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Amanda is Currently Reading

Amanda K is currently reading

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

by Sabrina Strings

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"I feel like I could use some analysis as anchor points for all the historical context. Idk if I missed something but it sounds like the idea of fatness being a moral characteristic started with white intellectual men. I get how it was used to reinforce anti-Black sentiment and how that furthered anti-fat sentiment. But it seems like originated in intellectualism and was then used to support racism." — 8 hours, 46 min ago

Sep 24, 2026 07:39AM

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Book cover for A Princess in Theory (Reluctant Royals, #1)

A Princess in Theory (Reluctant Royals, #1) by Alyssa Cole

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Oh, did you check your MyGeneScreen results? I’m 83% African and 17% European. I have to break it to my mom that we are not, in fact, descended from a Cherokee princess.

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Amanda’s Quotes

“Of course, "white tears" does not refer to all pain but to the particular emotional fragility a white person experiences when they find racial stress so intolerable they become hypersensitive and defensive, focusing the stress back to their own bruised ego.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

tags: race

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