Why everyone should see these TikToks about celebs the media used to call 'fat'
Why everyone should see these TikToks about celebs the media used to call 'fat'
- May 5, 2021
- Sabrina Strings, sociology, HuffPost, May 5, 2021
Expand your reading list, too; make sure it includes works that address ongoing issues with fatphobia and beauty ideals in our culture. Sprengle recommends “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women,” by the aforementioned Naomi Wolf, as well as [UCI Associate Professor of sociology] Sabrina Strings’ “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia.”
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