

In this bonus installment of Speaking in First Draft, host, Kathryn Destin, speaks with the incredible Chrissy King. Former strength coach, writer, speaker, educator, and Girls Write Now honoree, Chrissy entered the P&T Knitwear Podcast Studio during GWN's 2023 anthology launch party to discuss her book The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom. Tune in to hear Chrissy and Kathryn get candid about body image, fatphobia, disordered eating, social media, and collective liberation.

Content Warning: Topics involving and surrounding body dysmorphia/body insecurity and eating disorders are discussed throughout this episode.

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Speaking in First Draft

Speaking In First Draft is an interview podcast platforming the current and next generation of storytellers from the nonprofit Girls Write Now. Released in March 2023, members of the Girls Write Now community share a draft of one of their works in progress and discuss both the writing process and what creative expression looks like to them. Listeners will have the opportunity to engage with the inner machinations and perspectives of writers, producers, and artists from a diversity of episodes and stories.

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