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Share Read more to understand why diet culture s rejection of larger bodies is inherently racist. By Chrissy King February 09, 2021
It s been more than five years since I became a fitness and strength coach. Since then, I ve become very well-acquainted with body liberation and the general body positivity space. But to this day, I can t help but notice that this space continues to be overwhelmingly white.
Body positivity was originally created as an antithesis to diet culture and to help marginalized people (read: fat, queer, trans, bodies of color, and more) feel worthy of self-love because, for too long, society told them they weren t. These days, however, body positivity hashtags on social media are often flooded with photos of non-marginalized bodies (read: cis, thin, white women), and the movement has been co-opted by people who were never intended to be the center of th