The body liberation project : how understanding racism and diet culture helps cultivate joy and build collective freedom
When Chrissy King first joined a gym, she had one goal in mind: to 'get skinny.' In pursuit of this goal, she fell into the all-too-common cycle of 'not enough-ness'; no matter what she achieved, there was always something she felt she needed to change about her body, her appearance, herself. This made her realize the most liberating truth of all: She was not the problem. Diet and fitness industries rooted in white supremacy were the problem; Eur...