This curve model wants you to stop thinking the word fat is offensive - it's not
This curve model wants you to stop thinking the word fat is offensive - it's not
- August 19, 2020
- Sabrina Strings, sociology, Pop Sugar (Medium), Aug. 19, 2020
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Kendra Austin recommends reading Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat
Phobia by Sabrina Strings, PhD, assistant professor of sociology at the University
of California, Irvine. Through Strings's research for her book, she identified that
fatphobia has ties all the way back to the slave trade when eating and body size became
characteristics of racial identity to differentiate between who were slaves and who
were free.
For the full story, please visit https://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/model-kendra-austin-interview-fatphobia-47706124.
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