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The racist origins of fat phobia

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Introduction

Ana North: Where does fat phobia come from? How do we move beyond the sometimes shallow messages about self love that we see on our phones and toward real justice for people living in all kinds of bodies? Deshan Harrison: Weight discrimination actually has its roots in anti blackness. Anita north: Your very existence is political, and the only way to address it is through radical change. Dechan Harrison: When you grow up as a marginaized person, you don't have the choice to be a political or non political.

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