It was her grandmother's stories … that inspired Sabrina Strings, who is now a sociology professor at the University of California, Irvine, to pursue research on the history of fat-phobia — the fear of fatness due to the stigmatization of weight — in the Western world. … Strings' research provides context around the social and cultural issues related to weight — and the legacy of racist and outdated ideals embedded in many of our common assumptions. "We cannot deny the fact that fat-phobia is rooted in anti-Blackness. That's simply an historical reality," she said.
 
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