Body positivity ... the Black female body (in all its shapes) has been dehumanised, mammified, hypersexualised, and fetishised since the days of slavery, by the patriarchy and by white society.

On social media, for example, body positivity is often exemplified by thin white women with bodies that society deems socially acceptable. The bodies that are most marginalized then continue to be ...

This is because the body positivity movement has flooded ... a time might dilute their message. Plus, many white activists believed that because Black communities and other communities of colour ...