A review by laurenleigh
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

challenging informative medium-paced

3.5

I agree with the conclusion here that anti-fat bias is absolutely tied up with racism and misogyny. However, I don’t quite know if the evidence provided was as strong as it could be. Maybe it’s because I was listening. There was a lot of discussion of artworks that I thought might be pictured in the book for a better understanding, which I’ve missed out on. And I’m often listening while driving or doing other things so I can’t really stop to find the image. Or maybe the narrator just didn’t work for my brain. I guess it was just a denser book than I was anticipating.