Tag: diet culture
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Beyond Dress Sizes: An African Woman’s Journey to Body Freedom.

Coming Home to My Body—how I broke up with diet culture and learned to love my Afrocentric self. I was in college when I overheard two boys talking about me. “She’s alright,” one said, “but she has bad skin.” How rude! I didn’t even have acne in my early teens, but I struggled in my…