Cultish by Amanda Montell with Amanda Scriver

Fat Girl Book Club

The guest on this week's show is a repeat guest. I did a wonderful roundtable chat with a bunch of the authors from Big: stories about life in plus-sized bodies and Amanda was one of them. I started listening to her podcast and she had the author of Cultish: the language of fanaticism on her show and it just felt so connected to diet culture, so of course I had to have it on the show. During this conversation, Amanda and I talked about:

• Are audio books real books?
• Amanda's body acceptance journey
• Amanda is in the public eye, so. how does she handle questions and comments from others while protecting her mental well-being?
• How Amanda first found out about this book
• What are the characteristics of a cult?
• Amanda's cult recruitment experience
• Language techniques of cults
• Why media literacy is so important
• #bodyexhausted
• Fitness cults and diet cults
• What is gamification?
• Is body positivity or fat activism cultish?
• High Low Brow Podcast inspired cult game

Have a listen and let me know what you think.
Keep reading everyone!

Amanda's Links

High Low Brow Pod website

Amanda's IG

Amanda's Twitter

Fat Girl Book Club Links

How to Stop Hating What You See in the Mirror online course

Fat Girl Book Club Patreon page

Fat Girl Book Club IG

Show Links

The Project by Courtney Summers

Amanda's Book Recommendations

Wordslut by Amanda Montell

Belly of the Beast by Da'Shaun L. Harrison