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  1. Body Impolitic - Blog Archive - » Missing Links - Laurie Toby Edison: Photographer on 06 Dec 2006 at 7:54 pm

    [...] The wonderful women at Racialicious found this article on a phenomenon we’ve seen increasing in the years we’ve been doing this work: increasing fatphobia in the African-American community. Racialicious reprints without comment; we’d like to say two things: First, this was beginning when we were working on Women En Large in the early 1990s and now it’s endemic. Laurie sees thin African-American teens seeing themselves as fat, as teens from other groups do: a very sad transition. Second, the link itself is informative and useful, but problematic. BlackProf isn’t sure what he thinks about fat women, and his ambivalence comes through a bit too much for our taste. [...]