In her upcoming book, Fat Girls in Black Bodies, Dr. Joy Cox contends with the systemically harmful treatment of fat Black girls and...

To Cox, these kinds of conversations are imperative for patients to begin healing. “What needs to happen is relationship-building,” she...

In light of the current season of anti-racism, how can we use our intuition to be better allies and advocates? Political action as a tool...

I joined Christy Harrison to talk about how we can fight back against internalized weight stigma and body shame, how intersecting...

When Joy Cox, an academic in New Jersey, was 16, she went to the hospital with stomach pains. The doctor didn’t diagnose her dangerously...

Diet talk (and anti-fat talk) is also culturally normalized, especially among women, explains Joy Cox, Ph.D., an activist and researcher...

Number 20. - New Jersey-based activist and researcher Joy Cox, Ph.D. focuses on fat acceptance and intersecting identities, having...

AT THIS POINT it’s been made to seem like common sense: Larger-bodied people are at higher risk from this pandemic. “Those who are...