Phat / Fat
Phat / Fat
- May 26, 2022
- Sabrina Strings, sociology, Truth be told with Tonya Mosley, May 26, 2022 (Podcast)
Our nation’s obsession with thinness refuses to acknowledge that the ideal, at its core, is racist. How do we get beyond the belief that bigger Black bodies are a problem? And instead, allow ourselves, no matter what size, to take up space? Guests: Sabring Strings, Ph.D., [UCI associate professor of sociology], scholar, and author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. ….
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