Dec 7, 2024
I just met Dr. Sabrina Strings! She was the keynote speaker at a gala for the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals and gave an incredible presentation. I’m geeking out
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I just met Dr. Sabrina Strings! She was the keynote speaker at a gala for the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals and gave an incredible presentation. I’m geeking out
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Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Sabrina Strings, 2019)
"Renaissance artists and intellectuals in England and the Low Countries often harbored a romance for Neoplatonic austerity.
Rubens was, surprisingly perhaps, counted in this number.
For though he is remembered for painting round and fleshy women with skin “white as snow,” he himself observed a strict diet.
The strapping Peter Paul would have none of this “flabbiness” for himself.
He was known to rise at 4:00 a.m. and eat little throughout the day so that his stomach and its digestion would not get in the way of his intellectual and artistic endeavors.
The affectations of these artists, philosophers, and scientists may not have represented those of the average seventeenth-century man, but they slowly came to represent those of the typical intellectual.
By the mid-eighteenth century, the archetype of the thin and refined male student and thinker was widespread, particularly in England.
Still, sentiments about male slimness were divided.
While some people continued to believe that a lean physique was a laudable display of a man’s ambition and dedication to higher pursuits, others claimed that it represented a moribund seriousness and a complete abandonment of healthy living.
Thus, during the seventeenth century, when fatness began its slow decline into disrepute, it was concerns over ascetics and not aesthetics that drove the distaste for fat male bodies."
💛Happy Fat Liberation Month from FFL!💛
All this month we will be sharing fun facts and information specifically about Fat Liberation, its history, as well as information on how to combat Anti-Fat Bias and its origins. We'll touch on the Medical Industrial Complex, the intersection of LGBTQIA2S+ identities and fatness, and the Anti-Black Origins of fatphobia. And of course, it wouldn't be FFL without some food recommendations -- this time from Black Owned Businesses!
We are now diving into the topic on the Anti-Black origins of Fatphobia Sabrina Strings articulates with nuance on the history of how these two became intertwined. The book is a great resource and you can find it here!
Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Sabrina Strings, Ph.D. explains how Western society went from Rubenesque ideals to fat phobia.
these white ppl are insane, the venus de medici is fat???? fatphobia rots your brain
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Hey y’all. So there are plenty of folks who want to get into fat liberation but don’t know where to start. I would recommend starting off with these two books: “Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness” by Da’Shaun L. Harrison (they are nonbinary and they use they/them pronouns) and “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia” by Sabrina Strings. I also recommend listening to the podcast Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back. The podcast is available on Spotify, Apple podcasts, Audible and any other app you use to listen to podcasts. They also have a website so you can listen to all of the episodes they post. Just type Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back and you’ll find their website. They post a new episode roughly every two Sundays.
Diets are rooted firmly in white supremacy.
TBR Pile Review: Fearing the Black Body - The Racial Origins of Fatphobia, by Sabrina Strings
TBR Pile Review: Fearing the Black Body – The Racial Origins of Fatphobia, by Sabrina Strings
Format: 283 pages, PaperbackPublished: May 7, 2019 by New York University PressISBN: 9781479886753 (ISBN10: 1479886750) In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the historical development of prothin, antifat ideologies deployed in support of Western, patriarchal white supremacy. Beginning in the aesthetic ideals circulated by Renaissance thinkers…
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