Welcome to THE SLIMDOWN where Host Heather and her special Slimdown Co-Host Adare discuss body positivity and diversity in the media. Positives and Negatives. 

THIS WEEK we talk about Hollywood and actors who drastically gain and lose weight to take on a role. 

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REFERENCED - RESEARCH ARTICLES AND LINKS:

Renee Zellweger/Bridget Jones 
https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/renee-zellweggers-right-nine-stone-not-overweight/

Welcome to Part 2 of the Girls in Capes interview! Please, if you haven't already, go listen to Part 1 first, where you will learn all about Girls in Capes and the ladies involved in the panel! 

In Part II of this 2 part interview, we discuss PROBLEMATIC MEDIA! Problematic favorites as in problematic creators, problematic FANDOMS, and problematic content. What makes something problematic? Why do we, as consumers of media, continue to support works that are problematic? What can we do to change the problematic media that is popular today?! 

Listen to us discuss OUR problematic favorites as well as flip everything in the opposite direction to works that are more inclusive! Like last week, the moral we want you to take away from this episode is that money talks. Throw your money at the types of stories you want to hear whether it be movies, books, television, what have you! Spend your dollars where they are going to count. Media outlets will recognize this and start creating more diverse works! 

Find Girls In Capes

Website: girlsincapes.com

Facebook: facebook.com/GirlsInCapes

Twitter: @GirlsinCapes

Instagram: @girlsincapes

Links to Titles mentioned in the Episode:

Problematic Fandom Incidents -

• Rick & Morty Riot at McDonalds
• Steven Universe Twitter Bullying (Suicide Attempt)

Personal Problematic Favorites -

• Steven Moffat - read about DR WHO on GIC here 
• Meghan talks about Penny Dreadful - read the article she wrote about it for GIC here
• Emi mentions Citrus, a Yuri title manga turned anime which is now available on Crunchyroll
• FF vs MM fiction article - Dahlia Adler
• Feliza's Problematic Fav: Food Wars! 
• Christina is heartbroken about Joss Whedon because Buffy and Firefly were her favorites and shaped the way she views media today. Read more about Joss Whedon's hypocrisy here. And added quote from an article Christina sent later - "His work has plenty of male gaze and women in refrigerators and some narratively pointless rape scenes—it’s all right there, in hundreds of hours of television and film—but boy, it sure is a lot more comfortable to listen to a guy tell you he’s a feminist than listen to a lot of women telling you he’s not." - Laura M. Browning AV CLUB Article
• His brother Jed Whedon seems to treat women much better in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 
• Examples that the panelists no longer support because of how problematic they are - Fantastic Beasts (because of Johnny Depp allegations), The 100 (because of the treatment of the character Lexa), Supernatural (because of the treatment of women and characters of color)
• Girls in Capes also no longer reviews work written by straight white men. 

Answers to the Instagram Question: "Given the shift in the industry lately, and the push to support female filmmakers/writers/artists, who are some underrated female artists that you think we can support with our dollars? Bonus points if they are ladies (or female identifying) of color."

• Ava Duvernay & A Wrinkle In Time!  <- Love Letter To Black Girls Article 
• Ryan Coogler (Black Panther)
• Feliza's list of author's to follow:
• Audrey Coulthurst (Ink Mistress) 
• Fonda Lee (Jade City)
•  Marjorie M. Liu (Monstress) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29396738-monstress-vol-1?ac=1&from_search=true
• Emily Skrutskie (The Abyss Surrounds Us)
• Leanna Renee Hieber (The Eterna Files) 
• Kelly Thompson (Marvel/Nancy Drew)
• Delilah S. Dawson (Ladycastle) 
• Discussion of Ladycastle brought up Her Land by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
•  Julie Murphy (Dumplin')
• Emily Andras (Wynonna Earp)

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This week on Love Your Bodd, Heather sits down with the Founder of the online publication "Girls in Capes," along with several ladies of the writing team, to talk about representation in geek culture! 

In Part I of this 2 part interview, we discuss "Girls in Capes" and why is it so important today. We also talk about how media influences us from a young age and how that carries over into our adult life/personality. The goal of the discussion is to take a closer look at the way we consume media compared to ways we can support works that are more inclusive. Part 2 takes it much deeper with discussions on problematic favorites and what makes them so "problematic." But you'll have to wait until next week for that! 

One moral we want you to take away from this episode is that money talks. Throw your money at the types of stories you want to hear whether it be movies, books, television, what have you! Spend your dollars where they are going to count. Media outlets will recognize this and start creating more diverse works! 

Find Girls In Capes

Website: girlsincapes.com

Facebook: facebook.com/GirlsInCapes

Twitter: @GirlsinCapes

Instagram: @girlsincapes

Links to Titles mentioned in the Episode:

Childhood Favorites -

• Emi mentions Zoids & Tenchi Muyo!
• Christina mentions the "Protector of the Small" Series by Tamora Pierce 
• Meghan mentions Beetlejuice & Sailor Moon 

Current Favorites (in terms of Representation) -

• Christina mentions One Day At A Time 
• Meghan mentions a "championing their own voices movement" which can be defined as when a marginalized individual writes their own perspective on marginalization
• She also mentions how she used her platform to help champion these voices by linking to their articles in her review of Black Panther, which can be found here! 
• Emi mentions Yuri titles which is a Japanese jargon term for content and a genre involving love between women in manga, anime, and related Japanese media
• She also mentions Crunchyroll as a way to legally stream Anime!

Love Your Bodd Stuffz

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Get Resources: Love Your Bodd is a proud supporter of the Born This Way Foundation - check out their resources page to get help for whatever issue you might be facing - 

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Wanna become a Pop Pilates Instructor? Follow this link to find a training near you: https://www.poppilateslife.com/a/527/osBvwVQc

Outside of the US? Don’t worry you can get online international training here:

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Love Popflex Activewear? Buy here and save:

http://rwrd.io/bqhuiwv

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(Select the bottom right option unless you wanna bite the bullet and sign up for the full monty! Heather will be your coach if you follow the link above!)

The views expressed on this podcast are mine and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer(s).