1/25/2024 0 Comments Faqt black womanBlack women are often excluded from the body/fat positivity movement – a movement which like the Feminist movement, is a movement that prioritizes and celebrates the thoughts, feelings, opinions and achievements of white women, with a small number of token black women to help fill up the ‘look at us being diverse!’ quota. It’s not just within the media that this happens too. ![]() Sure, you get a few of us who are casted only as tokens within the mainstream in order to fill up the diversity quota, but on a whole, I’m so sick of black women being seen as either the comedic mammy role, the hilarious and insulting meme/caricature or the one token person in a blanket of white faces. What annoys me about the portrayal of us in the media is that it seems to exclusively be gazed at from a male, fetisized sexual gaze. When I Googled ‘fat white woman’, I saw loads of articles talking about how favourable white, fat women are to black men and a bunch of body positivity posts. ![]() Almost immediately, I was inundated with countless offerings of pornographic ‘BBW Ebony’ websites, thinkpieces on how unfavourable black fat women are to men, countless ‘sassy black woman’ memes and more pornographic images. The other day, I decided to play around with my Googles and typed in ‘fat, black woman’. So I recently stated on social media that i’d like to start writing about subjects I feel strongly about, and I thought I’d start off by writing briefly about a topic that bothers and frustrates me greatly the portrayal of the fat, black woman within the media and to a greater extent, society.
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