As part of our #BodyPositivityInColor campaign and in recognition of Black History Month, Sherronda J. Brown writes about the larger implications of society’s policing of natural Black hair through a lens that provides cultural and historical context, emphasizing why hair should be a focus of Body Positivity discussions for Black people. This essay...
Category: Body Positivity In Color
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UGLY: How Beauty Was Built Upon White Supremacy
In this essay for #BodyPositivityInColor, Vanessa Rochelle Lewis explores the concept of “ugly” and how it depends on white supremacist, colonialist, cisheteronormative, misogynistic, and ableist constructs of what defines beauty. She explores these ideas through history and how it exists and thrives within our current society. This essay contains mentions of sexual assault...
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There Is No Liberation For All Bodies Without The Liberation of Fat Black Women And Femmes
In her piece for our #BodyPositivityInColor campaign, Sydney Greene writes about how the body positivity community centers and celebrates cisgender, thin, white women and erases why we need fat acceptance and ignores the labor of fat Black women and femmes who started the fat acceptance movement as a need for liberation. By Sydney...
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How Mainstream Body Positivity Has Failed Us
To launch our #BodyPositivityInColor campaign, Sherronda J. Brown discusses why the mainstream movement needs an intervention and how decolonizing our ideas about body composition and function, while centering queer, trans/GNC, fat, and disabled BIPOC and our rage, can help move the conversation to a place where we can imagine more than just positivity and self-love...