Thick and Thin: A coming of age story about friends, boys, and body image in 90s L.A. - Softcover

Name: Thick and Thin: A coming of age story about friends, boys, and body image in 90s L.A.
Author: Strings, Sabrina
ISBN: 9798997041809

Strings, Sabrina

9798997041809: Thick and Thin: A coming of age story about friends, boys, and body image in 90s L.A.

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ISBN 13: 9798997041809

Verlag: Firestring Books, 2026

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Seventeen-year-old Sabrina has always felt at home in her body-until the world around her starts telling a different story. In 1990s Los Angeles, everybody seems to have an opinion: boys, classmates, family, friends, and trusted adults. About her body. About her hair. About what makes a Black girl beautiful, desirable, respectable, or too much. Sabrina and her friends are pulled into a world of diets, beauty rules, first crushes, public humiliation, and the impossible demand to be thick enough to be wanted, but thin enough to be approved. Set against the bright heat of L.A., THICK AND THIN is a sharp, heartfelt coming-of-age memoir about friendship, Black girlhood, body image, hair, hunger, and the struggle to hold on to yourself when everyone has an idea of who you should become.

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Sabrina Strings, PhD, is a researcher and writer whose work examines race, gender, and embodiment in science, media, and medicine. She has been featured in dozens of outlets, including BBC News, NPR, HuffPost, NowThis!, Essence, Vogue, The Washington Post, TIME, and The New York Times. She is the author of the award-winning books Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (NYU Press, 2019) and The End of Love: Racism, Sexism & the Death of Romance (Beacon Press, 2024). Her television appearances include the Netflix docuseries The Black Beauty Effect and HBO Max's TV on the Edge. Follow her latest work on X.com @Sastrings, Instagram @sabrina.strings, and at sabrinastrings.com.

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