Jamil: Unfortunately, these conversations almost always have to happen in the worst and most clumsy and violent way in order for the most people to hear about it. Outrage sells. We need to stop diagnosing people with our eyes. How do you think growing up having this perspective on disability and illness has influenced you as an adult and professional later in life?
Now I look at my body as my best friend; my ride or die. I do everything I can to try and look after it. Sturm: What do you feel is the biggest challenge being a chronically ill woman and an outspoken advocate who belongs to different minorities in Hollywood, especially compared to your non-disabled colleagues?
I have to work harder. I have to plan more. I have to be more careful. I hurt more. And sometimes they tell us we have more limitations than we have. If I end up on the cover of magazines and people can show my stretch marks and my scars and my bendy joints, I want young people to feel that at least some of their dreams can come true, too. I want them to feel represented in me. Jamil: And we can have a wonderful social life and understanding friends to help look after us. Jamil: When you have a disability, and then you see people who are non-disabled do these things with their bodies, like that guy who climbs that cliff without a rope, I get angry.
I get mad when I see people taking risks with their bodies like that. Why are we ice skating? Are you kidding me with ice skating? Are you kidding me with being on wet ice on a knife — like, gliding on a knife through wet ice? So, I am very grateful to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome for keeping me away from these stupid activities that I would definitely participate in otherwise. Sturm: Oh yes, even hiking is risky for me because I fall all the time. Eventually, this shit catches up with everyone.
Everyone my age, whether they have a disability or not, is wanting to be a bit more careful with themselves. How did you get into those fields? Jamil: No, not body positivity. Body positivity is a different social-political movement that is hugely important, but not mine. I advocate for body neutrality, which has more to do with eating disorders. I grew up very marginalized and very lonely and feeling a lot of shame around the state of my life as a result of our society ostracizing anyone who was different.
And I was sick and brown and secretly queer, and a girl and taller than I was supposed to be for a girl and chubbier than I was supposed to be for a girl. And now to suddenly find myself accepted by the world —This is the same face. I just want to use it to raise awareness about all the things that year-old me cared about.
And now you also have a podcast with the same name. Can you tell me a little about those projects and what you want to achieve with them? Jamil: iWEIGH started as a rant online where I was sick of the way that women are still—20 years since I first developed an eating disorder—valued by the number on a scale.
These women have amassed billions of dollars or won countless awards or broken world records, and the only thing we care about is how little space they take up in the world. I was very offended by that. So, I spoke out about it, and it must have touched a nerve because 10, people, mostly women, wrote back to me that same day as a response to a post I wrote about what I weigh, which is I weigh my relationship, my financial independence, my friendships, my contributions to society, my failures, my triumphs.
Within three days, I started an Instagram account. I thought it would be a phase. Rather than punishing those people for being a product of their environment, it would be more of a solution-based approach to give them somewhere to start. I learn publicly from great educators on the podcast and the YouTube channel.
And I make it with a great team of people. Jamil: Everything, truly, everything. Immigration, disability, mental health, shame, eating disorders, body image in general, race. We want to try and do both in the same episode, but also not put someone with autism under a magnifying glass for an hour to have to speak for everyone, as if people with autism are a monolith.
The rise of fascism depends on our division. And the only way to combat that is with unity. People are learning a lot from the podcast. I am learning a lot. There is no trolling. Sturm: How do you handle belonging to so many intersectional communities and the challenges that arise due to trying to satisfy all of those with your advocacy and work? Jamil: I think two ways. I pay for the company. I fund everything. I come up with the ideas. My job is just to make sure that I represent as many as possible.
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