Burnt Toast Podcast & Newsletter

Welcome to Burnt Toast! 

We are an anti-diet, fat positive community about body liberation. 

Burnt Toast is the place where we know it’s okay to eat the cupcake without apology. Where we love a grumpy little walk but also value rest. Where bodies are never a problem to shrink or solve. 

Burnt Toast is your community if you’re fat. If you’re thin (and want to know how to be a better ally). If you are recovering from an eating disorder in any size body. If you just want to burn diet culture and anti-fat bias to the goddamn ground. 

JOIN US at helloburnttoast.com! 

PS. I’m Virginia Sole-Smith, author of the NYT-bestselling FAT TALK: Parenting In The Age of Diet Culture and The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America. As a journalist, I’ve reported from kitchen tables and grocery stores, graduated from beauty school, and gone swimming in a mermaid’s tail. My work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Scientific American and more.