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Body Image & black well being

Below are the best resources we could find on Body Image and black well being.

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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (Second Edition)

The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength.

Sonya Renee Taylor

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Former NFL Player Discusses Self Body Image | Cut

We asked a former NFL Player to paint a nude self-portrait while discussing his relationship to his body.

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Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system.

Sabrina Strings

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These 7 Black Influencers and Bloggers Are Challenging Fatphobia

To say that fatphobia is not connected to anti-Blackism is to not understand the deep-rooted history between the two.

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Pizza-loving Simone Biles on Having Healthy Body Image

Simone Biles may be one of the greatest athletes in the world—but that doesn’t stop her from eating pizza all the time. She talks to Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric about having a healthy body image, even despite being once being called fat by a rival coach.

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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. In a media landscape dominated by racially biased images of welfare queens and crack babies, Killing the Black Body exposed America’s systemic abuse of Black women’s bodies.

Dorothy Roberts

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No More Mr Muscle: The Activists Championing Body Confidence for Men

Body image issues are rising fast among men. But positivity campaigners are raising the profile of men of all shapes and sizes

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Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl’s Guide to Living Life Unapologetically

Twenty-nine year-old plus-size blogger Stephanie Yeboah has experienced racism and fat-phobia throughout her life.

Stephanie Yeboah

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For Queer Men of Color, Pressure to Have a Perfect Body Is About Race Too

For many of us, men with broad shoulders, narrow hips, taut muscles, and white skin — sun-kissed or pale under hot lights — became an ideal we couldn’t escape. We coveted images of these bodies like treasure, and they educated us in the rules of attraction.

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What Afro-Latinos Want You to Know

Time to talk about micro-aggressions like: “Arregla la raza.”

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