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A cookbook author turned powerlifter explains how lifting heavy changed how she sees her own body.
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In this episode
- How powerlifting shifted the focus from how a body looks to what it can do
- What building a queer domestic life through food and community looks like in practice
- How writing about a personal transformation can help others name their own experiences
- The path from struggling with body image to competing in a strength sport
About this episode
Today on PRIDE, we welcome Julia Turshen, a New York Times best-selling cookbook author and… powerlifter! Like a lot of us, Julia struggled with body image and the societal pressure to take up less space. Powerlifting has helped her learn to love what her body can do.We’ll talk about how she became one of the best-known cookbook authors in the US, her cultivation of a queer domestic life through her weekly Zoom cooking classes, and how Roxane Gay helped her share her transformative experience with powerlifting through a new essay collection.
Julia Turshen’s ROXANE GAY & series essay, called “Built for This: The Quiet Strength of Powerlifting” is now available on Everand.com, a digital content subscription.
You can read or listen to it here (this link will automatically apply a promo code that gives you a 60 day free trial to Everand). If you already have an Everand/Scribd account, you can read the essay here or listen to it here.
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