Hello and welcome to Let's Talk About It. This is Taylor, your host and today's episode

I am thrilled and I'm also really really nervous. I am usually not nervous to interview

people but today's episode I was so excited and so nervous to interview our guest. So today's

topic is going to be around the racial origins of fat phobia based on Dr. Sabrina Strings

book, Fearing the Black Body. So I'll give you all a short little intro here to who Dr.

Strings is and then we will get straight into this interview because there's a lot to unpack

here and before we get into it I do want to highly encourage you to pick up her book

at your local bookstore, order it for delivery, highly highly recommend getting this book.

You will hear me praise it throughout. It's just it was amazing. So a little bit about

the author Dr. Sabrina Strings is an associate professor of sociology at the University of

California Irvine. She's been featured in dozens of venues, BBC News and PR, Huff Post,

H Media, Goop. She's contributed op-eds for New York Times and Scientific American. She's

a certified yoga instructor and her work on yoga has been featured in the feminist

wire at Yoga International and LA yoga. Her book, Fearing the Black Body, the racial

origins of fat phobia has been named and NYU Press Best Cellar. It was awarded the 2020

Best Publication Prize by the Body and Embodiment Section of the American Sociological Association

and you can keep up with all of Sabrina's latest stuff on her website, SabrinaStrings.com

and you can also follow her on Twitter at S.A. Strings. Highly recommended, I am like

fan-girling over the fact that I even got to have her on this podcast y'all. One of my

favorite episodes and favorite guests I've ever had. We're going to talk about Thearing

the Black Body talking about, you know, the history of fat phobia and its racial origins.

So let's talk about it. All right, welcome Sabrina to the show. Thank you so much for being

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