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When TikTok user, Slim Kim, posted a video expressing how much she loves ‘being skinny,’ she set off a wave of internet discourse. What’s the line between loving your body and dog-whistling fatphobia? This week, host Brittany Luse is joined by authors Emma Specter and Kate Manne to find out: what’s so wrong with loving being skinny?

Then, Brittany takes goes on a field trip to the Anime NYC convention. She and IBAM producer Alexis Williams venture out to find out how generations of Black folks have found comfort, confidence, and fandom in the genre.

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