Sabrina Strings

May 21, 2024 | mdpi.com | Sabrina Strings |Caryn Bell

1. IntroductionIn 2013, the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to classify obesity as a disease. The decision was controversial. Although the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had labeled obesity a disease back in 1998, the AMA is the most influential medical organization in the U.S. Therefore, many expected that their assignation that obesity is a disease would, well, carry more weight.

Mar 12, 2024 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Sabrina Strings

Complaints about the current state of dating tend to revolve around the impersonal, gamelike behavior that apps such as Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble encourage. In theory, sifting through hundreds of profiles within minutes is supposed to be a convenient means of finding the perfect partner you may never have bumped into offline—or a lively, empowering way to occasionally dip into the dating pool without making any serious commitment.

Feb 25, 2024 | sandiegouniontribune.com | Lisa Deaderick |Sabrina Strings |Lisa Deaderick Us

In her 2019 book, “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia,” Sabrina Strings contends with our collective fixation on thinness, tracing its development to race — specifically to anti-Blackness. “Fatphobia is the fear and aversion to fat people, and this really developed in the Western world as a result of the creation of race science. Slavery…really started to take off in the late 14th, early 15th century,” she said in a previous interview with the Union-Tribune.

Jul 14, 2023 | historynewsnetwork.org | Steve Fraser |Richard Ford |Clementine Fujimura |Sabrina Strings

; 7/14/2023 Roundup In Post-Soviet Russia, Children Have Been Propaganda Instruments by Clementine Fujimura Russian regimes since the fall of Communism have inherited and created crises of mass orphanage; their policy responses to parentless children have been informed by politics and nationalism at the expense of child welfare. Removal of orphans from Ukraine to Russia is just the latest instance.

Feb 2, 2023 | journalofethics.ama-assn.org | Sabrina Strings

AbstractThis article describes how size-based health and beauty ideals made their way into the medical field through the eugenics movement of the 19th to 20th centuries and were validated using so-called “standard weight” tables. They became even more mainstream with the 20th-century tool to replace standard weight tables: body mass index (BMI). BMI, then, is a continuation of white supremacist embodiment norms, racializing fat phobia under the guise of clinical authority.