Black women's bodies are already the subject of intense scrutiny policing for years

since the ages of slavery, colonisation, all of these things.

Our bodies have been the subject of scrutiny.

Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Witten, where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.

Hello, welcome back to doing it. I'm really excited to introduce my guest this week, the fantastic Stephanie Yerboa.

Steph is an author, journalist and content creator.

Her book Fatally Ever After, a black fat girl's guide to living life unapologetically, came out last month, and it is provocative, heartwarming, vulnerable and an insightful read. And I'm really grateful to

Steph for writing it and coming on this podcast and talking with me all about it. In this episode,

we talk about the history and difference between the fat acceptance and body positive movements

and how the body positive movement

has changed over the years in ways that have made a lot of its early pioneers and champions

not feel like it's for them anymore. We chat about dating and Steph is really open and

vulnerable about her experiences and feelings of loneliness, which can be hard to admit.

And we talk about sexuality in the context of the desexualization of fat black women,

but then also the hypersexualization of black women, especially in the media.

Steph breaks down what they are and the racist stereotypes and assumptions we hold

about black women's bodies and their sexualities. Just a quick content warning. In this episode,

Steph briefly talks about sexual abuse and violence to minors in relation to R. Kelly. We will have

timestamps for that in the description and in the show notes on our website.

So if you need to or want to avoid that bit, you can look after yourself first.

As usual, you can find more information and links to everything we talked about in this episode,

in the show notes over on doing itpodcast.com.com.

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