Short Wave
Short Wave
Jul 21, 2020
Fat Phobia And Its Racist Past And Present
Play • 13 min
Where does our preference for thinness really come from? As Sabrina Strings explains in her book, Fearing the Black Body, the answer is much more complicated than health or aesthetics. She argues the origins of modern day fat phobia can be traced all the way back to slavery, and Black people are still dealing with the consequences.

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