Virgie Tovar Biography

Virgie Tovar is a dissident inventor and one of the country's leading experts and teachers on fat segregation and self-perception. She founded Babecamp, a four-week online school designed to assist women who are ready to abandon diet culture, and she started the hashtag crusade #LoseHateNotWeight. She writes a weekly piece called Take the Cake. Tovar revised the historic collection Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love, and Fashion (Seal Press November 2012), and The Feminist Press will publish her forthcoming true-life book You Have the Right to Remain Fat (August 2018; presently accessible for pre-request). She has a Master's degree in Sexuality Studies, with a focus on the intersections of body size, racism, and sex. Following her graduation from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science in 2005, she went on to host The Virgie Show (CBS Radio) in San Francisco. She was formerly a large size style columnist at BuzzFeed. The New York Times Tech Insider MTV has featured Virgie. Al Jazeera English NPR Yahoo Health, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan Magazine Online, Bust Magazine, and Madame Figaro, a French language magazine. She resides in San Francisco and does seminars and speeches all around the country. Contact a speaker booking agent to inquire about Virgie Tovar and other famous speakers and celebrities' availability.

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