#120 - Fearing the Black Body Part Two - BMI is not just a bogus measure, it is masking medical sexism and racism with Sabrina Strings

In my second interview with Sabrina Strings, PhD, author
of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia,
we discuss why only white women’s bodies were subjects of control
in historical fat phobia. Dr. Strings shares the history of the
BMI development and its flaws. We share personal stories for how
BMI and weight bias in medicine harms people today. Dr. Strings
also shares how she was discouraged from even writing this book.


Visit bitly.com/bkind120 for show notes and episode transcript.


Listen to Part One of the conversation at bitly.com/bkind119.


Sabrina String is an Asst. Professor of Sociology at the
University of California, Irvine. She was a recipient of the UC
Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship with a joint
appointment in the School of Public Health and Department of
Sociology.


She has been featured in The Feminist Wire, Yoga International,
and LA Yoga. Her writings can be found in Signs: Journal of Women
in Culture and Society, Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
of Body Weight and Society and Feminist Media Studies. Sabrina
was the recipient of the 2017 Distinguished Contribution to
Scholarship Article Award for the Race, Gender and Class section
of the American Sociological Association. Fearing the Black
Body is her first book.


Find more about Sabrina: Book | Twitter


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