Thin is back in, but did it ever leave us?

It's Been a Minute

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🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

When TikTok user, Slim Kim, posted a video expressing how much she loves 'being skinny,' she set off a wave of internet discourse. What's the line between loving your body and dog-whistling fatphobia? This week, host Brittany Luse is joined by authors Emma Specter and Kate Manne to find out: what's so wrong with loving being skinny?

Then, Brittany takes goes on a field trip to the Anime NYC convention. She and IBAM producer Alexis Williams venture out to find out how generations of Black folks have found comfort, confidence, and fandom in the genre.

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0:24.8	Hello, hello, Brittany here.
0:27.2	Before we start the show today,
0:28.7	the end of another year is coming up
0:31.1	and our team is looking back at all the conversations
0:33.7	we've been able to bring to you
0:35.7	about what's going on in culture. Things we could
0:38.5	only do because of your support. You and I dove into some of the biggest cultural shifts in
0:44.9	24, from the movement to make America male again, the Hoctua phenomenon, and the real house
0:51.9	wifurification of Congress. It's not only been a minute.
0:55.8	It's been a year.
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