throughout the entirety of this pandemic and now as we enter the am*rican holiday season, many of us have been fielding comments from friends, family members, media, and even strangers that perpetuate fatphobia. fatphobia describes both interpersonal and structural dynamics that marginalize fat, fat-adjacent and plus-size folks. fatphobia is very much tied to anti-Blackness. fatphobia is also tied to capitalism, classism, ableism and the medical industrial complex. this edition of r4bl explores the anti-Black origins of fatphobia and centers the experiences of Black folks as related to fatness, fatphobia and diet-culture.

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book list:

fearing the black body: the racial origins of fatphobia by sabrina strings

fattily ever after by stephanie yeboah

hunger: a memoir of (my) body by roxane gay

the body is not an apology: the power of radical self love by sonya renee taylor

the care and feeding of ravenously hungry girls by anissa gray

heavy by kiese laymon

fat girls in black bodies: creating communities of our own by joy arlene renee cox, phd

#very fat #very brave: the fat girl’s guide to being #brave and not a dejected, melancholy, down-in-the-dumps, weeping fat girl in a bikini by nicole byer

unashamed: musings of a fat, Black muslim by leah vernon

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