Fat Trope Deep Dive Part 3: THE INSPIRATIONAL

Abby and Luz are back for the final installment in their Fat Trope Deep Dive series! After some life updates and recent internet scandal discourse, they talk tankinis, disability stigma, The Biggest Loser, American exceptionalism, Melissa McCarthy, postfeminism, and Rachel Hollis's famous tiger stripes. Support us on Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Find us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @morethantracyt! Abby's Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Luz's Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sources we referenced in this episode: Millard, Jennifer. “Performing Beauty: Dove’s ‘Real Beauty’ Campaign.” Symbolic Interaction , vol. 32, no. 2, 2009, pp. 146–68. JSTOR , Accessed 11 Apr. 2024. Taylor, J., Johnston, J., & Whitehead, K. (2016). A Corporation in Feminist Clothing? Young Women Discuss the Dove ‘Real Beauty’ Campaign. Critical Sociology, 42(1), 123-144. Murray, D. P. (2013). Branding “Real” Social Change in Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty. Feminist Media Studies , 13 (1), 83–101. Meeuf, R. (2016). Class, corpulence, and neoliberal citizenship: Melissa McCarthy on Saturday Night Live . Celebrity Studies , 7 (2), 137–153.

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Fat Trope Deep Dive Part 3: THE INSPIRATIONAL is an episode from More Than Tracy Turnblad by Abby Rose Morris and Luz Ballester.

This episode is 00:58:06 long.

This episode was published on Apr 16, 2024.

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