How Diet Culture is Erasing Cultural Foods with Dr. Hortencia Jiménez
There is an intersection between cultural foods, racism, oppression, and diet culture. In this episode, Maria, Elizabeth and Tara speak with Dr. Hortencia Jiménez, a sociologist who has a mission to heal food and body image through UNdieting. She is leading the way with an indigenous, intersectional, social & racial justice lens.
Topic discussed in this episode:
The connection between systemic racism and diet culture.
How food has been racialized from a sociological lens.
How to embrace cultural foods, while finding balance in your diet.
What role the patriarchy plays in diet culture.
How Dr. Hortencia Jiménez entered into the anti-diet space.
The damage that diet culture is doing to heritage and relationships
Thinking of food as more than just calories.
How to take action from this episode and continue to normalize this conversation.
Dr. Jiménez was born in Nayarit, México and raised in Watsonville, California. She spent her childhood summers and teenage years working in the fields, picking raspberries alongside her grandmother. Dr. Jiménez is the first in her family to earn a doctorate degree from both her maternal and paternal side of the family. She received her B.A and M.A in Sociology from San Jose State University and Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Hortencia Jiménez is a Sociology professor at Hartnell College and founder of the Sociology Club and co-founder of the Student Parent Club.
“Diet culture has gaslighted us to think our uniqueness is the problem.”
Connect with Dr. Hortencia Jiménez:
Website: http://hortenciajimenez.com
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