Black girls (and women) don’t get some kind of “Get-Out-of-Weight-Stigma-Free” card. Contrary to popular belief, especially among many White people, weight stigma exists in the Black community and harms fat Black women wherever we may be (Daufin, 2015, 2016). As a visibly identifiable, higher weight African American woman who is a Health At Every Size (HAES) expert, Fat Studies scholar, and fat liberation activist, I spend much of my time negotiating weight stigma in the White community and communities of colour, including African American spaces.

Daufin, E-K. (2019). Thick sistahs and heavy disprivilege: Black women, intersectionality, and weight stigma. In M. Friedman, C. Rice, & J. Rinaldi (Eds.), Thickening fat: Fat studies, intersectionality and social justice (pp. 160–170). Routledge.