0:00 Introduction
0:29 Channel Pivot
0:37 Introduction of the answer
1:00 p.m. Black feminists to follow @MasiyaletiMbewe & @YaaAsanteWaaBa
2:31 How am I doing?!
2:34 Book synopsis
4:03 Elements of the book that struck me
4:06 Manliness seems to be about men (of all sexualities and races) praising or berating women based on their appearance, as if they were inanimate objects.
4:28 The English and wealthy English people flocked to extreme vegetarianism
5:27 Anti-blackness is what was necessary to classify the Celtic Irish and Italians as low-ranking Europeans and yet their whiteness is what saved them from slavery.
5:47 Eating disorders were/are encouraged in order to achieve the desired aesthetic
6:03 Finally, about Lizzo, Chloe and sexualizing facial features…
6:28 Motivations behind unlearning fat phobia
6:51 My pure thoughts on the book
8:43 Society’s preoccupation with beauty
9:13 The work of Steven Underwood and Kimberly Foster that reminds me
9:56 Big Black men are celebrated for their achievements in sports and athletics while being treated like property and feared.
10:08 Black women are forced to have a sexuality that attracts the male gaze
10:17 Summary
10:33 a.m. Exit
The references:
Sabrina Strings website: https://www.sabrinastrings.com/books
Yes, your dating preferences are probably racist: https://the establishment.co/yes-your-dating-preferences-are-probably-racist-e58ae2fd625d/index.html
Being pretty is a privilege, but we refuse to acknowledge it: https://www.allure.com/story/pretty-privilege
Medical Industrial Complex Graphic: https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/medical-industrial-complex-visual/
Racist origins and the functioning of the sexual binary: https://twitter.com/JRYussuf/status/1340109868745801729
Black Boys and Bird-Chests, or the racialized legacy of body dysmorphia among African-American men: https://medium.com/@stevenunderwoodjr/black-boys-and-body-dysmorphia-b85cf97dd32c
WAP and the spectacle of sexual liberation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?vILApR36KgQw&t12s
NBA tells JR Smith to cover up his supreme tattoo or else: https://www.gq.com/story/jr-smith-supreme-tattoo-nba
Healing from body dysmorphia and recovery strategies from self-blame trauma: https://youtu.be/fyLnDPf-WFM
Video in written form:
Responding to Fear of the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings: https://theotherfwordbook.medium.com/responding-to-fearing-the-black-body-the-racial-origins-of- fat-phobia -by-sabrina-strings-fb680e98c683
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