The Body Positive Journal

About Virgie Tovar

Virgie Tovar is an author activist and one of the nation's leading experts and lecturers on weight-based discrimination and body image. She holds a master's degree in sexuality studies with a focus on the intersections of body size race and gender. She is a contributor for FORBES where she covers the plus-size market and how to end weight discrimination at work. She is the founder of Babecamp a self-guided online course designed to help people break up with diet culture. She started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight and in 2018 gave a TedX talk on the origins of the campaign. Tovar edited the anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life Love and Fashion (Seal Press November 2012) and she is the author of You Have The Right To Remain Fat (Feminist Press August 2018) which was placed on the American Library Association's Amelia Bloomer List and The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity For Girls Of Color (New Harbinger Publications 2020). Her podcast REBEL EATERS CLUB is Transmitter Media's first original production and is available on Apple Spotify and Stitcher. Season 2 of the show debuted in January 2021. Virgie has been featured by the New York Times Tech Insider the BBC MTV Al Jazeera NPR Yahoo Health and the San Francisco Chronicle . She lives in San Francisco. Lucila Perini is a digital illustrator based in Buenos Aires Argentina.