As gym-bunny bloggers aspire towards big bums and fashion popularises black body shapes,will ethnic-minority women remember how to savor their bodies once the trend is over?I can’t remember when I stopped hearing the phrase “Does my behind look big in this?” But the question makes my skin crawl. I think of that weird scene in Bridget Joness Diary where her (very small) behind slides down towards the camera on a fireman’s pole.
Vogue established in 2014 that big bums were back in fashion, while in 2015 the Guardian asked whether big lips were the new bushy forehead. What isn’t often mentioned is how these “trends” are intimately tied to black people’s bodies, or like my own.
How I feel now as a curvy black woman seems to be a sweet glimpse of how white people enjoy felt for decadesContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com