Reimagining Nutrition Narratives For Fat Black Children Like Ma’Khia Bryant

Lucy Aphramor
6 min readJun 11, 2021

We are not born desiring or rejecting bodies according to their particular dimensions.

We are not born loathing or fearing or being comfortable with our own and other people’s thin or fat bodies. We are educated into these feelings.

In other words, our body responses, which register as sensations, affect…

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Lucy Aphramor

Lucy Aphramor is a radical dietitian and performance poet. They are Associate Professor of Gender, Power, and The Right to Food at CAWR, Coventry University UK.