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Dr.Joy ☀️
@drjoyacox.bsky.social
Unapologetic Black Girl 💁🏾‍♀️
Body Justice Advocate ✊🏾
BA✔️ MA✔️ PhD✔️
Author of “Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own.” 📖
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Fat Girls in Black Bodies turns 5 this year! 🎉

It has been an absolute honor and privilege to talk about the issues of weight stigma through the lens of the Black femme experience.

I had no idea when I wrote the book it would make such an impact.

The work continues! ✊🏾
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September 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
1. Ribbon in the Sky - Stevie Wonder (tears & goosebumps)
2. That’s the Way of the World - Earth, Wind, and Fire (tears)
3. Lift Off - Jay Z & Beyoncé (really just Beyoncé’s part lol) (tears)
5. What song, no matter how many times you listen to it, gives you goosebumps or tear up?
September 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Reposted by Dr.Joy ☀️
The perfect name for this little cute fur baby is….
Wolverine…. 🥰
July 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
On this day 20 years ago we lost one of the greatest voices to ever grace a mic.

LUTHER. ❤️
July 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
From the first stroke of the piano til the last. ❤️ #blackmusicmonthchallenge

@stillnaima.bsky.social this challenge has been so much fun! I always watched but never participated!

open.spotify.com/track/1Y5B1v...
June 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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June 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Was jamming the other night and these came on back to back. Like peanut butter and jelly! 💕#blackmusicmonthchallenge
June 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Pretty sure this should be on the list! #blackmusicmonthchallenge

open.spotify.com/track/7f1Dmr...
June 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
My jam! I sing all the parts and ad libs…🫶🏾
#blackmusicmonthchallenge

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June 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I’d be remiss if I didn’t share at least one song of the man who played such a pivotal role in my life. 6/25/2009 changed my life more than I expected.

Gone but definitely not forgotten. ❤️ #RIPMJ

open.spotify.com/track/6XYbMG...
Baby Be Mine
Michael Jackson · Thriller · Song · 1982
open.spotify.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The way I played this album out! Always wished this was more. #blackmusicmonthchallenge

open.spotify.com/track/6k1ANP...
June 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Gotta sit this one out cause I was just a teenager with one house phone and wasn’t no way my mama was letting me put ANYTHING on that answering machine besides “thank you for calling, please leave a message after the beep.” 🤷🏾‍♀️😂

#blackmusicmonthchallenge
Back before text was the default, your outgoing vociemail/answering machine message was serious business.

It was your opportunity to tell people what kind of energy you were on. It was a statement.

For Day 23 of the #BlackMusicMonthChallenge, share the song for your answering machine background.
June 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Can’t tell me I ain’t been to Oz when this song come on!
#blackmusicmonthchallenge

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June 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This is still one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. It ain’t quiet storming if this ain’t on the playlist! 💕 #blackmusicmonthchallenge

open.spotify.com/track/1l69V1...
June 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
If you listened long enough, they probably played this twice!
#blackmusicmonthchallenge

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June 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
When your summer sounds like cookouts, family reunions and Spades 🖤 #blackmusicmonthchallenge

open.spotify.com/track/6korvx...
June 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
What’s wild is how all of this is being framed.

Every story shared showed that those kids are suffering from fat shaming & internalized weight stigma, yet changing THOSE problems are never addressed.

WeGovy carries the same cycling impacts folks been talking about for decades.
For these teens, obesity became a painful physical and emotional burden — the persistent social stigma of their condition isolating them from their peers. A weight-loss drug reshaped their lives reut.rs/4ebS1L3
June 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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June 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Happy #Juneteenth y’all!✊🏾
June 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Looking forward to digging into this! I appreciate being thought of and my words included. 💕
June 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
June 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I told my sister this was about Jesus and she sang it in the church. It tracks lol…#blackmusicmonthchallenge

open.spotify.com/track/07M76e...
June 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I sing this with my whole chest now…#blackmusicmonthchallenge

open.spotify.com/track/6BixR2...
June 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM