SkinnyTok has had many names. Pro-ana. Thinspiration. Now this. The goals have not changed, just the packaging. In this episode, Anshita and Suchi argue that SkinnyTok is a visual regime that turns hunger into a monster, thinness into a moral virtue, and women's bodies into a site of pure aesthetics while ignoring that this aesthetic was never race-neutral to begin with. They also get into the girly girl discourse, commodity feminism, and why self-care went from Audre Lorde's radical political act to a white woman's Stanley cup run. The episode title is a direct quote from a SkinnyTok creator. It tells you everything you need to know about what this movement actually thinks of the women it's targeting.

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