Gendered Bodies and Public Scrutiny by Victoria Kannen with Layla Cameron

Fat Girl Book Club

This is the second of two episodes on Gendered Bodies and Public Scrutiny by Victoria Kannen. This time though I chatted with Layla Cameron, a fat activist based close to my hometown in Vancouver, BC, Canada. You definitely do not have to listen to the first episode to get something out of this conversation but the first conversation provides a framework of the book and of this discussion. We cover a lot of ground including:

• Layla's journey to becoming a fat activist
• Changes Layla has seen in Vancouver
• Differences between Vancouver and Toronto
• Clothing for fat people and the fat tax
• The concept of the third eye
• The elimination of fatness from the discussion in the book
• The fat spectrum
• Fat stigma as the "last" acceptable form of discrimination
• What is a body story and how does that interact with your identity
• How body positivity has been made palatable to the masses
• The Well Meaning Stranger
• Let your freak flag fly!!!
• Staring and the gaze
• What resistance means to Layla
• Fat Joy and body movement
• The ultimate radical act

Layla's Links
Layla's Website
Stay Fat Website
Layla's work
Fat in YVR podcast

Fat Girl Book Club Links
Patreon page
Fearless Podcasting
Fat Girl Book Club IG

Episode Links
Gendered Bodies and Public Scrutiny by Victoria Kannen
Bodies by Susie Orbach
Exile in Pride by Eli Claire
Thickening Fat: Fat bodies, intersectionality and social justice edited by May Friedman, Carla Rice, Jen Rinaldi
Big: Stories about life in plus-sized bodies edited by Christina Myers
Fat Girls Hiking IG
Fat Girls Hiking Documentary