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The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism & Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy & Build Collective Freedom

Fri, May 12

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Sankofa Video, Books, & Café

We're discussing the intersection between racism and diet culture with Chrissy King, author of The Body Liberation Project!

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The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism & Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy & Build Collective Freedom
The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism & Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy & Build Collective Freedom

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May 12, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Sankofa Video, Books, & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA

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About The Book: 

From author and wellness personality Chrissy King, an exciting, genre-redefining narrative mix of memoir, inspiration, and activities and prompts, with timely messages about social and racial justice and how the world needs to move beyond body positivity to something even more exciting and revolutionary: body liberation.

When Chrissy King first joined a gym, she had one goal in mind: to "get skinny." In pursuit of this goal, she fell into the all-too-common cycle of "not enough-ness"; no matter what she achieved, there was always something she felt she needed to change about her body, her appearance, herself. This made her realize the most liberating truth of all: She was not the problem. Diet and fitness industries rooted in white supremacy were the problem; Eurocentric and carefully manufactured beauty standards were the problem; discourses telling her that her happiness was directly tied to her physical appearance were the…

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