My Family Shamed Me About My Relationship With Food

The topic of eating disorders in the Black community has been taboo for too long

Zuva Seven
ZORA
Published in
6 min readAug 27, 2019

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Illustration: Jay Bendt

“I have to ask, do you really think if you eat that, you will lose weight?”

I looked up to see my father fixated on my position. “Well?” He asked again, voice inflected in the way it does when he is becoming impatient…

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Zuva Seven
ZORA
Writer for

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