Writer carvellwallace began to understand the world’s view of his body around age 7. “My earliest memories are of having a lot of problems with my body,” he says.
There’s a lot of focus in this country on body size — whether it's on Instagram, in advertisements or in Hollywood.
“This kid from your 4th grade class can run fast, this kid’s good at basketball, this kid is good at football, this kid can fight,” Wallace says. “You don’t have a body thing that you can do. It’s in the way of my freedom and liberation.”Sociologist Sabrina Strings agrees Black people have been denied these things.
“My grandmother was herself a slender woman, but she didn’t find thinness something that should be celebrated in the Black community,” Strings says, “and it wasn’t necessarily something that she wanted to be.”
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