Virgie Tovar is an author, activist, and a leading expert and lecturer 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 , and she is the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat , which was placed on the American Library Association's Amelia Bloomer List, and The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Colour . Her podcast, Rebel Eaters Club, is Transmitter Media's first original production and is available on Apple, Spotify, and Stitcher. 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.roduction and is available on Apple, Spotify, and Stitcher. 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.roduction and is available on Apple, Spotify, and Stitcher. 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.roduction and is available on Apple, Spotify, and Stitcher.

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.