Signe talks to Virgie Tovar about why anger is an integral part of self-acceptance, boundaries are the most powerful B-word, tips for bad body image days (BBIDs), body positivity as a relationship value, and more!
Virgie Tovar is an author, activist and one of the nation's leading experts and lecturers on weight-based discrimination and body image. She holds a Master's degree in Sexuality Studies with a focus on the intersections of body size, race and gender. She is a contributor for
Forbes where she covers the plus-size market and how to end weight discrimination at work. Tovar is the author of
You Have the Right to Remain Fat,
The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color, her new book
The Body Positive Journal, and she’s the host of the
Rebel Eaters Club podcast, just starting season 3. Virgie has been featured by the
New York Times, Tech Insider, BBC, MTV,
Al Jazeera, NPR, Yahoo Health and the San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in San Francisco.