What Doesn't Kill You Makes You... Thinner?
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You... Thinner?
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About this listen
We talk about the pressure young women are facing to get (and stay) skinny, how thinness became politicized and how fascism preys on women's self-doubt to keep us in line.
Further Reading
Eliza McLamb, “It’s Never Over” Substack Essay
Sisipho Mbuli, “Fascism thrives on women's self-doubt” Substack Essay
“Internet Thin Culture Is Back” by Michelle Santiago Cortés (The Cut)
“How the far right is using thinness to radicalise women and teen girls” by Lois Shearling (openDemocracy)
“We Still Suck at Talking About Celebrities’ Bodies” by Chantal Fernandez (The Cut)
The paradox of online “body positivity” by Rebecca Jennings (Vox)
“On keeping women skinny so they don’t get too powerful” Substack Essay
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