Big Calf
When your fatness takes up all the space in the room, where is the room for queerness? On this special Pride episode, Big Calf host Amanda Richards and producer Allison Specketer discuss how growing up as a fat kid kept them from exploring their queerness in different ways — in Amanda's case, getting bullied for her weight in childhood kept her from coming out until her thirties. This episode is about being gay, being fat, and figuring out how both to both inhabit and love those things about yourself.
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Long before the time of Lizzo, many of us searched high and low for a fat celebrity to look up to. On this episode of Big Calf, host Amanda Richards and producer Allison Specketer discuss the fruitless childhood search for a fat celebrity icon, including queen of pantsuits Camryn Manheim.
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On this episode, we're talking to Chala Tyson-Tshitundu about their lifelong passion for food, how they dreamt of turning it into a career, what got in the way, and what brought them back to the pursuit of their dreams, and ultimately, themselves.
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On this episode of Big Calf, we're talking about an important part of any kid's life, but especially if you were a fat kid.
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The word fat is technically a neutral descriptor, but for fat kids, it's often so much more than that. On the second episode of Big Calf, host Amanda Richards and producer Allison Specketer discuss the three-letter word that, for better or worse, means something different to everyone.
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Fat kids experience fatphobia from external sources, but what happens when criticism for your weight also happens at home, and has for generations? Photographer Lydia Hudgens talks about what it's like when fatphobia is a family heirloom.
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A podcast about being the fat kid.
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