Episode 42: Your Personal Pizza

In this week’s action-packed episode, we talk about Disney’s Godmothered, the hostile reaction to James Cordon’s performance in The Prom, as well as fat activism in Judaism and the continuing media fight over so-called childhood obesity.

Pop Culture

• Godmothered

• IndieWire | James Corden in ‘The Prom’ Sparks Critic Outrage: ‘Offensive’ and ‘Worst Gay-Face’

• Tablet | Fat Liberation’s Jewish Past—and Future

Lizzo Watch

• Insider | 15 celebrities who had the best style of 2020

• TikTok | The Year on TikTok: Top 100

• Refinery29 | “We Can’t Keep Letting Lizzo Do The Heavy Lifting!” – Reframing The Fat Body

Childhood Obesity

• New York Times | Are ‘Kidfluencers’ Making Our Kids Fat?

• New York Times | Leave Fat Kids Alone