Under the Weight of It All
This podcast features unfiltered conversations about the full spectrum of the fat experience, centering fat voices while addressing stigma, trauma, and societal attitudes. Hosts Karrington Allure and Felisha Alexus discuss heavy topics with humor and honesty, navigating uncomfortable truths and revisiting lived experiences. The show aims to create space for disenfranchised communities and challenge conventional narratives, offering a long-overdue series of heavy conversations grounded in laughter, honesty, and healing.
Episodes
Episode 18: AINT NO OUTLINE BIH
What happens when the girls freestyle an episode? Chaos. EP. 18: AINT NO OUTLINE BIHWatch as Felisha and Karrington go off script, scrap the outline and just talk some shit. Catch up with them, laugh, talk to current fat topics with some nonsense sprinkled in.Subscribe to our YouTube if you want to SEE more of these necessary and long overdue conversations finally being had!🗣️Leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ra
EP:17 DWF (Dating While Fat Pt.2) ft. Franklin and Jacobi
PLAYAS F*CK UP TOO!!! Sorry this is so late yall. There was a bit of breakdown in communication with the team and part 2 was never posted. So here ya go! Listen as Felisha and Karrington bring on 2 big boys to go ✨Under the Weight✨ of “Dating While Fat”, what we’ve experienced in our past relationships, what playing the field in a fat body is like and the social structures that make Dating While F
Ep. 17 DWF (Dating While Fat) ft. Franklin and Jacobi
Episode 17: DWF (Dating While FAT) Pt 1Watch as Felisha and Karrington bring on 2 big boys to go ✨Under the Weight✨ of “Dating While Fat”, what we’ve experienced in our past relationships, what playing the field in a fat bidy is like and the social structures that make Dating While Fat as uncomfortable as driving while black.Thank you to our guests Franklin and Jacobi for coming on and weighing in
Episode 16: Juneteenth Special
Happy JUNETEENTH! ✊🏾This is for the n*ggas 😝STRICTLY for the n*ggas 🥹Tune in and watch as Felisha Alexus and Karrington Allure deep dive into the history of Juneteenth, the significance of the holiday AND what it feels like celebrating our ancestors and ourselves post slavery🥹 Grab your hibiscus tea or Hennessy 😝🤪 and come have a good old fashioned black ass time with us! ❤️🖤💚Subscribe to our YouT
Episode 15: WE’RE GAY, WE’RE DRUNK, WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT?
🏳️🌈BE WHO YOU AREEEEEEE🏳️🌈Episode 15: Drunk Queer HistoryWatch as Felisha and Karrington go ✨Under the WEIGHT✨ of “GAY DRUNK TRIVIA” while having entirely too much fun and even more to drink! This one’s queer, hilarious, and educational as always 🏳️🌈 So grab a cocktail your favorite gay bestie and watch to see who knows their GAY history 💋🏳️🌈Subscribe to our YouTube if you want to SEE more of
Episode 14: A Seat at the Table featuring Chef Nia
What does it look like to take up SPACE unapologetically?👏🏽Episode 14: A Seat at the Table featuring Chef NiaListen as Felisha and Karrington and our special guest Chef Nia ✨Go Under the WEIGHT✨ of taking up space as fat creatives and entrepreneurs growining businesses in Cleveland! Chef Nia and the team will dig into her experiences as a fat foodie, a married woman and a woman not afraid to take
Episode 13: HEAVY MINDS
How do you show up when you’re struggling just to survive? Episode 13: Heavy MindsThis week is a little different —Felisha and Karrington get vulnerable and talk about what all they have on their plate. The podcast, the state of the nation, our personal lives. This episode is not like the rest it’s a raw look into the humans behind the production. Subscribe to our YouTube if you want to SEE more o
Episode 12: “Just Lose Weight”
Why do people reduce the complexity of weight loss and life in general to one lazy ass sentence?EP. 12 “Just Lose Weight.”Listen as Felisha and Karrington go ✨Under the WEIGHT✨ of why its never “just be healthy” and always “just be thin”. All the dismissivness, fake concern, bullshit intellectual laziness and the audacity of making lifestyle change that simple…but maybe because it’s not about the
Episode 11: Under The Weight of Medical Bias & Neglect
What happens when doctors see weight before patients? WE DIE. Listen as Felisha and Karrington go ✨Under the WEIGHT✨ of medical bias and how that ultimately leads to medical negligence. These are our systems that we should feel safe in, instead we feel shamed. In a place where we should be supported we are left to feel shunned. Thank you to our guest Madeline for the awesome information and being
Episode 10: Surviving Society
Why does society hate fat people? What do we have to do just to make surviving comfortable? EP. 10 Surviving Society and Skinny H*es Getting Scurvy Watch as Felisha and Karrington go ✨Under the WEIGHT✨ of trying to survive in a society with no regard and so much hate for our bodies and the reality of the weight of that on our existence. Subscribe to our YouTube if you want to SEE more of these nec
EP. 9 HEAVY HITTERS CLIP COMP
Over 1.7k subscribers?! WELCOME TO UNDER THE WEIGHT OF IT ALL! Let’s recap! Enjoy these Heavy Hitter Highlights! The best moments of UTWOIA Pod!As we’re growing and enjoying our spring break, ready to transition into a new drop schedule for this next season, we wanted to give you some of our Heavy Hitter moments of ✨Under The Weight of It All✨ thus far. We have the freakiest, the funniest, the fat
EP. 8: First Patreon Teaser Clip
Watch a 30-minute sneak peek of our very first Patreon episode from *Under the Weight of It All Podcast!🙂↔️In this special behind-the-scenes episode, Felisha, Karrington, LA, and Clem open up about the real story behind the podcast. From the very first meeting that sparked the idea to the roles each of us carry today, we talk about the pressure, purpose, and passion that built “Under the Weight o
Episode 7: Fat Drunk History
Did you know fat people have ALWAYS existed? Watch as Felisha and Karrington go ✨Under the WEIGHT✨ of “Fat Drunk History” while having entirely too much fun and even more to drink! This one’s a long one so grab your favorite beverage, snack, or strain 👀before you watch! This one is going to be HEAVY Subscribe to our YouTube if you want to SEE more of these necessary and long overdue conversations
EP. 6: Reverse Fatphobia? (PT 2)
What do you call the shaming of underweight bodies? Felisha and Karrington go ✨Under the WEIGHT✨ of what “Reverse Fatphobia” is, how the overweight and underweight unfortunately relate through racism. Why it isn’t the same as fatphobia— but why body policing is always wrong no matter the body. Mind your fucking business!!!Thank you to Francia (@freezyfran) for being a guest on our new segment “Pho
EP. 6: Reverse Fatphobia? (PT1)
What do you call the shaming of underweight bodies? EP. 6 PT 1: Reverse Fatphobia and White TearsWatch as Felisha and Karrington go ✨Under the WEIGHT✨ of what “Reverse Fatphobia” is, how the overweight and underweight unfortunately relate through racism. Why it isn’t the same as fatphobia— but why body policing is always wrong no matter the body. Mind your fucking business!!!Subscribe to our YouTu
EP. 5: Feeding Generations (PT 2)
Why is being that fat kid a moral failure on the child? Why do fat parents judge their fat kids???EP. 5 Feeding Generations and Healing Fat Kid TraumaWatch as Felisha and Karrington go ✨Under the WEIGHT✨ of the generational transfer of poor eating habits and self talk, how the child is always blamed for their weight and the reality of growing up in an unhealed environment as a fat kid with unprepa
Episode 5: Feeding Generations (PT 1)
Why do fat parents judge their fat kids????? EP. 5. Feeding Generations and Healing Fat Kid TraumaWatch as Felisha and Karrington go ✨Under the WEIGHT✨ of what the reality of growing up in an unhealed environment as a fat kid with unprepared parents! Subscribe to our YouTube if you want to SEE more of these necessary and long overdue conversations finally being had!🗣️Leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating and
Episode 4: No Yitty on OUR Titties (PT 2)
Welcome back as we finish out our conversation! We as large people can't possibly ALL be Lizzo and she doesn't owe us salvation. 👀In this episode of Under the Weight of It All, Felisha and Karrington finanlize their conversation and examination of the cultural expectations placed on Lizzo as a grammy award winning fat performer and what it costs to carry that projection.We discuss the duality of b
Episode 4: No Yitty on OUR Titties (PT 1)
We as large people can’t possibly ALL be Lizzo and she doesn’t owe us salvation. 👀In this episode of Under the Weight of It All, Felisha and Karrington examine the cultural expectations placed on Lizzo as a grammy award winning fat performer and what it costs to carry that projection. We discuss the duality of being celebrated and scrutinized, adored and disciplined, all while navigating a world n
Episode 3: I am Not Confident for Existing
We’re scarrrrring the skinny hoesEP. 3 I’m NOT Confident Existing Watch as Felisha and Karrington go ✨Under the WEIGHT✨ of what the statements “You’re pretty for a big girl” & “OMG! I love your confidence” really mean and why you should probably stop saying it 🤷🏽♀️Subscribe to our YouTube if you want to SEE more of these necessary and long overdue conversations finally being had!🗣️Leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐
Episode 2: Fat on Fat Crime
FAT on FAT Crime with UTWOIA: And these are their stories 🚨🚔 DUN DUN 🚔🚨 Watch this week as Karrington Allure and Felisha Alexus go ✨Under the Weight✨ of their own fat-phobia and why plus size, fat, big bodied people also choose to partake in fat-phobic behavior and how that contributes to our own oppression 🫨Subscribe to our YouTube if you want to SEE more of these necessary and long overdue conve
Episode 1: Fat B*tches Need Love Too
WELCOME TO UNDER THE WEIGHT OF IT ALL!EP 1. Fat B*tches Need Love TooWatch as Karrington Allure and Felisha Alexus go ✨Under the Weight✨ of why fat people deserve love too, the conditioning media does in policing others attractiveness and the effects of that on us as individuals as well as a society.Subscribe to us on YouTube if you want to See more of these necessary and long overdue conversation
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