# The Hidden Labor of Traveling While Fat, Queer, and Disabled Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/messy-liberation-feminist-conversations-about-politics-and-pop-culture-6952884/the-hidden-labor-of-traveling-while-fat-queer-and-disabled Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/messy-liberation-feminist-conversations-about-politics-and-pop-culture-6952884/the-hidden-labor-of-traveling-while-fat-queer-and-disabled.md Podcast: [Messy Liberation: Feminist Conversations about Politics and Pop Culture](https://stenobird.com/podcast/messy-liberation-feminist-conversations-about-politics-and-pop-culture-6952884) Published: 2026-04-13T13:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/ba92f851 Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/ba92f851/eb173163.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/messy-liberation-feminist-conversations-about-politics-and-pop-culture-6952884/episodes/the-hidden-labor-of-traveling-while-fat-queer-and-disabled Duration seconds: 2812 ## Resource Get "Liberate Your Business" by Becky Mollenkamp https://liberateyourbusiness.com/ Becky Mollenkamp and Taina Brown get into the often-overlooked politics of travel — from queer safety and fat-body accessibility to the colonial mindset baked into Western travel culture. They explore how identity shapes every aspect of a trip, why travel is both a privilege and a political act, and what it actually looks like to show up in someone else's space with humility, curiosity, and respect. In This Episode, We Get Into: How Taina and her wife navigate travel as queer, fat-bodied, disabled women of color — including the research they do before choosing a destination The exhausting labor of traveling with multiple marginalized identities: wheelchair assistance, medications, masking, claustrophobia, seatbelt extenders, and more Why Europe — despite its appeal — can be deeply inaccessible for fat and disabled travelers, and why the Americans with Disabilities Act is actually one of the US's most important pieces of legislation The colonial mindset embedded in how Americans (especially wealthy white Americans) show up abroad — from demanding McDonald's in Peru to being obnoxiously loud in spaces that have different cultural norms How the cost of air travel continues to widen the gap between the haves and have-nots, and what it means when only the most elite get to see the world The difference between curating your travel experience and showing up as an entitled American tourist who expects to be accommodated Becky's life-changing high school trip to the USSR — and why she believes international travel at a formative age is one of the greatest gifts a young person can receive Taina's experience at a travel company in LA, and some of the most entitled client behavior she witnessed firs… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/messy-liberation-feminist-conversations-about-politics-and-pop-culture-6952884/episodes/the-hidden-labor-of-traveling-while-fat-queer-and-disabled/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/messy-liberation-feminist-conversations-about-politics-and-pop-culture-6952884/the-hidden-labor-of-traveling-while-fat-queer-and-disabled.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.