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Episode 319: A New Era with Emma Specter

CW: Some of the topics covered in our conversation may be triggering, especially for those with a history of disordered eating, or if you’ve been subject to size or body-based discrimination. So please be aware of this before listening. 


Doree and Elise have an exciting announcement! Elise is staying on Forever35! They also speak with Emma Specter, culture writer and memoirist (More Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing and the Lust for 'Enough'), about unapologetically having your flashy early aughts fashion moment now, internally dismantling the fatphobic narrative fed to us in that same era, and the thrill of growing up “on the move” as a kid of foreign correspondents.



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