Fitness without Anti-Fatness with Ashantis Jones

The Body Competence Podcast

In this episode, Michelle is joined by personal trainer Ashantis Jones (she/they). Michelle and Ashantis talk everything from fitness, to fatness to white supremacy, and ableism, and how these stigmas and systems are tools of oppression and exclusion. Ashantis shares her own fitness journey, including what it's like to be a fitness instructor with a disability. Ashantis shares a fresh perspective on how to decouple fitness from diet culture so that every person, in any type of body, can reclaim the joyful movement they deserve. Follow Ashantis on Instagram and TikTok @iamashantis.
In this episode, Ashantis refers to the way that anti-fat bias impacts medicine because fat people cannot donate their bodies to science upon death. You can read more about these policies and the implications they have on the care that fat people receive in a Popular Science article linked here.
The Body Competence Podcast explores what it means to be and raise body competent humans. In each episode Michelle and her guests talk about getting back in touch with our needs, wants, and desires that were suppressed by the power hierarchies of patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism, anti-fat bias, ableism, and even our own families.
Michelle navigates topics like body positivity, body neutrality, cycle breaking, food neutrality and so much more. This podcast is for you if you are a human or parent trying to imagine a future without diet culture and other toxic intergenerational cycles but aren’t quite sure where to begin.
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