Sabrina Strings, a sociologist at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of...

“I think oftentimes the moment people hear the term fat, there’s a shrinking back about the term and that’s because of the connotation...

A self-identified fat, Black woman, Dr. Joy Cox explores the intersection of race, size, and health in her book Fat Girls in Black...

"My reaction to the COVID-15 is, ‘Oh, here we go again,’” says Joy Cox, PhD, a body acceptance advocate, program development analyst at...

How should we think about our bodies after this stressful past year? CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the power...

...It doesn’t have to be like this, though. “You are enough; your body is enough,” said Joy Cox, who studies weight stigma at Rutgers...

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...