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Strange Fruit #201: "No Fats, No Femmes," and the Politics of Desirability
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:26:25
Publish Date: 2017-07-07 14:46:29
Description: Scroll through any gay dating app and you'll come across the words. "No fats, no femmes." It says a lot about which kinds of bodies are seen as desirable and which are not. Especially in gay black spaces, where a simple "preference" is often anything but simple. Artist Jamal Lewis is making a documentary exploring this phenomenon. We speak to him this week about his own dating experiences, and the politics of desirability.
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