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Body Image (Negative/Poor)

By Psychology Today

What do you think you look like? Body image is the mental representation an individual creates of themselves, but it may or may not bear any relation to how one actually appears.

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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. In a media landscape dominated by racially biased images of welfare queens and crack babies, Killing the Black Body exposed America’s systemic abuse of Black women’s bodies.

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Dorothy Roberts
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In this stunningly illustrated essay collection inspired by the popular podcast Life, I Swear, prominent Black women reflect on self-love and healing, sharing stories of the trials and tribulations they’ve faced and what has helped them confront pain, heal wounds, and find connection.

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Pizza-loving Simone Biles on Having Healthy Body Image

Simone Biles may be one of the greatest athletes in the world—but that doesn’t stop her from eating pizza all the time. She talks to Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric about having a healthy body image, even despite being once being called fat by a rival coach. 

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Simone Biles
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Former NFL Player Discusses Self Body Image | Cut

We asked a former NFL Player to paint a nude self-portrait while discussing his relationship to his body.

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Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl’s Guide to Living Life Unapologetically

Twenty-nine year-old plus-size blogger Stephanie Yeboah has experienced racism and fat-phobia throughout her life.

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Stephanie Yeboah
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Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work.

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Frantz Fanon
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Self-Portrait in Black and White: Family, Fatherhood, and Rethinking Race

The son of a “black” father and a “white” mother, Thomas Chatterton Williams found himself questioning long-held convictions about race upon the birth of his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter―and came to realize that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them, or anyone else.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams
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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (Second Edition)

The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength.

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Sonya Renee Taylor
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