Many (all?!) of us are carrying real fear right now. Our sense of safety feels frayed, the future less certain, and the world harder to trust. In moments like this, fat liberation and fat joy feel like necessary refusals, deliberate acts of resistance in a world that benefits from our fear and self-erasure. So, I’m going to keep sharing about and enrolling into Fat Joy Creation Lab, a place for fat folks to bring tangible, liberatory projects to life and thereby resist fascism. This is one of those posts.
After over a year and a half on ‘pause’, I’m back at the Fat Joy podcast mic bringing you a capsule collection of conversations with fat creatives who have turned their ideas into tangible offerings in the world…which is what Creation Lab does. I hope you have as much fun listening as I did making it! You can watch here or on YouTube and listen anywhere you get your podcasts.
In this episode of the Fat Joy Creation Lab capsule collection, Sophia talks with longtime fat liberation educator, podcaster, and consultant Vinny Welsby (they/them) about building meaningful work over time without burning out or shrinking yourself to fit.
They explore creativity as a source of joy, a tool for connection, and a quiet force for cultural change. From podcasting before feeling “ready,” to building a consulting practice that brings fat liberation into corporate spaces, Vinny shares what it looks like to make things imperfectly and keep going anyway.
In this episode, they talk about:
Why your first drafts, first episodes, and first offerings are supposed to be messy
Turning an idea into a Minimum Viable Product instead of waiting for perfection
Fat visibility as an act of resistance, especially in business and leadership
This episode is for you if you’re holding an idea that won’t leave you alone — and you’re ready to take one imperfect, brave step toward bringing it into the world.
Vinny Welsby (they/them) is a fat activist and diversity, equity and inclusion leader. They are a world-leading expert on dismantling anti-fat bias and diet culture, a TEDx speaker, podcast host and best-selling author. Vinny is trans-non-binary and is dedicated to shifting how society views fat and queer bodies through education and compassion.
When Vinny isn’t talking about DEI stuff they love snuggling with their dog, cross-stitching swear words and singing in a pop choir.
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