Writing With Sound: Telling Vulnerable Stories with Ronald Young Jr.

Ronald Young Jr. is the writer and performer of the critically acclaimed podcast series Weight For It (Radiotopia), which was named a best podcast of 2023 by Vogue, Apple, and the New York Times, and won three awards at the 2024 Podcast Academy Awards. Young's work blends memoir, original reporting, cultural criticism, and ear-expanding sound design to ask questions about fatness, fat-phobia, race, class, and gender, looking unflinchingly at the stories we tell ourselves about our bodies, and asking what it would mean to create a world in which all of us-fat and "straight-sized" alike-are truly liberated.

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Monroe Hill House at Brown College, UVA (Google Maps info here)

Parking at UVA Central Grounds Garage