Phat / Fat
Phat / Fat
- May 26, 2022
- Sabrina Strings, sociology, Truth be told with Tonya Mosley, May 26, 2022 (Podcast)
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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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