NAAFA welcomed author, podcaster and activist Dr. Joy Cox! Dr. Cox spoke with NAAFA Board Chair Elect and Community Outreach Director, Tigress Osborn, about her new book, Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own, and much more!

The NAAFA 2020 Webinar Series is presented at no cost as a service to fat community and fat-positive folx of all sizes.

Presenter Bio:
Joy Arlene Renee Cox is an ordinary person who has been given an extraordinary opportunity to share stories about people much more fabulous than herself. She is a Philadelphia native, born on the blessed thirty-first day of December. Joy is a claircognizant Capricorn that thrives through connection and love, rooting for the underdogs in life to take their rightful place as overcomers. She is also a doctor, receiving her PhD from Rutgers University–New Brunswick in 2018. Her field of work is centered on fatness, identity, and social change. Reflective of the name she bears, Joy has the cheeks to outsmile her detractors.

Reflective of her work in print, she has the research to back up her claims. While the spotlight has never been a position she’d prefer to stand in, Joy does believe in speaking up and advocating for what’s right. She is the author of Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own, published through North Atlantic Books, and the host of the pro-fat, pro-Black podcast Fresh Out the Cocoon.

Joy has been featured in articles by the Huffington Post and SELF magazine. Joy has also been on several podcasts, such as Positive Nutrition with Paige Smathers and Food Psych with Christy Harrison. Dr. Cox is simply a conduit through which love, wisdom, and justice flow. Her pride is in her people and her values. Her strength is in her disposition and her intuition. Find her online at DrJoyCox.com.

https://freshoutthecocoon.com/
https://www.drjoycox.com/

Venmo - @joycox
Cashapp - $joysrich
drjoycox.com if interested in consults about research or speaking opp.

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