When TikTok user, Slim Kim, posted a video expressing how much she loves 'being skinny,' she set off a wave of internet discourse. What's the line between loving your body and dog-whistling fatphobia? This week, host Brittany Luse is joined by authors Emma Specter and Kate Manne to find out: what's so wrong with loving being skinny?Then, Brittany goes on a field trip to the Anime NYC convention. She and IBAM producer Alexis Williams venture out to find out how generations of Black folks have found comfort, confidence, and fandom in the genre.Support public media and receive ad-free listening & bonus content by joining NPR+ today: https://plus.npr.org/Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. This week, we're connecting the dots between shapewear, fears, and President Trump. I know, I know. How are all of these things connected? Well, we're going to find out with Emma Spector.
She's an author and culture writer for Vogue magazine and Kate Mann. She's an author and philosophy professor at Cornell University. Emma, Kate, welcome. Welcome to It's Been a Minute.
Thank you. Thanks so much for having me.
So good to have you both. Just out of curiosity, what is your favorite thing to be?
I would say rational, kind, hopefully, and political.
Oh, I like those. Those are good descriptors.
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