Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings with Natasha Ngindi - a podcast by Jennifer Radke

The hottest book to read right now in body liberation spaces is Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings. There is a reason for that. This book is brilliant. This is the answer if anyone asks for an in-depth discussion of the connection between racism and fat phobia. Strings goes century-by-century explaining how slowly the ideas of race and the thin ideal became one connected idea about what it means to be black. I chatted with Natasha Ngindi about this book and as intense as this book is, our conversation highlighted some of the main ideas. We talked about:

-Natasha’s body acceptance and food freedom journey
-Who is scared of the black body?
-The fallacies of racial science
-The connection between racism and fat phobia
-The role of the protestant church in fat phobia and racism
-The difference in ideas between popular culture and medicine
-Our desire to be loved and how that perpetuates the objectification of women
-The role of magazines and social media in creating a thin ideal

This discussion is so important and I hope our chat helps you to think about how fat phobia is racist. Keep reading everyone!

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