'Lessons of body positivity and neutrality will not win the fundamental fight against racialized misogyny, when racism and sexism combine to create economic inequality.'
showing how repeated school punishments have a lifelong negative impact on students. In the long run, teenagers disciplined for dress code violations risk becoming adults who earn low wages and require food assistance. When it comes to policy, the costs of body exclusion are steep. co-opted body positivity,
Lizzo’s demand that plus-size women of color be seen, appreciated and included is an important declaration that much more work needs to be done. But while lessons of body positivity and neutrality may help girls and women cope with body shaming, these tools alone will not win the more fundamental fight against racialized misogyny.
Changing individual perceptions about what types of bodies are beautiful does not prepare women and girls to understand and act on how educational and health care institutionsout of their bodies. Nor does it help them to grasp how popular notions of proper care, keeping and presentation of the self remakes bodies as “things” that can create value for some while depriving others of power and opportunities.
Empowering girls and women will require that Americans understand that the social worth of bodies isn’t simply a matter of attitude, aesthetics, self-love and inclusion. It is also about power, policy and wealth.
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