@lexodonosaurus

I just finished this book, Eating While Black, Food Shaming and Race in America by Psyche Williams-Forson and it was pretty fascinating. Her perspective of how food shaming contributes to people’s disconnection from their culture, and therefore a different state of dis-ease offers a lot of insight into how I’ve internalized a lot of shame and shaming tactics as a black woman myself. I’ve independently identified some of the ways social media and trad media’s food and wellness trends can lead to a life of continued health complications (I.e. fad diets, food obsessions, supplements & medications) but I haven’t ever considered much the roles race play in what food is deemed “clean & healthy” vs “dirty and bad.” As Williams-Forson explains, commonly addressed food deserts are only one cog of a large systemic wheel geared toward policing black bodies. There are many layers of economic, cultural, and social aspects to everyone’s relationship to food, & black people are not excluded from that!

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